Life expectancy at birth rose by a few years for both men and women in the last two decades of the 20th century. This has come at an enormous cost in the quality of life of our elders, for they are suffering with more pain and greater disability than ever before in last 15 years of life. People globally are living longer but chronic debilitating conditions are becoming more prevalent.
A recent Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 involved 486 authors in 50 countries who aimed to offer a comprehensive update on diseases and injuries since the last such report in 1990. It found the leading risk factor accounting for the disease burden in most developed nations is diet.
Perhaps most worrisome is the medicalization of childhood which is leading us to illness if adulthood. If children cough after exercising, they have asthma; if they have trouble reading, they are dyslexic; if they are unhappy, they are depressed; and if they alternate between unhappiness and liveliness, they have bipolar disorder. While these diagnoses may benefit the few with severe symptoms, one has to wonder about the effect on the many whose symptoms are mild, intermittent or transient.
Each successive generation is sicker and more diseased than its predecessor. Autism, learning disabilities, ADHD, asthma, diabetes and many other diseases continue to skyrocket. No government agency has ever done, or will ever do anything about it except continue to compile statistics.
The above was taken from an extract of an article from PreventDisease.com about what myths we are told about our health. I am not including the whole article because it is too long but this is the point that really stood out to me. Our children are sicker than ever before and something needs to be done to reverse this ‘dis-ease’. It can be but not necessarily with drugs and labels. It needs adults to deal with their ‘stuff’ and our children to understand more about their minds and their body’s. Food and exercise part of it too. Dont be part of the mainstream and accept these labels, take control of yours and your loved ones health and look outside of the box. There is so much more out there to help us we just need to know where to look !
