“The entire healthcare system has become a ridiculous circus of people running in circles following rules and regulations, while the population gets sicker and the pharmaceutical industry gets richer.”
Dr Leyla Ali, Off Balance: The American Way of Health
Often, it’s not until the ‘insiders’ step back and point out the failings in deeply embedded mega-systems like healthcare that people really sit up and take notice. This is an entertaining, highly accessible and big-picture view of a healthcare system seen through the eyes of a pharmacist.
Dr Ali and her choice of contributors, make no bones that the healthcare system is off the rails, through the fence and now hurtling down a cliff! Not only do Dr Ali’s lessons apply throughout the industrialized world, but her advice to those looking for alternatives is both compassionate and timeless.
In a chapter entitled ‘The Power Of The Mind’, she points out that "Advertisers understand how to appeal to the emotions and make the mind believe something that will lead them to more profits...The subconscious mind...does not understand negatives. If you focus on what you don’t want to become, you will create that which you don’t want.”
So all those heartbreaking/shocking/depressing/eye-opening (delete as appropriate) charity ads may actually be partly responsible for increasing the rates of the diseases they’re set up to counter. Of course, in the USA, they also have to cope with direct-to-consumer drug advertising...
The first half of Off Balance takes aim at the US healthcare system and its myriad problems. Dr Ali notes that a range of natural therapies and training opportunities were widely available in the US prior to 1910, when the Rockefeller-funded Flexner report was published. This had its desired effect of promoting highly profitable drug-based medicine over and above everything else. A century of unfettered crony capitalism later, and the US system is groaning under the weight of over-reliance on poorly researched and over-promoted drugs, a population brainwashed into multiple pill-popping, widespread ignorance of natural and non-drug health approaches and a somewhat skewed view of how the human body functions...to name just a few.
Dr Ali’s book offers the reader, especially those new to natural healthcare, a springboard to further research and knowledge that will help them to escape the suffocating limitations of mainstream ‘healthcare’ – better termed sickness management.
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