Interesting video ... We both have similar health goals ... No meds! I'm 56 and he's 58. A recent New York Times article stated: The average adult over age 55 juggles six to eight medications daily.

The good news: It's not that difficult to regain good health.                                                              

Very interesting video about health and exercise.

If your health is important to you, you will want to listen to Dr. Fuhrman's radio interviews. He addresses many health issues that confront Americans.

Healthy Bones for Life - Dr. John Abramson - Author Overdosed America (after listening to this interview, I'm more convinced than ever to avoid meds) - After listening to this interview, I recommend listening to this NPR report about Osteopenia (How a Bone Disease Grew to Fit the Prescription).

Preventing Sarcopenia: the Major Cause of Age-Related Disabilities (after listening to this interview, I'm more convinced than ever to continue strength straining)

Don’t Control Your Diabetes – Get Rid of It!

Eat to Live the Basics

Nobody Should Die of Heart Disease

How to Get Off Blood Pressure Medicine

Healthy to 100

A truly fascinating article.

This is just one snippet: Twenty years from now, the maturation of the baby boom generation will be at flood tide. We will have gone from 40 million Americans over the age of 65 in 2009 to 70 million in 2030. This will put enormous pressure on the health care system, regardless of whether Obama's reform efforts, or even Paul Ryan's, prove successful. The chronic diseases of the elderly will be the front line. Because we cannot cure those diseases at present, nor reasonably hope for cures over the next few decades, the best we will be able to do in many cases, especially those of the elderly and frail, is extend people's lives for a relatively short period of time — at considerable expense and often while causing serious suffering to the person in question.

I'm always skeptical of statistics, however, this should give a "ballpark" idea about health/disease risk factors. 

In fact, your major risk factor for death from a preventable disease is not the quality of your health care (about 10 percent of your risk), your social circumstances (about 15 percent) or even your genetic makeup (about 30 percent). Your single biggest risk is your own behavior (40 percent).

Source: Healthy Aging: A Cheat Sheet

That's a mouthful, however, at Kirk Hamilton's website: Prescription 2000, you will find a rich array of interviews with many experts. 

Here are some that I have found very interesting:

1. Got Kids? Listen to the interview with Robyn O'Brien. Robyn is your advocate.
2. Got balls? Listen to this informative interview about prostrate cancer? This is a must-listen for all men.
3. Live in America? Listen to Jean Buzby. She is with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service. A whole lot of interesting information that you will not hear anywhere else.

Here's a tip: If you have a smartphone, plug in the headphones and listen at your leisure -- in the car, at the airport or any other convenient time. Enjoy.

The American diet is a catastrophe. We don’t have a health care crisis. We have a food crisis. 75% of our health care costs are spent on chronic disease linked to the diet…and that is bankrupting us. - Michael Pollan

What is the Main Street Diet? Let me briefly explain. Here's a tour of "my" Main Street.

1. 13 Fast Food Restaurants
2. 7 Gas Stations ... upon entering the convenience store, I am confronted with a vast array of junk food.
   
3. Now let's do a few errands: PetSmart, OfficeMax, Home Depot, FedEx, and a few other stores  - Upon checkout, each one of these offers an enormous amount of candy and soda.
4. On "my" Main Street, there are three, yes three, CVS pharmacies (within a mile of each other). Upon entering, I am not sure if I have entered a candy store or a drug store.

Welcome to America's Main Street. 

Dr. William Castelli (former director of the Framingham Heart Study) states: "The American diet is the worst diet you could possibly eat anywhere in the world."

Of course, many people will state: "You don't have to eat the food that is available on Main Street." Yes, this is true. However, we consider Main Street America to be normal. It is not. It has led to a toxic food environment. 

The choice is yours: Continue consuming these foods or make a change. You can learn how to make simple changes by purchasing Feed Your Head or attending one of my presentations.

David Murdoch ... He wants to reach 125, and sees no reason he can’t, provided that he continues eating the way he has for the last quarter century: with a methodical, messianic correctness that he believes can, and will, ward off major disease and minor ailment alike.

Read more.

This article is from the Huffington Post.

While I do not agree with the entire article, I do agree with this statement: "Americans (still) rule the world. They can stroll on the moon, influence global diplomacy, finance unstable countries around the world…yet they cannot keep their own people relatively healthy? Of course they could, if it were actually desired. Unfortunately, for the world’s most powerful companies, an unhealthy America is, perversely, a very profitable America."

On the main street near my home, there's a tremendous amount of junk food and fast food available. As well, there are three CVS pharmacies on that same strip ... about two miles. Yes, crap food delivers patients to big pharma. No doubt about it. 

During this time of thanks, I am thankful that I have avoided the medical industrial complex.

Once in a while, a brief and insightful article is written. Here's one by Robin Quivers about the link between food and health. The title: Nutty for Nutrition.