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The Rising Threats To Our Health
Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith via PeakProsperity.com,
Though evidence of a looming global healthcare crisis is plainly visible, few seem to realize the consequences will be catastrophic to individuals, households and national economies.
Here is a list—by no means exhaustive—of major health issues threatening hundreds of millions of people globally.
Air & Water Pollution
Photos such as these provide graphic evidence that air and water pollution are serious health hazards in many developing nations around the world:
Source: Kyodo News
Source: Independent.co.uk
The statistics are equally horrendous: roughly 40% of all deaths in Pakistan result from polluted drinking water, 500 million people in China lack clean drinking water, and in India, 90% of human waste flows untreated into rivers.
Though the winter smog in Chinese cities is infamous, many other Asian nations suffer from equally poor or even worse air quality:
The health consequences of severe air pollution are many, and a rising number of deaths are attributable to air pollution:
(Sources)
Air and water pollution do not stop at borders, and so severe pollution in developing economies has become a health issue in neighboring developed economies as well.
Ageing Populations
As populations age, health costs rise while the working-age population that must support higher healthcare expenses declines, burdening the middle-aged workers who must support the elderly and the young. Caring for a rapidly expanding population of elderly retirees burdens governments and economies as well as households: as income is taxed to pay for care, there is less money available for other programs and investing in future productivity.
We all know why healthcare costs rise as the population of elderly retirees grows: chronic non-communicable diseases go hand in hand with age. The costs of treating these lifestyle/ageing diseases (metabolic syndrome, heart disease, high blood pressure, etc.) soar as the population and incidence of these diseases both rise.
A recent Standard & Poor’s study, Global Aging 2010: An Irreversible Truth, warns that “no other force is likely to shape the future of national economic health, public finances, and policymaking as the irreversible rate at which the world's population is aging... The cost of caring for [the elderly] will profoundly affect growth prospects and dominate public finance policy debates worldwide.” (Source)
Globally, elderly populations are rising even in developing nations.
Smoking
Over 1 billion people smoke cigarettes globally, with some 350 million smokers residing in China. Over one million deaths per year in China are attributed to smoking, but some estimates project this number rising to 3.5 million annually.
Add together air pollution and smoking, and the health consequences become even more severe. (Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoking_in_China, http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2043775,00.html)
Metabolic Syndrome (Diabesity/Obesity) and Diabetes
The scale of the global epidemic of obesity, metabolic syndrome (also known as diabesity or pre-diabetes) and diabetes are truly staggering: 100 million diabetics and 500 million pre-diabetics in China, 80 million diabetics and hundreds of millions more pre-diabetics in India, and another 100 million diabetics in the developed world. (Sources: Diabetes Is a Major Public-Health Crisis in China, No Answers in Sight for India’s Diabetes Crisis, The Global Diabetes Epidemic)
This epidemic will overwhelm a global healthcare system that is already struggling to provide care for an aging population.
The consequences of diabetes include higher mortality among those under the age of 60, with major consequences in productivity and time lost to illness:
What is particularly striking is the disconnect between statistics that claim low obesity rates in developing countries such as India and China and soaring rates of diabetes in these same countries:
Meanwhile, other sources have published estimates of overweight/obesity in China that parallel data from developed nations with equivalent rates of diabetes.
Clearly, the factors linked to metabolic syndrome—diets rich in refined foods, sugar, and unhealthy fats, a lack of exercise, etc.—are on the rise in developing nations, regardless of the supposed rate of obesity (generally defined as a body mass index (BMI) of over 30) and being overweight (generally defined as a BMI of over 25).
Competition for Resources
Though few connect global health with the rising human population, common sense suggests that the global competition for resources and the rising costs of providing basics such as clean water and air, and energy and food security, will pressure global health for purely financial reasons: if national incomes are increasingly devoted to expenditures such as military forces, energy and food security, interest due on sovereign debt, etc., relatively fewer resources will be available to fund healthcare for the rising numbers of elderly retirees and the enormous populations suffering from chronic diseases that require constant monitoring and treatment.
Many people look to technology to solve these inter-related problems. Perhaps miraculous advances in biochemistry will solve all these global health crises. But a cautious skepticism is in order, for all sorts of wondrous but costly technologies that work in the lab and small-scale experiments fail to scale, i.e. become cheap enough and reliable enough to spread quickly around the world.
Advanced technologies require vast quantities of capital, expertise and energy to spread throughout the global economy. The necessary capital and resources are precisely what will be in short supply as demands on tax revenues and social safety nets skyrocket.
The Good News: We Have Agency In This Story
Despite these concerning global trends, health is determined at the individual level. Each one of us has the ability to improve our own personal health situation -- starting right now.
In Part 2: Putting Our Health Into Our Own Hands, we explore what we can do, as individuals and households, in response to the trends discussed above. As discussed in Chris' and Adam's recent book Prosper!, one of the most important components of true wealth is Living Capital -- the most essential component of which is our own bodies. Prioritizing our investments there gives us the best foundation upon which to pursue all of our other future goals.
Click here to read Part 2 of this report (free executive summary, enrollment required for full access)
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More than 400 million with diabetes in this world, more than 1000 million prediabetic and 1 person dies every 6 seconds from diabetes.
New research is showing that GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms) are highly correlated with greatly enhanced risk for diabetes
However, diabetes can be easily prevented. Reduce your diabetes risk by more than 90% in under 3 minutes:
http://diabetesrisk.net/
Analysis revealed that over 43% people in the 30-50 years age group were diabetic in Delhi.
http://zeenews.india.com/news/health/health-news/diabetes-growing-at-ala...
Air pollution is a leading cause of insulin resistance and incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25635985
43% in the 30-50 age group are diabetic huh? Prolly need to cut back on the cumin.
Fat chance, LOL, ROFL, LMAO,,,
;-)
Actually just the opposite
http://www.doctorshealthpress.com/diabetes-tips/this-indian-spice-is-ant...
Got a link to that "new research?" While I'm not a supporter of GMO, I doubt that claim.
Here is the data linking GMOs to diabetes:
http://diabetesrisk.net/Default10.aspx
Dramatic Correlation Shown Between GMOs And 22 Diseaseshttps://www.popularresistance.org/dramatic-correlation-shown-between-gmo...
Thank you, that looks like some decent reading. Glyphosate is a big big problem, no question about that from what I've read.
GMOs and mono cropping will turn out to be one of the most insane things we've ever done.
Great! Now have your mafia brethren take that site down! As long as some one makes a buck who gives a fuck about the future of the human species, EH!
A great book is Dr. Perlmutter's GRAIN BRAIN. What you eat not only causes obesity and diabetes, but also alzheimer's.
Partner that knowledge with "Right 4 Your Type" - D'Adamo and one will become healthfully content.
Raised macrobiotics(suckage), 20's singled booze & junk, woke up, went back to balanced organic consumption, laugh silently at those waiting for reactionary crisis AMA management.
Bunch O F-ing Rats, have fun test group. You gonna be die very uncomfortably.
Oh, and much sooner than your remotely imagine cuz it ain't gonna happen to you right? /s
You stupid fat slackers are costing tax payers BILLIONS.
Starve to death or something.
Oh, no fucking way are we discussing "health". Nope. Uh huh.
Obama, Pelosi & Reid fixed it here, let the rest of the world deal with their own problems.
Nothing like government solutions to problems created by government.
"Oh, no fucking way are we discussing "health". Nope. Uh huh.
Obama, Pelosi & Reid fixed it here, let the rest of the world deal with their own problems."
We have to get diabetes to read the diagnosis that we have diabetes
OMG! You have CANCER!
---> Pollution is the important problem
---> Anthropogenic global warming/climate change is the important problem
Anyone who has seen a graph of any species's population curve knows that it follows the 'e' curve. It maxes out at some point. Maybe this is just the elite's way of seeing that the human species goes down the other side of the curve.
500,000,000 is the goal for world pop.
Sounds like about the right number. Coincidentally, that's about the size of the white population.
And the fix is?
Easy Ways to Avoid Diabetes and Reverse Prediabetes
You can eliminate your risk of Type II Diabetes almost completely if you implement at least 10 to 12 of the following easy steps:
1. Lose 10% of your weight if you are overweight. That reduces your diabetes risk by at least 50%.
2. Keep your waist size under 50% of your height to reduce your risk by more than 70%
3. Exercise at least 20 minutes a day to reduce your risk by more than 30%
4. Limit TV watching to under three hours a day, preferably under two (sitting for longer than 2 hours increases insulin resistance).
5. Avoid sugary drinks and sweet fruit juices. Especially avoid sweet diet drinks.
6. Eat natural, whole foods, especially green foods such as kale, broccoli and spinach and whole grains, and avoid processed foods and canned foods and white bread
7. Eat breakfast and avoid eating two to three hours before sleeping for the night.
8. Limit your red meat consumption and minimize your consumption of processed meats like bacon, sausages and sandwich meats.
9. Consume at least 3 servings of whole fruit a week especially blueberries, red grapes, apples and pears.
10. Get adequate sleep and have regular sleep hours (lack of sleep increases insulin resistance).
11. Manage your stress. Stressful events like divorce, job-loss, or death of a loved one increase diabetes risk sharply.
12. Eat a handful of nuts everyday, especially walnuts and almonds, to easily reduce your risk by 25% or more (also pistachios, cashews, peanuts, brazil nuts, pecans, hazelnuts, pine nuts, macadamias).
more at
http://diabetesrisk.net/Default9.aspx
Too complicated.
1. Stay active
2. Avoid eating processed grains, sugar, vegetable oil.
3. Get your carbs from veggies instead of sweet fruits.
4. Eat natural meats (avoid steroid / antibiotic-fed animals / fish/ fowl) - and you will see the fat melt away.
Fuck all that. 4 beers/day preferrly at 10am and you're golden.
Yup, cold pizza and warm beer. Occasionally with a cigarette butt in it... The breakfast of champions.
;-)
When there was no pizza leftover, fill up a bowl of Cheerios and PBR, presto change-o, Beerios!
Still too complicated.
1. Don't get diabetes.
Still too complicated.
1. Don't.
agree with all of that but 3. People should eat some fruit and are not going to get fat from doing so.
the trick is to avoid carbs/sugar later in the day.
for dinner, eat a high protein, very low sugar meal and dont consume sugar before bed. Your body will be forced to burn fat as you sleep.
Avoiding stress and/or mitigating stress {especially through recreational exercise} is also important.
got ten minutes?
https://courses.cit.cornell.edu/bionb1200/secure/zebra%20ulcers.pdf
Many types of fruit have been bred for a higher sugar content. Fruit naturally tastes a bit sour - think Cranberries. If the fruit is sweet then you are eating a lot of FRUCTOSE. The body is not designed to handle anything beyond minimal amounts.
Then go have some Cheetos. Are you saying an apple is bad for my health?
Fructose is terrible for you. Your liver manufactures LDL cholesterol as direct result and necessary step for coping with this molecule that hardly any other cells in your bidy can do anything with. Fructose in the bloodstream has a much greater tendancy to glycate proteins even than glucose does, which creates debris your bidy cant easily clear that in turn gets oxidized too. Thst stuff participates in all sorts of mischief. Often these are called Advanced Glycation End products, AGE's. Those are.what make diabetics appear much older than they are, among the other mischief they do.
Correct.
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/86/4/895.full
What happened to eat a bag of Cheetos a day?? I thought that was one of the main food groups.
good list I would add
eat organic to avoid GMOs and modern (deadly) pesticides
limit dairy intake
eat a wide variety of vegetables and fruits which provide micro nutrients pills can not deliver and deliver it in a much better way
two hoots: And the fix is?
This has the science and many positive personal experiences.
http://vegetablepharm.blogspot.com/p/the-potato-diet_14.html
The rules for the Potato Hack are simple. If you are eating something that is not a potato, you are doing it wrong.
Great for weight lost as well as weight stability and gut health.
I have gone from 230 to 182 (presently) in a few months after trying "everything else" and yo-yoing for a number of years.
The starch bomb nutrient deficient potato that deposits calcium into joints of blood type O people is starving the fat off of your body.
Whole meals of proper amounts is eating properly. Not DIE + T. A temporary solution to an ignorant habit.
Eating "Right 4 Your Type" - D'Adamo; problems GONE, if you have any or...
when you hit slowing metabolism age you will be already shapely thin.
Most likely "to complicated" for the ZH majority, with lack of self preservation beyond gimme gimme my shit.
Have fun being fat, numb, diabetic, AMA'd and FEMA'd you bunch of Matrixtards.
180.6 this morning. Did you watch the videos with the scientific research on the site? Did you read the comments about others results?
My Dr. is very impressed with my blood work results and fat loss.
3lbs lost in one day is not uncommon and the scientific research validates that.
But, whatever works for you.
The fix is that those unhealthy people will die prematurely hopefully before they reproduce, solving both the population/resource problem and improving the gene pool (natural selection in action). I see no problem what-so-ever.
And, by the way dear author, is there some sort of people shortage I haven't heard about? The carrying capacity of the earth is well under 1 billion if any sort of western lifestyle is postulated. Write another article when we cross that threshold.
Ban the fatties!
Governments, corporations and the control hierarchy are a global threat not only to the health of the planet but consequently to the health of every living thing on the planet. Until they are all exposed brought into line and under control they will keep causing the problems, creating panic reactions and presenting more and more deadly solutions as time goes forward. Ironically the greedy sell-out licensed controlled members of the hierarchy that support these frequently dangerous, even deadly, solutions don't want them for themselves or their families.
On an earlier comment I listed out just 30 of the ridiculous number of known toxins, poisons and carcinogens that are in vaccines. Corporations have little to no liability and doctors pass off liability to pharmacists who pass liability on to insurance companies that have millions of dollars worth of attorneys to bankrupt you before paying you for damages.
Most doctors who were terminally ill would AVOID aggressive treatments such as chemotherapy - despite recommending it to their patients
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2643751/Most-doctors-terminall...
More Than 22,000 Brave Nurses Refusing to Submit to Mandatory Vaccinations
http://www.theeventchronicle.com/health/more-than-22000-brave-nurses-ref...
Bravo to the brave nurses, doctors and many traditional and alternative medical practitioners that refuse to consent to the threats from the alleged modern medical community that constantly seek to use terrorism to silence and cover up their medical crimes against humanity or eliminate their competition.
It's been 70 years since the last time the herd was culled in a significant number.
We're overdue.
My brother in law used Sweet & Low in his coffee for years. He contended that if it was bad for you the government would ban it. And the guy was trim and active. !?!??!!!!
Ok. But stay away from Splenda (Sucralose). This stuff is pure evil. Much better tasting than Sweet & Low and less chemical aftertaste than Nutra-Sweet. However, it wreaks havoc with the body. I was drinking at one time a butt ton of Arizona Diet Green Tea with Splenda. After a couple of months I began to get severe itchy patches on my scalp and hair loss as if I had runaway ringworm. Sleep issues, severe depression, even to the point of suicidal thoughts. Google symptons for Splenda (Sucralose) poisoning/allergies and found stories very similar to mine. Went to the doctor and he told me to give it up for two weeks to see what happened. After the first week, noticable reduction of all symptoms. After two weeks, very little symptoms. After a month I was pretty much clear.
Have been VERY diligent about making sure I NEVER eat anything with artificial sweetners and DOUBLY diligent about Splenda.
Stay away from Purvia! It's based on the natural sweetener stevia and I thought it might be better than Sweet n Low. Terrible headaches, increasing every day until it was unbearable. I finally identified what I had changed in my diet. It took a month to get it out of my system. I'm now using liquid stevia with no problems. It was the carrier in Purvia.
Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
Mayor: What do you mean, "biblical"?
Dr Ray Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath of God type stuff.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Exactly.
Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...
Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!
Mayor: All right, all right! I get the point!
You can always cherry pick a few pictures of polluted shit and a few statistics to make any point. Yawn.
Yeah, but this is a trend in many parts of the world. People living on some islands between Japan and North America might not agree with your cherry picking mantra.
Yes it is always easier to sit back and let someone else do all the work. Statements like 'cherry pick' is the cop out for anyone who will always take the easy way out instead of actually doing the footwork themselves. But don't let me disturb you my liege, as everything you say and think must be true. Would you like another grape?
When is the last time your town had air pollution like it is shown in the photos above? Maybe never. It's apparently common in China.
We are also at the end of the antibiotic era, thanks to the industrial production of meat which requires the massive over use of them in animals kept in close proximity.
Darwin never sleeps.
Eat healthy but do not be obsessed.
However fermented foods are incredibly healthy. Make your own,
Two things about food and health that I use as guides.
1. Cook from scratch with quality ingredients.
2. Be active enough to burn all the calories you ingest.
The first step is recognizing there is a problem.
Can't change the country or the world. But we can change ourselves. I changed my food habits 2 years ago and dropped out of obesity to a healthy weight range. Had to just permanently change the way I eat. Don't know if it will stave off health problems. I can certainly walk and work a lot easier. But I'm not giving up cigars and distilled beverages.
For proof of doom one need go no further than what was reported in the Wall Street Journal in December of 2013.
They wrote that 30% of US teens were taking one or more prescription drugs long term. IOW some were taking two, three or even five drugs.
Anyone on a long term drug is likely to be taking a second or third drug before too long and some will be taking a half dozen or more before they hit 21. This means we are going to have a large body of 20-somethings who require physical assistance by the year 2025 - maybe sooner.
Our society will collapse from within from this scenario.
BTW, 59% of adults are on one or more drugs long term, so the future isn't too rosy for any age group.
Since GMOs started to be introduced into foods about 15 years ago, all sorts of digestive illnesses, including Crohn's and IBS, have doubled. That's pretty remarkable since the introduction of GMOs didn't happen all at once. This means the increase in incidence is likely to continue.
Humans are not evolved enough to manage themselves.
They will explode their biomass and destroy the earth's ecosystems to the point that they crash their own population, just like any other massively over-populating, over-consuming, over-polluting species.
It's all going according to plan.
Henry's.
Paul Davies, in his book “About Time” uses Bayes probability to predict the probability of Armageddon for the human population at greater than 85%.
A link for Bayes probability and Armageddon:
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=bayes+probability+armagedonnen