The real problem with medical research is that since Reagan cut all the funding for basic research, the only source of funding is pharmaceutical companies and for-profit distributors.
The results, of course, are heavily biased toward medical inteventions. Same way most crop research is conducted by chemical companies -- the solution for ALL farm issues is more chemical applications. No profit in keeping people healthy or reducing chemical usage (by breeding fungus resistant corn instead of drowning the country in Daconil, which is the current issue here). Americans have more heart attacks because they lead high stress, low exercise lives and eat chemically altered and adulterated "food" instead of fresh food with minimal additives. And the vast majority are morbidly obese for the same reasons. Genetics play a big role too -- heart disease does run in families and if you don't have a genetic propensity it probably doesn't matter what you do, and if you do have heart disease on both sides you may not escape it. I'm lucky, we all seem to have gotten my mother's side's hearts. My dad died after a big heart attack in 1976, and his father had a series of strokes and heart attacks that killed him in 1950 at the same age. Eat well, exercise, and do what you can to reduce stress. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
