This article, opinion only applies to doctors and patients who do not know how to heal but only prolong suffering, disease.
The health crisis is caused by poor diet not a lack of doctors, insurance or pharmaceutical drugs. On national TV, a woman, her disease, crisis, lack of insurance is exploited (good marketing tool) as she cries out she is going to die because she can no longer afford her cholesterol, blood pressure lowering medication.
What she does not say is that her medication only works as long as she stays on the medication. Once she goes off, her cholesterol, blood pressure skyrockets back to previously high levels. This is a common occurrence, because cholesterol, blood pressure lowering medication only treats the symptoms (high cholesterol, high blood pressure) not the cause (poor diet) which is why the symptom, disease keeps repeating, as do office visits, prescriptions, insurance, etc. for the rest of your life, bank account. Prescription medications often have serious side effects that get worse with time, use.
Her disease is caused by poor diet (high protein, high fat, low vegetables, fruit) unless she is the exception to the rule that high protein, high fat diets, in the extreme, cause high cholesterol, atherosclerosis, arteriosclerosis, high blood pressure, tumors, cancer, etc. (see explanation below, last paragraph). Nor is she or her doctors an exception to rule that the majority of high protein high fat diseases can be cured by eating less high protein, high fat, animal foods and more vegetarian, low protein, low fat and high carbohydrate, (especially fruits, vegetables).
Poor diet tends to cause most disease, especially in America (health, disease crisis). This is common sense that requires no scientific, laboratory experiments or public or private funding. The cure for most disease is not around the corner as most disease is chronic in nature taking, months, years and or decades of poor, inappropriate diet to develop, fester and therefore cannot cure in a short amount of time via some special, magical medicine.
The idea that one can manage and or cure a dietary disease with medication is dumb and dumber. Medication, pharmaceutical drugs do have their place, but their place, like all medicine is not everywhere.
This woman does not need to cry. She needs to close her eyes and focus on the real issue, that she is uneducated when it comes to biology, diet and nutrition. She and her doctors need to read a good book (Hot and Cold Health) on the subject. While there may be many books, authors, doctors, etc. on diet, nutrition, etc. there is only one body, therefore only one way to eat, exercise, sleep, etc.
Doctors who do not cure but only prolong disease and are highly paid are dumb, arrogant and greedy. When was the last time that your doctor sat down with you and discussed your diet, meal by meal, breakfast, lunch and dinner and then proceeded to make corrections, food by food: protein, fat, grains, vegetables, fruits, etc? When was the last time your doctor told you to start with dietary changes first, before trying medication.
The health crisis is now thirty plus years old and still growing, getting worse not because of lack of doctors, medication and insurance but instead dumb and dumber.
High protein, high fat diets, in the extreme, tend to cause high protein, high fat symptoms, diseases. All blood passes through the liver. The liver stores, cleanses (removes excess fat, cholesterol, uric acid, etc.)and releases the blood. High protein, high fat (thick, hard, sticky nutrients)diets in excess thicken the blood, which in turn, thickens, clogs and weakens the liver. Less fat, cholesterol, uric acid, etc. is removed, more stays in the blood (high cholesterol, uric acid), arteries (plaque, atherosclerosis, arteriosclerosis, high blood pressure) reducing blood flow to the extremties, head, arms and legs causing pain, weakness, inflammation, etc.