Q: How Do You Have A Healthy Lifestyle In A Modern World?
A: You Don't.
We complain about healthcare but we do nothing about the Food Chain.
We want free healthcare for all but we ignore the CDC: Almost half
(45%) of American adults have a chronic disease, these are, the main
cause of, illness, disability, and death, and account for most
the larger share of our care expenditure in the US. The bulk of this is
preventable.
Many things in our food chain start out as good or at least pure products with good intentions. After they get homogenized, hydrogenated, , bromulated, and "refined" slapped with deceptive Labels and marketing its hard to tell what's going on. All manner of processing gone wild. The industry isn't in a big hurry to help you figure it all out. Tobbaco companies bought the Food companies. That can't be a good sign? Generally the general public is in no hurry to do the right thing. If everyone ate correctly starting tomorrow morning the economy would collapse.
Eating is one of the most illogical things we do in a modern society.
We throw away 30-40% of our food every year. The way we take water for granted is horrible. We treat eating more like
a "activity" or a hobby than a important FUEL for your body that influences
practically everything about your health. You wouldn't put the wrong
fuel in your car so why would you do it to your body?
The majority of eating is not biologically driven. More than most
eating is a direct result of thoughts/cognition, hedonistic temptations and emotions
based on illogical assumptions. As opposed to EATING IN RESPONSE TO
COGNITION. Cognition of relevance to eating include awareness of the
"real reasons" for consuming. Highly cognitively controlled eaters use
critical thinking. Low cognitively controlled eaters just eat whatever
is
on the fork is in front of them at any time day or night. Your body is
not always your friend contrary to popular belief. Our prude history has never told us this truth. If you have a
cognitive disconnect and don't take charge of your body, it could kill
you. Without any cognitive issues at all it is still difficult to tell
what your body is saying to you. You have to pay attention to what
your body actually really needs, not just what it wants. It's
better to have a strategy regardless of the situation.
Outsource your temptations
Its a full time job to go super scientific on food properties.
Scientists can have conflicting claims or fuel unscrupulous
marketing. The internet has brought into a giant bait and switch business model. Learning about this stuff helps build what I call your, "Health Account
Checking Account." Like any Checking account if the money is not there
you can't write checks. Instead of only doing the same things all the
time go get ahead whenever you can. The song says you know, "trouble
is coming every day." Just like saving money for a rainy day when you
see a chance to get ahead DO IT. You ever notice those days when you brought your own lunch to work and it was not a fun lunch, it was an apple, salad, and some boring stuff but you ate it up because you had no hedonistic choices clouding your judgement. Out of sight out of mind.
Eating
fresh organic food and knowing the farmer who grows stuff is not
possible for many people but there are still endless ways to build
your Health Checking Account.
Here are some helpful tips to add to your Health Checking Account:
• Use V-8 juice. I hate the taste, but it makes a great deposit in
your health account.
• Use sweet potatoes instead of white potatoes. Bigger bang for the
buck.
• Use Tempah instead of hash browns (start out mixing the two).
• Use Olive oil, Coconut Oil and real butter instead of greasy bad
stuff.
• Use plain Yogurt and add your own Fruit, Nuts or flavors.
• Have some Walnuts every week. Yes they're expensive but they're like
Magic!
• Use something to remind you to drink more water, make "ques" or use
Jeet Kune Do.
• Use a slow cooker. It's perfect for adjusting your meat/vegetable
ratio.
• Remember "Out of Sight=Out of Mind." Don't have bad stuff in your
house.
• "Hungry" is not hunger, its illusion in need of a diversion. Use
diversions.
• Find diversions. A walk, a glass of water, a cup of coffee or tea.
• Apples! One of the best things to divert those unauthorized hunger
pangs.
The days of your health being something you don't have to pay
attention to, are coming to an end. Your own health is now a business,
your business, your an entrepreneur. Make Health your business you
own, not somebody else's business. The reason we can't cleanup our
healthcare system is because it's such a great business. But not for
you.
Pricing Your Health Care
America is the only country in the world that doesn't regulate
medical prices. Everyone needs electricity, utilities, we regulate it,
but medical prices can be whatever anybody says they are. That would
be A-Ok if things were transparent. Every city has different prices for the same medical procedures. This is great for Hollywood accounting.
The way
we've let our healthcare system get monetized it's become too big to
fail. Today your health is more about which type of payment, your lack
of knowledge, your location, and your employment, rather than about
your well being situation.
You walk into a doctor or dentist office, they won't give you any
prices until you tell them whether its Employer Insurance, private
insurance, no insurance, credit, cash, Bitcoin or trinkets. You're
under the mistaken impression that Insurance is just a different form
of the same payment. This couldn't be farther from the truth.
Insurance provides a smoke screen for all kinds of monkey business.
A Colonoscopy ranges ANYWHERE from $200 to $3700. Depending on
Insurance, Co-Pay, Cash,. A Circumcision for your newborn is anywhere
from $200 to $2,200. Hospitals and Clinics win some and lose some so
they depend on the ability to charge whatever they can get. With the
secret pricing system they have more options than a Used Car Dealer. I
couldn't believe the Co-Pay charges I was getting! Your only hope is
to know you can bargan and fight back.
They don't want you to know and sometimes are bluffiing hoping you'll jus pay the ripoff prices. They can sell medical debts.
Insurance companies been keeping this
hidden. The cat is out of the bag now. They use business, while you've
been using emotion. They deserve to make as much money as they can,
but let us in on it on the grift. CSPAN just had a Hearing On Healthcare with the CEO's from the largest Healthcare companies. The bigest one he didn't seem too cooperative and seemed like he didn't want to be there. The others were very forthcoming and admit the whole thing is broken, they even suggest ways to fix the system. They're own systems. We've basically known this for many years now, so how come it never gets fixed? Follow the money. Remember when Warren Buffet said he pays less tax than his secretary, then he described what's wrong. Nothing ever happened. Warren was dismayed, all the way to the bank.
Hospitals and doctors are a business. Ok. There's nothing illegal
about not telling you the actual costs. But that doesn't work in Health Care. If you paid full MSRP List for
a new car, that's your problem not the Car Dealer. You need to protect
yourself. Knowledge is your REAL currency in this fight for
healthcare. The politicians arguing on TV, that's about emotion. It's
all nonsense. Political theater designed to make you think Health Care
is a Democrat vs Republican issue. It's intended to protect their
status quo, not your health. Okay fine but let us in on it.
Unfortunately you can no longer trust your Health Care to an unknown
financial rube Goldberg equation like a convoluted billing Food Chain
hidden behind a clinic or hospital. I tried to get a Price List of
medical procedures. It used to be impossible. Kaiser Health Care has a
effort to track prices and report outrageous examples. Florida has a
volunteer effort that tracks prices for consistency. Volunteers?
Shouldn't the healthcare industry do this? We know why they don't.
Every procedure has 8 different prices. The rural prices are different
than the city prices. Each state is different. You can get price lists
but that doesn't mean anybody follows it. With this much latitude its
no wonder politicians have chosen sides to defend turf.
This is all nonsense, we either have to declare healthcare a
"business" or not. We all know how a "business" works, and its not
like this! This is a quasi-business scheme of sort sort. The only way
you stand a chance is to be informed. To be informed you need to be,
Digitally Literate. Hospitals, doctors, clinics, give the Insurance
companies a discount price and they to try to charge you full price. A
tooth filling is anywhere from $100 to $300. A teeth cleaning is $125
to $450.
CRAZY PRICE RANGES DEPENDING ON WHERE YOU GO
Breathing problem with ventilator
$23,044 - $120,888
COPD lung disease
$11,900 - $62,346
Cellulitis
$7,905 - $40,596
Chest pain
$5,639 - $32,970
Esophagitis and digestive disorders
$7,107 - $37,750
Heart failure Major complications
$13,960 - $75,197
Kidney failure Major complications
$16,366 - $80,919
Kidney and urinary tract infections
$7,422 - $40,335
Major lower joint replacement
$21,231 - $88,235
Pneumonia With complications
$9,727 - $51,726
