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Do you work to prevent disease
or do you treat it when it happens?
I caught an interesting program the other night where the argument was being made that if we worked harder (individuals, doctors, health agencies) and focused on preventive measures we wouldn't have to spend so much money on medicine and hospital visits.
I have been actively looking into all that myself. I have had multiple surgeries for crohns disease and taken years and years of medication but did not have the healthiest of diets and probably not as active as I should be. It has been my experience that some doctors are quick to prescribe a medication but I'd rather do something to heal my body than have to pop a bunch of pills, whatever that lifestyle change is and know where I went wrong to begin with.
Preventive medicine is a common practice in Germany and China, that I know for a fact (I'm sure many other countries have the same view point). Interestingly enough these same countries have a far lower percentage of heart disease, cancers, overweight individuals, etc.
However, preventive medicine isn't the only thing these countries have in common, they also tend to walk /bike almost everywhere, follow a more homeopathic view point then the USA and eat food that is by enlarge chemical/precervative free as opposed to us.
