Meanwhile, here's a great idea, and one this geezer would take advantage of in a heartbeat...
To Lower Health Costs, Legalize Catastrophic Health Insurance Plans for All
Insurance plans should include payments for good gyms and nutritionists. But people donāt want to follow self health promotion
Look at an old movie. Or a rerun of an old game show from the 1970s. People dressed well. They were thin. They were not zombies out on antidepressants
They were aware of what to do
Right now people donāt know how to eat
Doctors donāt know what to tell people to eat
If the doctor comes from an Asian culture they donāt have an awareness of the pic
Son we get from supermarkets and fast food. The stuff Renee live on
I know of a woman with congestive heart failure. She is on diuretics. She asked her MD if she should look at her diet. The doctor said eh you can cut back on salt by not adding it to your food
Look at an ingredient label. Look at the sodium
Look at the list of ingredients
If it is more than three ingredients do you know what they are?
Hydrolyzed yeast extract- thatās salt. Autolized yeast extract- salt
Natural flavor- salt
Does anyone know how much salt they should limit to per day?
Do people know what a gram is? We donāt use that word in cooking. Why do they put it on ingredient label
Translate a gram to a teaspoon or tablespoon
Can people visualize it? In regular table salt 15 grams is about 1 tablespoon. Same w granulated sugar
Teaspoon, tablespoons are weight. Grams are volume. Powdered sugar less weight per volume
People arenāt going to do that math
Look at how much sugar is in a can of soda
Googling- A standard 12-ounce can of soda contains about 3.1 to 3.25 tablespoons
Get a tablespoon out and fill it three times pour those into a 12 ounce glass. You do that 3 times a day thatās just the soda people drink. Then look at cereal, pastry, chocolate,
Look at salad dressings and packaged food. Do people go in and shop in produce, meat only? Primarily? Frozen?
This is what people do to their bodies
You can do catastrophic health care all day long, but you go to a physical rehab unit at any hospital and look at the patients
Congestive heart failure, diabetes, cardiac disease, vascular disease, amputations, kidney disease,
Some are there through no fault of self care but a lot are there not taking care of preventable illness
Americans are not interested in cures and maintenance.
Cooking and eating right is difficult to manage with all the conveniences and temptations, time saving options
Complete lack of awareness from home, doctors etc
Would work if most people thought like geezers who take care of themselves.
Theyāve been brainwashed in this area as well as in politics