Start With the Basics - Health First

Our health care system is in a shambles - so says the director of the Centers of Disease Control, Dr. Julie Gerberding. Her solution: start from the ground up - train medical doctors in health theory and practice, and not just the treatment of diseases.

Bravo! I've been pushing this agenda for the last seven years. In fact, my upcoming book - The Six Keys to Optimal Health - runs precisely on that premise. It makes no sense to me to neglect basic health practices and hope that, in the future, a magic bullet will be waiting to save us. That's a big fat fantasy. Dream on.

If you are not eating wholesome nutritious foods, not exercising regularly, not getting sufficient rest, not working out the stress and tension of your body with regular bodywork, not keeping mentally balanced, and regularly ingesting toxins - like prescription and over the counter medications, recreational drugs and cigarette smoke - then you're flirtin' with disaster. And...guess what? It's going to continue to tax an already overloaded and overpriced medical system. Michael Moore can make 5,000 films and presidential candidates can campaign on the Universal Health Care platform till kingdom come - if the people of this country don't start with the basics, then it ain't gonna get any better - just worse. Nuff said.