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I Can't Afford it!

If you think you can’t afford good nutrition, think again! The truth is, you can’t afford to be without good nutritional supplements. Most people are already spending at least 15 cents an hour, 24 hours a day (15 cents x 24 hours x 28 days = $100.80 every month) to insure their car and/or their house, which are replaceable. Don’t you think that investing 15 cents an hour ($3.60 a day) into your personal health and longevity is immeasurably more important? Aren't you worth at least that much? Isn't everyone's health worth that much?

Many people have substituted good nutrition for drugs because their medical insurance covers the cost of going to the doctor and a percentage of the prescription drugs and nutrition isn’t covered. Unfortunately, medical insurance doesn’t cover the time and productivity lost at work and they don’t reimburse you for your pain and suffering. To top it all off, the prescription drugs often have severe side effects that can cause temporary and, in some cases, permanent problems that are worse than the original symptoms! Did you know that more than 100,000 people each year die as a result of taking properly prescribed medications?

This statistic is according to a recent article appearing in The Journal of American Medical Association. The author, Bruce Pomeranz, M.D., Ph.D., reviewed 39 different studies of adverse drug reactions in hospitals, and came up with some alarming conclusions. According to Pomeranz’s research, he estimates that 2,216,000 hospital patients experienced serious adverse drug reactions (side effects) and 106,000 died from these reactions in 1994 alone. This astounding number accounted for 4.6% of all recorded deaths in the U.S. in that year. This makes drug reaction deaths the fourth leading cause of death in the country.

According to the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health, “90% of health problems can be dealt with at home, bypassing the cost of a visit to the doctor.” A healthy diet with glyconutritional and phytochemical supplements can go a long way to ensure that you never get sick to begin with. Not only do you avoid the pain and suffering, you also avoid the risks of having adverse reactions to drugs!

Let’s analyze what your health already costs you. First, most of us have to pay for our health insurance in one form or another. For those living in the United States, we typically pay a reduced rate through our employer. When you see a doctor, you pay a fee for the office visit plus a percentage or “co-pay” for the drugs the doctor prescribes. A single visit to the doctor can end up costing you more than $100 after you include the costs of the office visit and prescriptions. Suppose you make $10.00 an hour working and as a result of being sick, you miss 3 days of work. If you were working 8 hours per day, you would have just lost another $240. So the total cost of getting sick for only a few days could easily cost you more than $300, not to mention the loss in productivity for you or your employer! Imagine how much this could cost you if you had a long-term sickness – the costs can be unbearable!

What if improving your health increased your life span by just one year? What is that worth to you? At least one year’s income! What if you lived 10-20 years longer? What is that worth to you? It’s very easy to quantify the costs of good nutrition, but it’s much more difficult to quantify the benefits of being healthy. None of us know how long we have to live or what diseases we may be preventing by making choices that will benefit our overall health.

Many people waste $3-5 a day on just drinks and snacks. Eliminate or reduce the harmful “foods” that are especially DANGEROUS, such as sodas, chips, candy, pastries, (sugar is more harmful than smoking), snacks, fried foods, packaged breakfast cereals, etc. Anything that has been processed robs your health. Rather than waste your money on these kinds of food, why not invest your money in better health? The little investment you make now could end up saving you hundreds if not thousands of dollars down the road!