Paradigm Shift

Let's face it: America is sick, and getting sicker by the day.  How can we have the "best" health care system in the world, yet have some of the sickest people on the planet?  Modern medicine is constantly coming up with new treatments, yet we continue to get sicker - why?  Do we not use the treatments?  The amount of money spent tells us we are.  Have we stopped listening to our doctors?  Drug usage tells us we haven't.  So, why are we still getting sicker?

There are a variety of reasons why our societal health has continued to degrade over the past half century.  Some say it's all about dietary choices and lack of activity.  Others will tout statistics about farming practices and poor food quality.  Still more will talk about toxicity in our environment that mucks up our internal systems to where they can't function correctly.  I see all of these as problems, but they stem from one bigger problem: our reliance on the FDA, USDA, CDC, EPA, and AMA to tell us what we should do and how we should do it.  Plain and simply, we've given up our responsibility to make good decisions about how to treat our external and internal environment and placed that right squarely on the shoulders of huge bureaucratic machines whose interest is not in making us healthy, but in keeping themselves in business.

We no longer use common sense to take care of ourselves and the environment around us; we rely on others to clean up the messes that we have created while we blindly followed the advice of those who supposedly know best.  Lack of personal and corporate responsibility is what has degraded our health to the point where our newborn life expectancy has started decreasing, many children now take medications that would have been abhorrent to parents only a few years ago, and chronic conditions like diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease are running rampant.  We've been acting like sheep, herded by the sheepdogs who were supposed to keep us on the right path only to find out the sheepdogs were really wolves.

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