Why our health matters

There is 3 V's ( visiblity, value, and validation ) in a business.
Visibility is the awareness in the community of who you are
Value is that we are not a discount store, we show caring, and love to our customers.
Validation is read in books such as Andrew Weil's "Why our health matters", it tells you the future of health care = integrative medicine.

In his book, Dr. Weil breaks in 3 parts
Part I
Where we are
"I now understand that when you lose your health, nothing else that you have matters. All you can think about is being well again."
Why is health care so expensive?
1. we give little care to prevention of disease and promotion of health. The whole industry of health care is geared toward intervention in established disease- much of it preventable.
"An ounce of prevention is worth a lb of cure"
2. intervention is expensive due to costly technology.

3 Myths
1. Because America has the most expensive health care in the world, it must have the best.
2. our medical technology is our greatest asset
3. our medical school excel at creating world's finest physicians.

Part II
Where we need to be
Imagine that a doctor visit of the future would be like this: A worried mother calls her family doctor and tells his receptionist that her son is sick. The receptionist offers the appointment for later that day and adds that for a moderate extra fee that doctor can make a house call if necessary. (Reminding me of Little house of a praire)
Reverse
Trend #1 Deterioration of Medical Philosphy and Practice- The need for low-tech, high-touch medicine.... teach people how not to get sick in the first place.
Today far more people take prescribed medicine than ever before. For example, at least one million children, mostly boys, take Ritalin and Adderall for ADHD. Even more people, old and young, take antidepressants, and pharmacists fill more then 35 million prescriptions for sleep medicines
Trend #2 Failure to Provide Health Care of All
Trend #3 The Growing Influence of Money

Doctors of the Future
"The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease... "Thomas Edison

Medicine of the Future
"Alternative", "Integrative" medicine
Traditional and modern chinese medicine. Mind/Body, nutrition, Dietary Supplementation, physical activity.

Part III
How to get there
Preventive Benefits of Dietary Modification
- Risk of cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and many other chronic diseases can be reduced with adequate intake of fruits and vegetables, teas, chocolate, onion, broccoli, soy.

Preventive Benefits of Dietary Supplementation
- Antioxidants
- lutein
- B-complex
- Selenium
- Vitamin C
- Vitamin D

Preventive Benefit of Exercise

Preventive Benefit of Stress Management

I like Dr. Weil's vision. His vision is very similar to market america's.
If your health is important to you, you would go for prevention instead of intervention...before it's too late..


My experiences...
Why is that people drink coffee day and night and continues to do so even though they understand perhaps I should have drink chamomile tea and take herbal remedy such as DGL to increase mucous lining of the stomach.
Why is that people don't believe in probiotic and says they will talk to their doctors and decide.
Why is there so many people taking prescription pain killers and can't get off of them.
So many people have allergies due to diets..... allrgies includes sneezing, congestion, skin problems, etc...

Betty