Don't depend on doctor for your personal health

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A Farmers grow fruits and vegetables for a living. Mechanics repair vehicles for wages, doctors are supposed to heal sick patients for a living. But, why are there so many sick people in advanced society and doctors are not the answers to better health.

Here is why.

Most primary care physicians have 7-22 minutes to spend with each patient, according to Dr Christine Gerbstadt, a staff physician at Walter Reed National Military medical center in Bethesda. With such short time in a personal encounter with patients, there is no time to educate the patients about life style change and diet. Giving them drugs then become a quick fix to sickness,

Only 21% of the US medical schools offer medical students the recommended 25 hours of nutrition education. (2015 report in Journal of Biomedical Education) On the average US medical schools offer only 19.6 hours of nutrition education across four years of medical schools, according to 2010 report in Academic Medicine.

Doctors receive failing grade on nutrition knowledge. According to a 2016 study in the International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health assessed the basic nutritional knowledge of fourth year medical/osteopathic school graduates entering a pediatric programe and found that on the average the incoming interns answered only 52 % of the 18 questions correctly.

With such poor focus and negligence in nutrition education, no wonder the cost of health care sky rocketed. A lifestyle of consuming convenient foods which are saturated with chemicals, preservatives  and toxins. A stressful working life, lack of exercise and insufficient  sleep contributed to  premature deaths and sicknesses of all sort.

 Prevention is the key to better health as a whole to society at large.

Allow me to cite some examples.

Eric Storm(1897-2000) a young man who lived in 1920s in Java working with Butterworth & Co, a commodity trader. After world war 1  made a killing in commodity due to chronic shortage of sugar, tea, coffee, rice and rubber . He had a heart attack at age 34  and weight  230 lbs was a compulsive drinker  and smoker

After this close call with death, he turned to life style change, diet study longevity . He survived a further 69 years and died peacefully at age 103 in Sydney  24 Feb 2000.   He followed  the Hippocrates(460-370 BC) wisdom of   Let your food be your remedy and your remedy be your food.

Second example is  John D Rockeller ( 8^th July 1839-23^rd May 1937)  98 years old.

In 1901, the Rockefeller institute  for Medical Research  was officially launched first of its kind in America , a  year later Rockefeller add another $ 1 Million to the original $200 million endowment to build up and equip a major laboratory on upper East side of New York city.

John maintaining a basic distrust in modern medicine  while spending millions to sponsor its advance, depended a homeopath  Dr H F Biggar as a personal physician.

( pg 60 The Rockefeller ,An American Dynasty  by Peter  Collier & David  Horowitz)   

Just as John D Rockeller, did not trust modern medicine, the smarter doctors turn to alternative source for health maintenance. Here is the details.

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In the mid-1960s, more than 7,000 students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill took a personality test that included questions measuring their tendency to be optimistic or pessimistic. While most of the participants fell somewhere in the middle, 1,630 were considered to be pessimists and 923 to be optimists. Tracking them over the next four decades, researchers discovered that the most pessimistic study participants had a 42% greater likelihood of dying from any cause than the most optimistic participants. These results were published in the December 2006 issue of the Mayo Clinic Proceedings medical journal.

Just as Eric Storm found health outside the conventional western trained road to better health and quality life, you are better off doing the same.