Who Cares About Preventative Medicine?
I cannot begin to tell you how many times I have heard folks make statements like “I will eat what I want and die happy!” I am sure we could all rationalize any bad behavior by saying things like that but it does not help the situation. When we are younger we feel indestructible and put things into our bodies that are detrimental. But as we get older we spend the rest of our lives battling to repair the damage that we did when we were younger. Hospitals and emergency rooms are fill and overflowing with sick folks who eat junk all their lives and are dying happy, right? I don’t thing so. Hospital beds are filled with the sick and dying in most cases from lifestyle related diseases and in most cases in pain. I do not mean to sound cruel, but the truth remains that there is something we could all do to curb this epidemic. The direct correlation between what you eat and how healthy you are might sound like an obvious statement to you and me, but most doctors are not taught preventative med
