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To: Archie Meeties who wrote (160380)	10/26/2008 10:51:55 PM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

Next time you come in for a routine screening or annual checkup, I suggest you preface the encounter with your physician with that line. I have many times. He agrees. He thinks the system doesn't provide enough incentives and he has various good ideas to remedy the problem without compromising whatever he believes health care delivers. Actualy, why would you come in for screening at all? What argument were you making? If you ever come down with an illness, lets say, bad cough and a fever, just repeat the above to yourself and stay away from health care. Good point. Don't go to hospitals, That's where the diseases are. Those don't constitute sufficient cause but they do belabor the system and shoot up its cost. Maybe you would like to get an ambulance ride at your expense to attend to a hangnail. Ah, that's it. It's at someone else's expense. It's not going to help your longevity. Longevity is independent of such considerations. Longevity, of the upper quint has been constant over thousands of years. The average has risen due to rising world wealth, not because of the advent of health care. See how little sense you're making? You haven't addressed anything I've said. And again, just making assertions without any backing. You haven't refuted one of my assertions. You only say how wrong I am. I've said over and over that health is more of a function of wealth than it is of health care, and I've given solid reasons why. Apparently, you argue by appeal to authority, something link the truth at the end of the linkbow. That doesn't impress me especially when I can see how often the link goes to a pack of lies like the ones cooked by WHO for suckers like you. I argue from logic that depends upon commonly available observations. Apparently, you reject what your own eyes see, in order to worship at some pseudo's self image. Better learn to take the rose colored glasses off and get the truth for yourself. You'd have to be blithering idiot to think that doctors can maintain your health. If you're doing that, you're in for a rude awakening. By the time they discover you have a meaningful problem, it's not often they can do anything for you, and if they can, they'll leave you worse than dead. Half my clients are physicians. I get the full review on a regular basis. It ain't pretty. I advise you to avoid the health care system as much as possible and learn how to care for yourself.

To: Archie Meeties who wrote (160380)	10/26/2008 10:54:33 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	Respond to of 306849

Archi, you both have a horse in this race. medical care helps, all else being equal, but the problem is that the SAD (standard american diet) is just horrible. no health care system can undo what SAD does to our health. the average aa/epa ratio for the japanese is 1.5. american ratios are typically 10 times that. why is the aa/epa ratio important? aa = arachidonic acid = the basic building block for cellular inflammation epa = reduction in the amount of aa produced and increases some anti-inflammatory responses. americans are an inflamed society and our bodies are literally in self attack mode 24 hours a day. if you don't think inflammation is bad, i suggest you ponder why the best heart attack prevention drug is aspirin - and anti-inflammatory. joslin diabetes center recommends an anti-inflammatory diet. the zone diet is, imho, the best anti-inflammatory diet and is about 30% better than of joslin's recommendations.