Congrats!

Check into the backgrounds of Max Gerson and John Beard.

Best of luck!
Steve

Case in point. People need to take much more responsibility for themselves, health wise. If there are diets that keep people virtually disease-free (like not even having so much as a cold in over 30 years), than people need to be told about them, and (on one side) people need to be made aware of them, and held accountable. On the other side, access to pure, living foods (like organic, “NON-GMO”), needs to be increased in order to make them much more accessible to those who have much lower incomes. THESE are the areas that desperately need reform.

Also, we need a DRASTIC REDUCTION of “orthodox” medical influence, which, from my standpoint, is running rampant, because it is backed by billions and billions of dollars that are being used to “buy out” all of the regulatory agencies and politicians, so that they can get away with whatever they please (including keeping the American public blind to alternatives that help them stay out of the “good doctor’s” office). Literally BILLIONS are being made on the long term “care” of diseases that can literally be cured with lifestyle changes. “Somebody” (namely, the medical bureaucracies) will have to lose money in order for overall health to improve in this country.

Your husband’s cancer could have been effectively and PERMANENTLY cured by a clinic in Tijuana, Mexico, that costs $10,000 FOR TWO WEEKS (not for TWO DAYS). But, it’s illegal in the U.S. for a clinic to treat cancer with heavy consumption of fresh, organic vegetable juices. Why, because juicing can’t be “patented” (controlled) the way drugs can.

The RIGHT reform would literally crush the multi-billion dollar nest egg that the orthodox medical industry is using some of its billions to protect.

There need to be enough people to say “We’re not patronizing this garbage anymore”. THEN, and only then, will we have true reform that will bring healthcare costs (which now ought to be called “disease”care costs) back to reasonable levels.

Liz, regarding your comment on a “narrow belief system”, permit me to state that everything is “relative”. The “narrowness” of the one belief system that is both Biblically regarded and scientifically proven to be the Truth (Christianity) is only due to the fact that the entire “pool” of belief systems has grown exponentially since the days of the Garden, making Christianity occupy a smaller “percentage” of all of them.

I cringe at the fact, in any other area of life than “belief systems”, truth is regarded as “absolute”. It doesn’t matter whether we’re talking about how many gallons of fuel are in one’s tank, or how many dollars are in one’s bank account–there’s “absolute truth”. BUT… when it comes to religion, it’s “You have your ‘truth’, I have mine.”

Do you believe that it’s a coincidence that, back when our Founding Fathers dedicated this nation to Almighty God (saying [paraphrased] “May God help us if we should ever depart from His ways”), it was prospering like crazy, but, ever since 1963, when the nation officially left God out of the picture, it’s been declining to the pathetic condition that it is now? If all the belief system out were “the Truth”, than the dispersion of people’s faith across all of them, and the resulting principles and lifestyles people followed, would have kept the U.S. the great nation it’s always been.

My conclusion, “The devil is a liar”.

Two thoughts that I have tried to live by (which has been good for my wallet as well as happiness) are:

1. “I have just enough”. So often we get in the mindset that we need more. But when I look in my cluttered basement and closets, the truth is that I have plenty. I’m not lacking anything. In fact, I’m working on sorting through all of those things that “I just needed at the time”, but are now collecting dust. When we learn to be content with what we have, then that is when we can start managing our money better and also start enjoying what we already have.

2. Don’t focus on what other people have (even if “everybody else” has it.) We do this with items like a 3D television set, but also with major life changing things; such as buying a house, getting married, having kids, etc. I’ve known people who essentially went out and sought a spouse because “all of their friends are married now or are getting married.” Don’t make decisions based on what other people are doing. Do and buy what is right for you. If you focus on other people in this manner, you will always be trying to chase happiness instead of just being happy.