I think that fortunately we are on the brink of throwing out some really stupid ideas about health care, diet etc. For one thing, we need to look much harder at drug prescriptions and their interactions. For another, we need to finally do studies on people with different metabolisms...your dietary needs vary considerably depending on your ethnic heritage etc. and most of us are quite mixed...read Metabolic Typing Diet or something like that..some of this research has been done by dentists...if you eat the wrong food for your type, which could be the right food for another type, you will be almost guaranteed to get diabetes preceeded by insulin resistance, which is associated with all sorts of heart catastrophes. Then they will give you all sorts of drugs to reduce the symptoms while your body continues to degenerate. You will exhaust either the country's finances or your own. Read also Dr. Schwarzbein on diabetes. Basically, some people, primarily of northern ancestry, evolved to eat heavier proteins and fats and fewer fruits and some vegetables. People of equatorial or mediterranean ancestry evolved to eat more vegetables, grains, fruits etc. Some people are more balanced. So people will say I feel so great on the Atkins diet and I am losing weight by the day..others will say it made me sick and I lost muscle mass. Because they have different needs. But people are starting to understand this..that Greek diets work great for Greeks and Chinese diets work great for Chinese etc. They don't quite yet understand why Eskimo diets work great for Eskimos or they don't want to believe it. And they keep studying those poor Pima Indians when they need to get them back on their ancestral diets and cure their diabetes.

There are more and more things you can do on your own. For one, find a good naturopathic doctor. For two, get a blood sugar monitor and test your reaction to various foods and your overall stability.   For three, get your insulin (not blood sugar) levels checked when you have a physical. For four, you can get your stress levels checked through Diagnostechs or Great Smokey Labs..all sorts of panels for various hormones. At least get some baseline stuff.

Get fresh air. Get sunlight. Don't use flourescent lights no matter how much energy you save. They are just foul. Feed your children real meals when they are hungry instead of telling them not to ruin their appetites before dinner. That is what an appetite is for. Never ever eat trans fats and either eliminate or greatly reduce white flour and sugar. Put any discretionary income into better foods for your family rather than a larger house, fancy clothes etc.

Well, that is all for now. Health revolutions are in sight.