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HEART ATTACKS AND SURGERY
About 50% of all heart attacks occur in men and women who are under the age
of 65 and two out of three survivors may never make a complete recovery!
Everyday insurance companies payout $25,000 for each and every heart bypass
surgical operation but they may resist paying out just $500 for visits to
legitimate weight loss centers, dieticians or nutritionists!
Society or social pressures and advertisers, in general, encourage unhealthy
eating habits. Medical schools should try teaching future doctors how to impart
to their patients the fundamentals of healthy eating habits and exercise and not
just rely on learning how to treat symptoms or sugically repair heart problems.
Remember, the healthier we are the less we may even need doctors,
consequently leading to less work for doctors and surgeons! The question
critics may ask is, "Are doctors sometimes as greedy as many other segments of
the population in capitalist America?"
Too many heart surgeons may still possibly rely too heavily on the scalpel
or surgical knife. It earns them 20 million dollars a day in heart surgeries!
Who wants to always promote healthy eating habits when you have so much profit
potential otherwise? Surgery does not stop heart disease and conceivably may
even possibly speed up the process!
Furthermore, patients may also be told they need a heart bypass operation
when possibly they may not need one! The point is why possibly die on the
operating table from heart surgery when an earlier diagnosis, suggested
alternative treatments and/or the encouragement of healthier eating habits and
lifestyle changes may save your life without surgery?
The "conventional" way of healing today is to cut out the disease or blast
it with drugs. Bypass surgery has been suspect time and time again, even
scientifically "disproven" in some critics' eyes! Remember, questionable or
unproven surgical techniques may make your risk of dying up to eight times
greater than your risk of dying from the disease itself!
SUPPLEMENTAL SOURCE: NUTRITION ACTION HEALTH LETTER OCTOBER 1995
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