June 23, 2018 | Reversing Disease Epidemics with Diet, at Last!!

Portfolio Manager and President of Venable Park Investment Counsel (www.venablepark.com) Ms Park is a financial analyst, attorney, finance author and regular guest on North American media. She is also the author of the best-selling myth-busting book "Juggling Dynamite: An insider's wisdom on money management, markets and wealth that lasts," and a popular daily financial blog: www.jugglingdynamite.com
Don’t look now, but people are finally starting to figure out that it’s the food they are eating that is ruining their health and quality of life!! A food revolution is inevitable, because the status quo is un-affordable misery. As behaviors change, the future brightens.
See Diabetes defeated by diet: how new fresh food prescriptions are beating pricey drugs. Here are some important stats on just the diabetes epidemic alone:
- Spending on diabetes drugs in the U.S. reached $53.7 billion last year, more than double what it was in 2013.
- Roughly 100 million Americans have diabetes or prediabetes.The Fresh Food Farmacy program, being tested by Geisinger Health System in Pennsylvania, which includes education and free nutritious meals, can lower diabetes treatment costs by 80 percent.
- The high-fat, low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet is being used by new health-care start-up Virta Health, which aims to treat 100 million patients by 2025.
Using food therapy to help control diabetes. Here is a direct video link.
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Danielle Park June 23rd, 2018
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