Statistics of diseases
The destructive nature of disease on the planet is absolutely wiping us out. From Cancer to Diabetes, from AIDS to Arthritis, our planet is being overrun by an epidemic of diseases unlike the world has ever seen before. Don’t you think that it is unusual that most of the diseases that are affecting the world today cannot be cured? And the way things are going they never will be cured. We live in a world of ever increasing technological and medical advances and yet, they still cannot find the cure to the simplest colds and flu’s. Diabetes was the 6th leading cause of death. One in Two men will get cancer; One in Three women will get cancer. Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both women and men. Arthritis affects 1 in 5 adults. About 1/3 of adults in the United States are overweight, and 32.2 percent are obese, and a huge number of these obese people are Diabetic.It is estimated that Depression will become the second most common cause of disability, after heart disease, by 2020. It is thought that more than one million people are living with HIV in the USA. In the U.S., chronic conditions affect about 125 million people and are the leading cause of illness, disability, and death. An estimated 60 million people have two or more chronic conditions. Cancer is now the number one killer among children aged 1 to 14 and Cancer rates in children has risen by 20%.
Treatment of degenerative diseases
Orthomolecular doctors and nutritionists believe that the treatment of infectious and degenerative diseases should be a matter of varying the concentration of right molecules (i.e. vitamins, minerals, trace elements, amino acids, enzymes, hormones, etc.) which are present in the body. The infectious and degenerative diseasesof every cell in the body is vital to achieve or restore optimal health; deficiencies in this environment cause the body to be more susceptible to disease and degeneration. The list of necessary nutrients is the same for every human being, but the relative amounts needed by each individual are as distinctly different as the shape of people’s bodies, and for this reason a “one for all” daily nutritional requirement is impossible to specify. Because the kind of food you eat, the physical, mental and emotional
stress you experience, the environment in which you live and work, your inherited biochemical and physiological make-up, the constituents of soil in which your food is grown, the contents of water you drink, the amount of exercise you have, and many other factors, determine the fact that you are a unique individual with unique needs.