I want to preface this week with a disclosure.  For the next few weeks I am going to be challenging many of the core values you may have for health.  My goal is NOT to make you believe what I am saying.  It is to get you thinking about why you believe what you believe.  By researching your beliefs, you will either strengthen the faith in what you are doing or realize that you need to turn what you are doing in around in some or all areas of your life.  Regardless by taking an active role in your health and the health of the people you love, everyone will be healthier.  

Research everything about your health.  Question your Doctors, your medications, your procedures, everything you see advertised, everything that relates to your health and/or your family’s health.  Do your homework (not just medical based websites and books) until you are certain that you know what you are doing and it is what you want to do.

Look around and as a society you will see that we are going in the wrong direction.  As a population the US has never been sicker, fatter or looking for a quick fix as much as we are today.  Most of our health problems are caused by our lifestyles and by changing only our lifestyles we can fix the problems as opposed to just suppressing symptoms.

Unfortunately as a society we have 2 major problems in the United States that has led to our health crisis. 

First, we have been too trusting of our Doctors.  We are under the assumption that they know what it will take to get us better; therefore, we should follow their orders.  Sadly in many cases this ends up being a symptom wild goose chase.  In many cases it is not the Doctors fault.  The medical profession is falsely called “Health Care” when in reality it is “Sick Care”.  Doctors are trained to recognize symptoms and diseases and are trained that drugs and surgery are the easiest solution.  Instead of recognizing that symptoms are NOT the problem (symptoms are just they way the body expresses that there is a problem in the body) Doctors see symptoms as the problem; therefore, getting rid of the symptoms problem solved.  Right?  

Second, we have been too trusting of the FDA and government agencies that are supposed to research and control the products that we put in/on our bodies such as: medications, food, food additives, and other products.  The FDA is supposed to be testing products to make sure they are safe BEFORE they are put on the market.  Instead products are approved as quickly as possible with little to no research and then if problems start being reported they will investigate (it could be many years before a dangerous product is pulled from the public.)  This article is very interesting articles.mercola.com.

The problem with the FDA is so bad that the FDA indicted itself.  Read more about the indictment here: www.lef.org