Health Crisis

We have a health crisis in this country.  Wouldn’t you agree?  Health care costs are skyrocketing, more and more people going without health insurance simply because they can’t afford it.  Did you know that our two largest industries are the food industry – $1 trillion dollars and the health care industry-$1.8 trillion dollars.  I define the health care industry as the “sickness” industry–products and services used to fix a problem or treat a disease.  One-seventh of all dollars are spent on sickness, yet, I don’t know of anyone who wants to be a customer of the sickness industry.  Look at obesity–80 million people are clinically obese and 183 million are overweight –that’s 63%, up from 35% a few years ago.  Sadly, many of the obese are children as young as 10 and 12.  Something must be done about it.  It begins with you and me.  Fortunately, more and more of us are making lifestyle changes.  According to Paul Zane Pilzer, one of the country’s leading economists, there is a Wellness Revolution going on today.  He predicts that by the year 2010 the Wellness Industry – defined as preventative products and services (nutritional supplements, health clubs, personal trainers, etc) will become the next trillion-dollar industry.