- Six in ten adults have a chronic disease and four in 10 adults have two or more
- Chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes are the leading causes of death and disability
- Cardiovascular disease causes 1 in 3 deaths or more than 859,000 people each year in the US alone
- 1 in 6 Indians is prediabetic
- Cancer is the second leading cause of death globally and is responsible for an estimated 9.6 million deaths in 2018. Globally, about 1 in 6 deaths is due to cancer.
Chronic diseases are on the rise. The question is, why?
We live in an environment that perpetuates disease manifestation.
The foods we eat are often processed, nutritionally depleted and highly inflammatory In our external environment we are surrounded by toxins and chemicals, synthetic lights, and poor air quality
In our modern-day and age, we often live our day-to-day lives sitting, chronically stressed, sleeping poorly, and with little to no physical activity. Our ability to connect, mentally, spiritually and emotionally, is constantly challenged by society’s fast-paced, technology derived lifestyle.
Individuals afflicted with chronic illnesses are becoming more and more desperate for answers. Not one chronic disease is developed because of ONE root cause. There are just too many compound factors that lead to the expression of disease.
The fact of the matter is, it did not come suddenly. The disease process started long before it was diagnosed. It can start as long as ten or twenty years before you know you have the disease. Usually, the disease process starts when a sufficient amount of factors come together to start you down the road to having a diagnosable disease. These factors can be any number and combination of things. It could be too many refined foods, excess amounts of saturated fats and fried foods and protein, not getting enough vitamins and minerals, accumulation of toxins, not enough exercise, not enough rest, exposure to pollutants and chemicals, a weakened immune system, a high-stress life, genetic predisposition to the disease, chronic bacterial or viral infection, and other factors. Not any ONE of these things are THE reason for the sickness; it is the combined factors.
To answer the question, "How do we get Chronic Diseases?", we must personally look at what we do, our daily habits, and make sure that we do not allow factors to come together to push us down the road to being diagnosed with a major chronic health problem. Avoid refined food products and animal protein. High fat, High Animal Protein, and Low fiber diet plays a crucial role in all Chronic Diseases cause and progression.
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