by Dr. Heather Johnstone,
PhD. RN, BC, APN, AMP-C, RYT
Director Global College of Medicine


The Threat Hanging over Our Heads

Most Americans are not aware of a very powerful threat hanging over our heads. It's not terrorism, oil shortages or some other political issue. The clearest and most pressing danger lies in the fact that every second American has at least one chronic illness, while 60 million people suffer from multiple chronic conditions. Despite advances in modern medicine our health is worse today than ever before in our history! There is no doubt that sickness affects us directly, causing untold suffering and hardship. I'm here to tell you how the situation got so bad and what you can do about it. Please read on.

In the year 2000, the U.S. population was 276 million. Nearly half of the population - 125 million Americans - lived with some type of chronic condition. About 60 million lived with multiple chronic conditions. Examples of chronic conditions are diabetes, cancer, glaucoma and heart disease. The number of people with chronic conditions is growing at an alarming rate.

So Why Are We Sick?

I'll be brutally honest here so there are no misunderstandings: We get sick because our lack of health is economically profitable for a lot of big companies and shareholders. Including:

* The food industry with all the ‘designer' junk foods and beverages that hold no nutritional value and actually make us fat and sick

* All the polluting industries that fill our lives and bodies with harmful chemicals and toxins

The ‘sick care' industry figured out long ago that there's a lot more money to be made in treating symptoms with drugs and surgeries in expensive hospitals than in patient education, prevention and natural medicine. There's a lot of money to be made in making and keeping us sick. As professor Paul Zane Pilzer explains in his best-selling book, The Wellness Revolution: "Incredibly powerful economic forces are preventing people from taking control of their health and actually encouraging them to gain weight - forces so powerful that nothing short of a revolution will be able to stop them."

Since birth we've been bombarded with millions of ads that turn us into happily paying consumers of the very things that make us sick. Now the only way for us to become and stay healthy for life is to train ourselves to see through all the commercial deception and brainwashing, and learn how to be healthy. This is what we believe at Health Seekers.

We cannot expect a solution from those who don't have our best interest at heart. More people die each year in the United States from medical errors than from highway accidents, breast cancer or AIDS, a federal advisory panel reported. The report from the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine cited studies showing between 44,000 and 98,000 people die each year because of mistakes by medical professionals. This report was in 1999... since then the number of deaths from medical errors has steadily increased.