What is dementia? Is it a specific disease or is it the loss of cognitive function: memory, processing, reasoning? Actually it is both. There are various diagnostic names that the medical profession uses when the patients are assessed. The main thing we need to remember is that
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According to the Commonwealth Fund, which ranks healthcare systems worldwide, the United States has the worst health care system among peer nations (dollar for dollar). In a nutshell, the United States spends nearly twice as much as other wealthy nations has the lowest life expectancy
Read more →Corn is the most highly subsidized crop grown in the United States. That makes corn products very economical for the consumer and industrial farmers. Farmers use High Fructose Corn Syrup as a sweetener. There are several problems with this: 92% of corn is genetically modified Mercury (a
Read more →In the more than two years since the lock-down began, more and more people are being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. In fact, diabetes has increased 16% since 2020. Data from the International Diabetes Federation shows that 10% of the world’s population aged 20-70 now has diabetes.
Read more →Health care cost have risen 17.5% per year since 1970. That is a huge increase. What do we have to show for it? US mortality rate is the highest of all comparable countries. Hospital admissions for preventable diseases are more frequent in the US than in comparable
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