Research Statistics and Implications

The effects of our general inattention to nutritional needs, the one-size-fits-all approach to nutrition-mediated wellness, and our dependence upon symptom relief rather than cause-relief medicine is negatively echoed throughout, in a bevy of wellness statistics.

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) have gone to great lengths to rate the average U.S. health status poorly when compared to the rest of the world. In a society where we spend over a trillion dollars per year on health care—more than any other country in the world—you'd expect the best health in the world. Unfortunately, we're not getting our money's worth and for many valid reasons (the following is based on postulations by the WHO and other agencies) :

• Our dependence on crisis-relief and symptom-relief medicine rather than cause-relief medicine

• Our dependence and overuse of both legal and illegal drugs

• Our lack of regular exercise and recreation

• Our stressful lifestyles

• Our polluted environment

• Mass production methods for food production, processing, storage, and distribution which depletes nutrient density and bioactivity

• Nutrient-depleted topsoil
• Our lack of emphasis on preventive medicine including (and especially) proper eating habits

I would like to add one more reason to this list: our reliance on a one-size-fits-all approach to the preceding eight reasons given, especially as it applies to the last reason i

The inference here by the WHO and others is that, if we would remove or improve the eight (or nine) health-restricting dilemmas stated above, the average health status for Americans would improve significantiy. This makes sense! Then maybe we'd finally get our money^ worth from our trillion-dollar-plus-per-year healthcare budget.

As should be clear by now, this book's primary focus is on reaching the final frontier of nutrition as a people, at which point we may overcome the majority of nutrition-related wellness obstacles that plague society. unfortunateiy, one-size-fits-all thinking predominates throughout the current nutritional themes distributed in our nation. its negative repercussions and health-threatening consequences will become apparent to you in the following, highly condensed overview of statistics and research. The progressive shift of research interests toward the final frontier of nutrition, (i.e., personalization) among health authorities will become dramatically apparent. While the following research clearly demonstrates the ineffectiveness of one-size-fits-all nutritional precepts, it will comfortably bring you to the logical and inevitable wellness solution that we seek, which is to address the needs of each person on a specific, for-your-body-only basis.