Living a healthy lifestyle such as walking at least 5 miles a day, eating whole (natural) foods, using alcohol and caffeine in moderation while staying away from tobacco entirely will likely add many years to your life and keep you from poisoning your body with prescription drugs.
It’s not just that...The Doctors are looking to make money just like the rest of us. The prescribe (give away prescription medicine) to get you hooked and to make money. That is just the start unfortunately.
Most Doctors have contracts with their medicinal providers and tend to prescribe prescriptions accordingly... Just a fact - and it add to the expense of care along with unnecessary medicine... There is more...but I am tired of trying to persuade the stupid...health care lovers...
Actually, I think annual checkups are a waste of time (medical and patient). You either have a problem and need medical attention or not. Annual or semi-annual checkups are another method of obtaining monies from the populous. It does work though - most seem to think that you have to have a checkup annually (great for the Doctors though).
That is another of the falsehoods being spread by those that gain. It actually costs more for everyone to do annual checkups than it does if no one does....but you won’t hear that because the money flows.... Yes, it may save the life of one in a thousand of less..but what the hey...
My Daddy lived an extra 21 years because instead of following your advice when his doctor told him to put his affairs in order and resign himself, he had his first (later scond and third) pacemaker implanted, which took place in a hospital by the way. He regularly took medication as prescribed, and he flourished thereby. He lived to see all his grandchildren grow up and to meet six great-grandchildren, because he did not follow your advice.
Because of modern medicine, Daddy lived longer than every one of his older brothers (his sisters lived into their 90s; the menfolk were dead by age 75).