Find out how to reduce healthcare costs by investing in a healthy lifestyle here. True, it costs more money up front, but as Benjamin Franklin is famously quoted as saying “A stitch in time saves nine.”
One of the best ways to create health is to eat organic foods. Pesticides used in non-organic foods have been linked time and again to diseases and disorders ranging from cancer to Parkinson’s to autism and ADHD.
Yes, organic foods cost more, but consider that the typical American family pays less than half of what other cultures do because so many of our unhealthy crops are subsidized (sugar, corn, wheat, soy, canola, etc.).
Joel Salatin, founder of Polyface Farms and author of “Folks, This Ain’t Normal: A Farmer’s Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People and a Better World“, says “If you think the price of organic food is expensive, have you priced cancer lately?”
Another way to create health is to eat fresh-as-possible foods. Americans typically eat far more processed foods loaded with these subsidized crops than other cultures do.
Take a look at this Time photo-essay to see that most other cultures eat far more fresh food and less processed food than Americans do. Many times, processed foods contain preservatives, trans fats, sugar, artificial colors, antibiotics, growth hormones and, sometimes, even carcinogens. No wonder Americans have such high healthcare expenses!
Do you think what you eat can have an impact on your health? I know it does from both my personal and professional experience.
“A growing body of research suggests that sugar and its nearly chemically identical cousin, HFCS, may very well cause diseases that kill hundreds of thousands of Americans every year, and that these chronic conditions would be far less prevalent if we significantly dialed back our consumption of added sugars.
A starchy, high-carbohydrate diet is associated with the recurrence of colon cancer. 
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Recovery from autism is possible. Most, if not all, cases have gut dysbiosis, which is fed by the Standard American Diet (SAD) full of sugar and processed foods.
