Posts Tagged ‘disease’

Green Tea Information: Should You Be Considering the Benefits of Green Tea?

April 28th, 2012

Are you tired of seeing people order double mint lattes with whipped cream or large iced drinks with artificial fruit flavors and artificial sweeteners, knowing they are literally promoting disease and a mountain of health related expenses for themselves?

Green tea information has the ability to change a person’s life for the better. Learning about the health benefits of consuming green tea products could be the next step to improving people’s eating habits.

Do you have friends and relatives who continually make bad food choices and don’t realize they are bad, or that they have choices? The cost of medical insurance is almost prohibitive to carry in the U.S., and in countries with socialized medicine waiting times for treatment can be agonizing.

For many, the cost of becoming healthy and staying that way requires only a small lifestyle change. If people would begin with small changes, the increased quality of their health would encourage them to consider additional improvements in the quality of their diet.

We could drink green tea instead of diet soda, or take a quality nutritional supplement instead of buying a pastry every day. Stay away from a fast food restaurant and with the savings we can purchase powerful tea extracts that are shown to prevent heart disease and cancer. Why wouldn’t we want to make this change in our life if we understand the health benefits?

Our goal should be to place green tea information in plain view of as many people as possible. We should emphasize that Chinese people have recognized the health benefits of tea and have consumed it for 4000 years. They have far less cancer and heart disease than Western countries. This drink is the number one beverage consumed in China, Korea, and Japan.

Green tea contains polyphenols, specifically catechin compounds that are powerful antioxidants. These catechins, especially EGCG (epigallocatechin gallate), fight free radicals that promote disease. As an added bonus, EGCG fights microbes, viruses, and bacteria.

Would you believe that this beverage has been shown to control or prevent heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer’s, gum disease, type 2 diabetes, glaucoma, and rheumatoid arthritis? It also reduces or lessens the effects of high blood pressure, LDL (bad cholesterol), free radical damage due to smoking, the effects of excessive alcohol consumption, acne, bowel problems, and impaired immune system just to name a few.

Believe me, if we can get this green tea information into thousands of people’s hands and get them thinking about better health with a few small lifestyle changes, we will be a step closer to having healthier friends and relatives.

Medical Malpractice Suits: Death By Medicine

February 11th, 2012

A recent report has found that Americans are more frightened of dying at the hands of their doctor than they are of a plane crash. The overwhelming majority of those who participated in the survey said that information about malpractice suits and medical errors would be the single most deciding factor in trusting a healthcare provider. These people must have heard that medical errors cause more deaths in the United States every year than car accidents, AIDS, or breast cancer.

In fact, for the airline industry to parallel medical errors in mortality rates a 280-person jet would have to crash every day of the year. This would account for the over 100,000 people who die annually due to complications in medical care, not to mention the nearly 2 million who are maimed and disabled. This malady is called iatrogenic disease, a disease that is a direct result of medical care. What is causing this epidemic? Many agree that the cause is over-treatment. More medicine is administered than necessary, people are hospitalized unnecessarily, and doctors prescribe drugs instead of healthy lifestyle choices. This is a major problem and it shows no signs of stopping.

In the ten year period between 1983 and 1993 the incidence of death by medical error, or iatrogenic disease, jumped 260% overall and 850% among patience receiving outpatient care. These statistics could only be an indication of the true numbers, because medical error is not often recorded on death certificates. Some people blame the increased number of deaths on a greater number of prescriptions, but the number of prescriptions issued has increased less than 40% in 10 years, compared with the 260% increased death rate. Instead, some doctors blame increased usage of anesthesia, especially among those receiving outpatient care.

Medical malpractice insurance rates have been skyrocketing, causing a small crisis among doctors who must be insured in order to practice. They complain of medical malpractice lawsuits going out of control, large cities awarding record settlements, too many people filing claims. Well can you blame people for filing claims? Doctors must be held accountable for their prescriptions, and if a doctor writes you a prescription that hurts you they deserve to be taken to court! This is truly an epidemic, and it must be stopped by holding irresponsible healthcare providers responsible. One in five Americans has experienced medical errors directly or has a family member who has suffered a medical error. If you feel you have suffered unnecessarily at the hands of a doctor, seek legal council and work it out with a lawyer.

Medical Malpractice Suits: Death By Medicine

December 5th, 2011

A recent report has found that Americans are more frightened of dying at the hands of their doctor than they are of a plane crash. The overwhelming majority of those who participated in the survey said that information about malpractice suits and medical errors would be the single most deciding factor in trusting a healthcare provider. These people must have heard that medical errors cause more deaths in the United States every year than car accidents, AIDS, or breast cancer.

In fact, for the airline industry to parallel medical errors in mortality rates a 280-person jet would have to crash every day of the year. This would account for the over 100,000 people who die annually due to complications in medical care, not to mention the nearly 2 million who are maimed and disabled. This malady is called iatrogenic disease, a disease that is a direct result of medical care. What is causing this epidemic? Many agree that the cause is over-treatment. More medicine is administered than necessary, people are hospitalized unnecessarily, and doctors prescribe drugs instead of healthy lifestyle choices. This is a major problem and it shows no signs of stopping.

In the ten year period between 1983 and 1993 the incidence of death by medical error, or iatrogenic disease, jumped 260% overall and 850% among patience receiving outpatient care. These statistics could only be an indication of the true numbers, because medical error is not often recorded on death certificates. Some people blame the increased number of deaths on a greater number of prescriptions, but the number of prescriptions issued has increased less than 40% in 10 years, compared with the 260% increased death rate. Instead, some doctors blame increased usage of anesthesia, especially among those receiving outpatient care.

Medical malpractice insurance rates have been skyrocketing, causing a small crisis among doctors who must be insured in order to practice. They complain of medical malpractice lawsuits going out of control, large cities awarding record settlements, too many people filing claims. Well can you blame people for filing claims? Doctors must be held accountable for their prescriptions, and if a doctor writes you a prescription that hurts you they deserve to be taken to court! This is truly an epidemic, and it must be stopped by holding irresponsible healthcare providers responsible. One in five Americans has experienced medical errors directly or has a family member who has suffered a medical error. If you feel you have suffered unnecessarily at the hands of a doctor, seek legal council and work it out with a lawyer.