Lifestyle Diseases

It is really pretty simple: Most of the diseases we suffer are caused by our poor choice of foods and our lack of exercise. I have heard it said, cleverly, that "Heart disease is not a disease we "catch", but one we eat."

If we are what we eat, then our health says a lot about our unwise choices concerning the junk we eat. (I have worked in a Walmart meat department and their deli, so I know a lot about what Americans, in particular, eat.)

I have watched a lot of change in American lifestyles in my 63 years. I saw fast foods come onto the scene and experienced the before-and-after of the total domination of the automobile and its disastrous effect on our health.

A lot of our lifestyle diseases could be blamed on the automobile and our idolatrous slavery to it. I won't go that far because I believe in personal responsibility for our outcomes.

Nobody is forced to drive two or three blocks on a sunny day to do short errands. They could easily walk, but they don't.Because they fall out of practice, they become less and less capable of walking comfortably.

Like they say: We don't wear out, we rust out.

It doesn't help to be eating terrifically rich foods that add many pounds to the task of carrying ourselves around, thus damaging our joints and inviting arthritis.

Opportunities for getting sufficient exercise to maintain our health are all around us, but -- more and more -- we are seduced by advertisers who offer some new "convenience" or toy to buy to prevent out feet ever touching the ground.

I am thinking here of the ATV, the Harley-Davidson, and even the Segway Transporter (I've got a funny story to tell about a local retiree whose Segway battery died, leaving him stranded at the bottom of the hill he lives on.)

Linked below, you will find pages that deal with individual diseases of civilization, which better expresses what these diseases are.

On these Web pages, linked below, I provide expert testimony to prove my contention that these are diseases we can, for the most part, opt out of by changing our diet and our lazy lifestyle.

While those who are totally enthralled by their automobile and the pleasure they get from eating what they do may see my proposed solutions to their health problems (or those that are yet to arrive)as sacrifices, I disagree.

Looked at from the broader perspective of Time and the Law of Averages, anyone who is not willing to make even small changes in their diet and lifestyle in order to prevent almost-guaranteed heart disease, diabetes, or cancer in the future is making a very risky bet.

Although I am not a doctor or medical researcher, I can read and understand what these experts say. I have found in my own experience that what they say and prescribe has produced good results for me. I'm just passing along this carefully selected information in hopes it will save you the pain and expense many other good people suffered.

Low Fat Diet Plan -- The Key to Cutting Risk of the King of Lifestyle Diseases

High Blood Pressure

What Causes Cancer?

Cause of Prostate Cancer

Diabetes Symptoms

Pre-Diabetes

Osteoporosis

Major Depression -- Often Curable Without Drugs

Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease

Main Cause of Stress

The China Study