death stats

[Guest guest]

While we still don't know the causes of all diseases, we have a pretty

good idea about the top ten killers, except alzheimer's. While there are

unknown causes within all of these categories, the majority of deaths in

each category are preventable through diet, exercise and good lifestyle.

Perhaps more than 60% of deaths in the USA are preventable from simple

commonsense and noniatrogenic medicine. Its really a shame we even have

to treat these things at all. Our government is not doing enough to

educate the public. Because real education on these issues might hurt the

tobacco, alcohol, firearms and meat industries. hmmmm.

 

Imagine if our healthcare system could devote itself entirely to the

treatment of more obscure disease without known causes, as well the

nonterminal, but debilitating conditions like arthritis, uterine bleeding,

headaches, allergies, IBS, etc. then free up resources to tackle the

issues of optimal health and longevity. I wonder what that would be like?

 

Final 2000 data

Ten Leading Causes of Death in the U.S.:

>Total_deaths_______________________________2,403,351

Heart Disease: 710,760 (mostly caused by poor diet, lack of exercise, poor

stress management, smoking and possibly various untreated infections -

mostly preventable)

Cancer: 553,091 (the biggest killers, lung and colon, are preventable by

quitting smoking and eating a lowfat, high fiber diet, respectively)

Stroke: 167661 (typically has the same causes as heart disease and is thus

mostly preventable)

Chronic Lower Respiratory Disease: 122,009 (the fatal ones, like emphysema,

are mostly caused by smoking, thus preventable)

Adverse Prescription Drug Reactions: 106,000 (nuff said here)

Accidents: 97,900 (most are due to irresponsible use of alcohol and

firearms, thus preventable)

Diabetes: 69,301 (obesity is the main culprit in most cases)

Pneumonia/Influenza: 65,313 (many cases are hospital pneumonia, where a

weakened patient with some other disease contracts a superbug that abounds

in hospitals due to antibiotic overuse)

Alzheimer's Disease: 49,558 (is this one preventable; it must be. all

the rest are. it didn't even make the list 20 years ago, probably due to

missed diagnosis then or overdiagnosis today)

Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 37,251 (kidney diseases have

many causes, quite a few of which are iatrogenic)

 

Misc Other - a little more than 425,000, all less than 31,000 each,

includes septicemia (much of it hospital related), AIDS (known preventable

causes), liver disease (known preventable causes), suicide (mostly caused

by major depression, which largely treatable), homicide (mostly gun

related)

 

 

 

 

Chinese Herbs

 

 

" Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre

minds " -- Albert Einstein

[Guest guest]

then free up resources to tackle the issues of optimal health and longevity

>>>That would be great, however the majority of resources are spent on primos and last months of life. Should that change? i think so

Alon