The Great American Health Hoax: The Surprising Truth About How Modern Medicine Keeps You Sick―How to Choose a Healthier, Happier, and Disease-Free Life

314 Pages·2015·12.664 MB·English

by  Raymond Francis MSc

THE
GREAT AMERICAN
HEALTH
RAYMOND FRANCIS
author of the bestseller, Never Be Sick Again

THE
GREAT AMERICAN
HEALTH
HOAX
The Surprising Truth About How Modern Medicine
Keeps You Sick—How to Choose a Healthier,
Happier, and Disease-Free Life
RAYMOND FRANCIS
/P he
Ss
Health Communications, Inc.
Deerfield Beach, Florida
www.hcibooks.com
Disclaimer: The advice contained in this book is not intended as a substitute for the advice/
medical care of the reader’s physician. The reader should generally consult with a physician in
matters relating to his or her health. Any eating or exercise regimen should be undertaken after
consulting with the reader’s physician.
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© 2014 Raymond Francis
ISBN-13: 978-07573-1849-8 (Paperback)
ISBN-10: 07573-1849-5 (Paperback)
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CONTENTS _
Acknowledgments | v
Introduction | 1
ONE: |Almost Died | 11
TWO: Why ltIsn’t Working | 25
THREE: Making Health Simple | 37
FOUR: Your Maintenance List | 51
FIVE: Toxic Foods to Avoid | 79
SIX: Choosing a Better Diet | 121
SEVEN: Toxins Cause Disease | 145
EIGHT: Using Your Mind to Heal | 187
NINE: Physical Factors Affecting Your Health | 199
TEN: It’s Notin YourGenes | 223
ELEVEN: Death by Medicine | 235
TWELVE: The Bottom Line | 275
vi ¢ Acknowledgments
Blaylock, and many others. I also want to thank my professors and col-
leagues at MIT who helped to sharpen the critical thinking skills that
have helped me to achieve the insights that give value to my work.
INTRODUCTION
New opinions are always suspected,
and usually opposed, without any other reason
but because they are not already common.
—John Locke
There are three things which will bring
the end of civilization, even the mightiest that
have ever been or shall be... impure water,
impure air, and impure food.
—Zend Avesta, 3000 BC
H ealth care in America is a hoax—it is pretending to be
something it is not. This hoax is having a devastating impact
on our health and quality of life, and it is threatening to destroy
our economy and impoverish our people.
The definition of health care is “the maintenance or restoration of
health.” But our healthcare system is not about maintaining or restoring
health—it’s about managing the symptoms of disease. This is disease
care, not health care! Managing the symptoms of disease does not pre-
vent or cure disease. We need to transform to a true healthcare system,
and it is up to you to help make that a reality.
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2 © Introduction
Practitioners in our so-called healthcare system wait for disease to
happen and then suppress the symptoms with toxic chemicals and
invasive, health-damaging surgery. Because the underlying causes of
ill health are not addressed, health is not maintained, people get sick
and stay sick, and the costs skyrocket. Worse, the treatments themselves
cause even more disease, pain, suffering, and death. You end up trading
your original problem for a whole new set of problems. Instead of main-
taining or restoring health, our healthcare system is a hoax that creates
and perpetuates disease at enormous cost to society.
Most Americans today are trapped in a disease-care system that has
little to do with health—or with science. We have been tricked into
believing that disease care is health care and that chronic illnesses can-
not be prevented or cured. This ineffective, expensive, and outmoded
approach to health care must be discarded. Health is a choice, and you
can learn how to choose it. The truth is that you can prevent or reverse
almost any disease—without toxic drugs or surgery—by supporting the
body’s own innate ability to heal itself. To teach you what you need to
know, this book offers a simple model of health that can empower almost
anyone to get well, stay well, and never be sick again.
The Great American Health Hoax introduces you to a way of life that
can become your highway to health. It will attempt to persuade you that
you don't have to be sick. First, there is no fun in being sick, and second,
we are going broke trying to pay for the cost of disease. As individu-
als and as a society, health is the solution. But it’s a solution you must
choose. After you decide to choose health, you have to learn how to
achieve it. Fortunately, learning how to be healthy has never been easier.
This book makes health simple.
By providing you with a simple road map to health, you can get well,
stay well, and never be sick again. The goal is to educate a sufficient
Introduction ¢ 3
number of people like you so that we can put an end to our epidemic of
chronic disease and provide a solution to the biggest social and economic
problem of the twenty-first century—the problem of global aging.
The Problem
Global aging is the twenty-first century’s major social and economic
problem. By the year 2050, the number of old people will exceed the
number of young people. In all human history, this has never happened
before. The cost of providing pensions and disease care for the elderly is
going to be astronomical, and there will not be enough young workers
to pay the costs. This economic crisis is coming and unstoppable. We
must act now to prepare. We cannot change the demographics, so the
best solution is to reduce the need for care. Time is short, and the need
is urgent.
The world is in the grip of a rapidly accelerating prevalence of chronic
disease. This pandemic is killing us prematurely, lowering our quality of
life, threatening our standard of living, and perhaps even threatening
the future of our species. Our attempts to manage this problem through
our current disease-care system are escalating the costs and presenting
unprecedented political, moral, and economic dilemmas.
Ending this epidemic is a necessity. The alternative is to continue
to choose disease, the consequences of which may be catastrophic. The
rapid rise in chronic illnesses in children and adults is made worse by
the fact that the number of older people is rapidly increasing. Disease-
care costs are increasing and, even at present levels, are threatening to
bankrupt the world’s major economies, with the United States becoming
like a third-world country, unable to pay its financial obligations. The
resulting economic and financial meltdown will place unprecedented
tax burdens on a shrinking working population and have a major effect
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on everything from our lifestyles to our political systems, and even our
military security. Once this happens, daily life for most U.S. citizens will
get dramatically worse.
For those who are retired or approaching retirement age, the available
resources will not be sufficient to maintain the current level of benefits.
This is one reason that learning how to stay healthy is so important. The
National Institute on Retirement Security reports, “92 percent of work-
ing households do not meet conservative retirement savings targets for
their age and income.” Inadequate savings is a big problem for our older
population. Rising disease-care costs along with fewer pension plans,
stagnant home values, and low savings are a bad combination. Add to
that the virtually certain reduction in the purchasing power of the dol-
lar, and it gets worse. Uninsured health costs can be staggering, and
more costs are being shifted to the individual at a time when incomes
are not increasing. Since the cost of disease impoverishes the majority
of older people, staying healthy is not just preferable; it is imperative.
The cost of disease is the reason that the fastest-growing segment of
the population filing for bankruptcy is age sixty-five and older. With
increasing copayments and deductibles and reduction in covered ben-
efits, this problem will only grow worse. To stay healthy, you must take
personal responsibility and educate yourself on how not to get sick.
We have been mortgaging our future by spending money we don't
have and making promises we can’t keep. The U.S. Congressional Bud-
get Office calls the path we are on economically unsustainable. Econo-
mists are telling us that the federal government needs to be making
drastic changes in order to prepare for this time bomb threatening our
future. Significantly increasing the retirement age, drastically increasing
taxes, and reducing benefits have all been proposed. While they may be
economically necessary, these changes are politically unpopular, so the