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Health Care: It's All About the Benjamins
The world's most deadly diseases, and the most expensive to treat, are almost completely preventable just by changing diet and lifestyle. So why don't more insurers cover preventive measures?
By Dean Ornish, M.D.
April 11, 2006 - With the legitimate concerns about pandemics of AIDS and avian flu, it's easy to forget that cardiovascular disease kills more people each year worldwide than any other disease. It's the biggest pandemic of all time. Heart disease is so common that we've become accustomed to it, thinking of it as a natural cause of death. Yet there's nothing natural about it.
Diabetes and obesity are also becoming pandemic. In just the past 10 years, the incidence of diabetes has increased 70 percent among people in their 30s, in large part because of the obesity pandemic. As a result, this may be the first generation in which children have a shorter lifespan than their parents. A major complication of diabetes is heart disease, along with nerve, vision and kidney damage.
However, heart disease, type 2 diabetes (once known as adult-onset, though an increasing number of younger people are now getting it) and obesity can be prevented in almost everyone simply by making sufficient changes in diet and lifestyle. We don't have to wait for a breakthrough in technology or a new drug; we just need to put into practice what we already know. If we did, these pandemics could be as rare as malaria is in the United States.
Last year, the landmark INTERHEART study, led by Canadian researchers, followed 30,000 men and women in 52 countries on all continents. It found that nine factors related to nutrition and lifestyle accounted for almost 95 percent of the risk for a heart attack in men and women in almost every geographic region and in every racial and ethnic group worldwide. These factors were: smoking, cholesterol, hypertension, diabetes, obesity, diet, physical activity, alcohol consumption and psychosocial issues such as emotional stress and depression.
In other words, the disease that kills the most people each year worldwide and is the single largest expenditure of health-care dollars is almost completely preventable just by changing diet and lifestyle.
The world's most deadly diseases, and the most expensive to treat, are almost completely preventable just by changing diet and lifestyle. So why don't more insurers cover preventive measures?
By Dean Ornish, M.D.
April 11, 2006 - With the legitimate concerns about pandemics of AIDS and avian flu, it's easy to forget that cardiovascular disease kills more people each year worldwide than any other disease. It's the biggest pandemic of all time. Heart disease is so common that we've become accustomed to it, thinking of it as a natural cause of death. Yet there's nothing natural about it.
Diabetes and obesity are also becoming pandemic. In just the past 10 years, the incidence of diabetes has increased 70 percent among people in their 30s, in large part because of the obesity pandemic. As a result, this may be the first generation in which children have a shorter lifespan than their parents. A major complication of diabetes is heart disease, along with nerve, vision and kidney damage.
However, heart disease, type 2 diabetes (once known as adult-onset, though an increasing number of younger people are now getting it) and obesity can be prevented in almost everyone simply by making sufficient changes in diet and lifestyle. We don't have to wait for a breakthrough in technology or a new drug; we just need to put into practice what we already know. If we did, these pandemics could be as rare as malaria is in the United States.
Last year, the landmark INTERHEART study, led by Canadian researchers, followed 30,000 men and women in 52 countries on all continents. It found that nine factors related to nutrition and lifestyle accounted for almost 95 percent of the risk for a heart attack in men and women in almost every geographic region and in every racial and ethnic group worldwide. These factors were: smoking, cholesterol, hypertension, diabetes, obesity, diet, physical activity, alcohol consumption and psychosocial issues such as emotional stress and depression.
In other words, the disease that kills the most people each year worldwide and is the single largest expenditure of health-care dollars is almost completely preventable just by changing diet and lifestyle.
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医疗保健：一切皆关于金钱
世界上最致命、最昂贵的疾病，却也是最容易预防的；改变一下你的饮食和生活习惯就可以做到。然而，为何没有更多的保险机构来关注这些预防措施呢？
作者：Dean Ornish 医学博士
当人们理所当然地警惕着艾滋病和禽流感的流行时，我们很容易忽视了另一个事实：心血管疾病才是世界范围内人类的头号杀手。并且，这种疾病由来已久。在多数人眼中，对心脏病早就是习以为常了，甚至视之为是自然死亡的原因之一。然而，事实上这种病绝非“自然”。
糖尿病和肥胖也同样变成是常见病。仅仅在过去的10年中，糖尿病的发病率在30多岁的人群中骤升了70%，一个主要的原因就是肥胖病人的增多。这可能会导致史上首次出现一辈人的平均寿命短于其父辈。糖尿病的一个主要的并发症就是心脏病，此外还包括神经系统，视力和肾脏的损伤。
然而，心脏病、II型糖尿病（也称“成年型糖尿病”，不过现在有越来越多的年轻患者了）和肥胖这些疾病，对于大多数人来说，通过简单的改善饮食和生活习惯就完全可以避免。我们不必坐等科技的进步，或是新的药物。需要做的仅仅是将那些已知的良好习惯运用在每日的生活中。如果我们都能做到，这些常见疾病或许也会象疟疾一样在美国绝迹。
去年，一项在52个国家开展的名为INTERHEART的研究完成。该研究由加拿大科学家牵头，跟踪了30，000份案例。研究指出，九大因素，涉及到营养和生活各个方面，对于占95%的心脏病发作风险起了主要作用。无论是在哪个地区或是针对哪个种族的研究，结论都一致。这些因素包括：吸烟、胆固醇、高血压、糖尿病、肥胖、饮食、运动、饮酒和心理问题（诸如精神压力和抑郁）。
换而言之，这种疾病是每年人类的头号杀手和最大医疗支出项目。然而，只需要改进我们的饮食和生活习惯，就是完全可以预防的。
提问者对于答案的评价：非常感谢呢～～～嘻～～～
世界上最致命、最昂贵的疾病，却也是最容易预防的；改变一下你的饮食和生活习惯就可以做到。然而，为何没有更多的保险机构来关注这些预防措施呢？
作者：Dean Ornish 医学博士
当人们理所当然地警惕着艾滋病和禽流感的流行时，我们很容易忽视了另一个事实：心血管疾病才是世界范围内人类的头号杀手。并且，这种疾病由来已久。在多数人眼中，对心脏病早就是习以为常了，甚至视之为是自然死亡的原因之一。然而，事实上这种病绝非“自然”。
糖尿病和肥胖也同样变成是常见病。仅仅在过去的10年中，糖尿病的发病率在30多岁的人群中骤升了70%，一个主要的原因就是肥胖病人的增多。这可能会导致史上首次出现一辈人的平均寿命短于其父辈。糖尿病的一个主要的并发症就是心脏病，此外还包括神经系统，视力和肾脏的损伤。
然而，心脏病、II型糖尿病（也称“成年型糖尿病”，不过现在有越来越多的年轻患者了）和肥胖这些疾病，对于大多数人来说，通过简单的改善饮食和生活习惯就完全可以避免。我们不必坐等科技的进步，或是新的药物。需要做的仅仅是将那些已知的良好习惯运用在每日的生活中。如果我们都能做到，这些常见疾病或许也会象疟疾一样在美国绝迹。
去年，一项在52个国家开展的名为INTERHEART的研究完成。该研究由加拿大科学家牵头，跟踪了30，000份案例。研究指出，九大因素，涉及到营养和生活各个方面，对于占95%的心脏病发作风险起了主要作用。无论是在哪个地区或是针对哪个种族的研究，结论都一致。这些因素包括：吸烟、胆固醇、高血压、糖尿病、肥胖、饮食、运动、饮酒和心理问题（诸如精神压力和抑郁）。
换而言之，这种疾病是每年人类的头号杀手和最大医疗支出项目。然而，只需要改进我们的饮食和生活习惯，就是完全可以预防的。
2007-12-30 17:44:05
回答者：playstation
提问者对于答案的评价：非常感谢呢～～～嘻～～～
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