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Longer life usually requires lifestyle changes. The doctor can just buy you a little time but then you have to make good use of the time your given.
The leading cause of death is from Coronary heart disease. According to Dr Ornish this disease can be reversed though diet, exercise and stress control (relaxation meditation). They are finding other diseases like some forms of cancer respond to this approach also. Research is going into finding a treatment for cancer along the lines of preventing and reversing heart disease.
People with a 99% blockage are taken straight to surgery. Most hospitals can get them to surgery within 90 minutes of when they enter the hospital. The heart doctors are instantly ready to operate. Then as a part of their recovery from surgery they are sent to rehab where they are taught how to eat properly and exercise. If they follow their diet then they will not need any more surgery. If they do not follow the diet their surgery will not do much to help them. The condition could come right back again. The surgery does not solve the problem, it buys them time to get on a program of diet and exercise that will resolve the issue. Some people are very aggressive with the program. Some do not participate at all. Most people do enough to improve their health and add years to their life but not as much as they could do to improve their situation. Half the people show up for rehab, half of the people that show up follow though with the program after they graduate.
If people followed the program they would not have coronary heart disease in the first place so they would not need any help in that regard. Of course we have known this for a long time and Americans do not seem to want to follow a diet & livestyle that would help prevent this problem. In 1913, a study by Nikolai Anitschkow showed that rabbits fed on cholesterol developed lesions in their arteries similar to atherosclerosis, suggesting a role for cholesterol in atherogenesis.[8][9] By 1951, it was accepted that, although the causes of atheroma were still unknown, fat deposition was a major feature of the disease process. "The so-called fatty flecks or streaks of arteries are the early lesions of atherosclerosis and... may develop into the more advanced lesions of the disease.[10]
Isa 65 20 "Never again will there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not live out his years; the one who dies at a hundred will be thought a mere child; the one who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed."
Drug companies do not care about saving lives all they care about is making money.
People with a genetic predisposition all the more need to follow the right diet plan so as to hinder those genes from expressing themselves. This is not only true for diet and disease but also for behavior issues. For example there could very well be a genetic predisposition for some criminal behavior. Environment then plays a huge roll to regulate if those genes are expressed or if they are hindered from being expressed.
Now your talking about the doctors not the drug companys. The doctors want to avoid malpractice law suits because that can put them out of business, so that is their main priority. If they lose their insurance then they lose their privilege to practice medicine in that hospital. The insurance company has the most to gain when people are healthy.
