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"Achieving and Maintaining Optimal Health"
"Truthful ... sometimes alarming ... yet hopeful" ... aptly describe this powerful and revealing presentation that will motivate attendees to begin making choices leading to optimal health.
Considering our current economic climate, the skyrocketing costs of medical care and health insurance, and the unprecedented accessibilty of junk food, perhaps never before has there been such a compelling need for simple solutions that will help us to become ... and remain ... healthier.
Chronic disease is on the rise in our country. And most of us simply cannot afford to be sick! ABC News recently reported that The U.S. government spent more than $2.3 trillion on health care in 2008, more than three times the $714 billion spent in 1990, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. U.S. health care spending averaged $7,681 per person in 2008.
To put that into perspective, the United States spends twice as much on health care as it does on food, according to the McKinsey Global Institute.
At the same time, for consumers, medical insurance premiums continue to rise sharply. Since 1999, they have increased 131 percent for employer-sponsored health coverage, according to Kaiser. Stories of families facing unaffordable premium hikes can be found across the country.
In "Achieving and Maintaining Optimal Health" James Meyer first underscores the increasing prevalence of chronic disease and puts forth several hypotheses for why this is occurring.
As each of these evidences are brought into focus, solutions are proposed.
Along the way, visual summaries are presented on screen and details of the potential solutions discussed are offered to attendees in a complimentary "mini-course" — a series of 16 weekly email mailings entitled "Pathways to Better Health."
There are 30-minute, 45-minute, 60-minute, and 70-minute versions of this talk.
Following are topics covered —
- Three ways the food industry assures profitability
- Our alarming health crisis
- Heart disease, diabetes and obesity
- Cancer
- Autoimmune disease
- The potential role of foods and synthetic additives in behavior, learning and health problems
- Stress
- Post traumatic stress syndrome
- Predisposition
- The need for prevention
- Helpful solutions
- Nutrition
- Synthetic supplements
- An innovative solution
Please review excerpts of this interesting talk and listen to some of the audio clips on this Web page.
To schedule "Achieving and Maintaining Optimal Health" for your organization, please contact James Meyer at (520) 378-3760.
Excerpts
Introduction
"I am first going to talk about our culture’s alarming health crisis that continues to worsen; then about the need for prevention; and finally, some alternative solutions, which include the type of calories that enhance your health and increase your energy … instead of making you feel sick and tired."
Major health care expenditures
"The Mayo Clinic has issued a report titled: Extreme Obesity: A New Medical Crisis in the United States. This report tells us that the prevalence of obesity has markedly increased in the past few decades, and this disorder is responsible for more health care expenditures than any other medical condition."
The urgency of prevention
"And the Journal of the American Medical Association has warned us that poor diet and physical inactivity may soon overtake tobacco as a leading cause of death. These findings, along with escalating health care costs and aging population, speak to the urgency with which we need to focus on prevention."
Women ... and stress
"Women who work full-time and have children under the age of 13 report the greatest stress worldwide. Nearly one in four mothers who work full-time and have children under 13 feel stress almost every day. Globally, 23% of women executives and professionals, and 19% of their male peers, say they feel 'super-stressed'."
"We are at war with the food industry ... "
We are at war with the American food industry. Each of you cannot eat much more than about 1,500 pounds of food every year. Unfortunately for the food industry, this tends to limit their growth rate to the annual rate of growth of the American population, which is about 1%. Considering the fiercely competitive marketplace, coupled with today’s economic climate, Wall Street finds this “paltry” 1% growth rate totally unacceptable. So everyone from the growers, up the distribution chain, to McDonald’s, General Foods, Kraft Foods and Kentucky Fried Chicken must pursue three solutions: First, entice you to eat a lot more than your fifteen hundred pound share, second, convince you to spend more per pound for everything you eat, and third, give you less nutritional value for every dollar you spend.
