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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bentway who wrote (22068)	6/19/2017 3:07:24 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362590

Two success stories I can give you. I went on the 'caveman diet', lost 50 lbs. and now take 80% or more less insulin than I used to. If I'd gone on it 20 years earlier, I might not even have diabetes. A buddy recently diagnosed with Type II diabetes did the same, lost some weight, and now takes no insulin at all. You stole my best example. I nearly posted it a couple of times today alone. I didn't, in part, because I know you have T2D and didn't want to offend you. T2D can be reversed via lifestyle. In large part it can be avoided via lifestyle. As can obesity and various addictions and other chronic diseases. That high blood pressure I mentioned in the post to which you responded--an anecdote from thirty years ago--does not require medication as long as my weight is down. When it goes up, which it intermittently does, I take medication. I adjust that myself. I'm pretty sure I have escaped diabetes via a low-carb diet. My A1C has sat at 5.5 forever. Economic systems are about incentives. There's a lot to be said about providing health care free at the point of use for people who are stricken from out of nowhere, but embedded in there is a perverse incentive to fall back on it when the need could have been obviated with better choices. That's a form of free-ridership and a very costly one. --------------- Why does the American health care system cost so much? It is because 87 percent of the total health care expenditure is for the management of chronic disease. Contrary to popular opinion, the majority of this expense (67 percent) is for people under 65. The effect of chronic disease is quite striking. It accounts for almost 90 percent of all hospital admissions. Over 90 percent of prescription costs are for the treatment of chronic disease. An astonishing 76 percent of all visits to a physician involve the treatment of chronic illness. The medical cost for all of this therapy is measured in billions of dollars per year. Fortunately, almost 75 percent of chronic illnesses can be improved or cured by changing only four aspects of our lifestyle. dailyherald.com