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• 65% of the population is overweight, and 25% of those people are clinically obese (U. S. Centers for Disease Control);

• 300,000 deaths per year are associated with being overweight and obese (U.S. Surgeon General);

• 58 million Americans have one or more forms of cardiovascular disease, the majority of which are undiagnosed (American Heart Association);

• 17 million have diabetes, 8 million more than estimated previously, and 5.5 million are undiagnosed (American Diabetes Association) and

• An estimated 16 million people have the precursor to diabetes, called pre-diabetes, or insulin resistance (American Diabetes Association).

IATROGENIC ? 3rd Leading Cause of Death in America
According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, U.S. medicine generates every year around 250,000 deaths caused by a doctor?s therapy or by prescribed drugs.

Dr. Barbara Starfield of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health desribes how the US health care system may contribute to poor health. ALL THESE ARE DEATHS PER YEAR:

• 12,000 -- unnecessary surgeries
• 7,000 -- medication errors in hospitals
• 20,000 -- other errors in hospitals
• 80,000 -- infections in hospitals
• 106,000 -- non-error, negative effects of drugs
• These total to 250,000 deaths per year from iatrogenic causes!!

The U.S. Ranks Second from the Bottom Out of 13 Countries
Of 13 countries in a recent comparison, the United States ranks an average of 12th (second from the bottom) for 16 top health indicators. More specifically, the ranking of the US on several indicators was:

• 13th (last) for low-birth-weight percentages
• 13th for neonatal mortality and infant mortality overall
• 11th for postneonatal mortality
• 13th for years of potential life lost (excluding external causes)
• 11th for life expectancy at 1 year for females, 12th for males
• 10th for life expectancy at 15 years for females, 12th for males
• 10th for life expectancy at 40 years for females, 9th for males
• 7th for life expectancy at 65 years for females, 7th for males
• 3rd for life expectancy at 80 years for females, 3rd for males
• 10th for age-adjusted mortality

                                                                    *source Mercola.com