How to beTotally Healthy
Today, the risk of dying of anything before you are 40 is really very small. But starting at 40 you enter the zone of the 7 deadly diseases. How deadly are they? They kill more than 80% of us. (2) Can you guess what they are? Heart Disease - Cancer - Stroke - Diabetes - Arthritis - Osteoporosis - Alzheimer's.

The 7 deadly diseases will send more than TWO MILLION North Americans to an early grave this year!

I used to think that the definition of aging was to get one of these seven diseases and then to die. Imagine my surprise when I learned that heart disease, our number one killer, is a relatively new disease. The first modern cases of it were reported in 1912, and even then it was extremely rare. (3) How did it go from almost non-existent to the number one spot? What about cancer? Only 3% of us died of cancer a hundred years ago. Today, almost 30% of us succumb to it. (4) Same as with stroke, which killed very few a hundred years ago. Today, it's the number three killer. Alzheimer's wasn't even diagnosed until 1907. Today, 40% of those over 85 are suffering from it. (5) And diabetes has increased 600% in just the last generation. (6)

Obviously, something has gone terribly wrong - in our lifetime. But, we're acting as if all of these diseases are just a part of the normal aging process. Not so! There is nothing normal about degenerative disease. Many of these deaths are totally unnecessary. And that's the tragedy!

When a plane crashes and a few hundred people die, it makes front page news for days. But when a million people die of heart disease or a half a million die of cancer, you'd think there'd be more of an outcry. It's the equivalent of a jumbo jet full of people crashing every single hour of every single day of every single month for an entire year. Year after year.

But here's the good news.

None of these diseases is inevitable. All of them can possibly be avoided or at least delayed - and in some cases even reversed, by taking a few simple steps which I'll share with you before we're done. Because of this, more and more of us will be living healthy lives all the way to a hundred and beyond.

How about you? Do you want to live to 100? With the way trends are going, you may reach 100 whether you want to or not. And that scares some people. We tend to think of old people as frail and sickly, but research on those who live to a hundred finds them "amazingly frisky". 84% function well, and 73% rate their health as good to excellent. So what is their secret? As a group, they like to walk, they are rarely overweight, and 52% take extra vitamins and minerals daily. (7)

If you want to join them, you'll have to adopt many of the same habits. And one of your first goals is to avoid the deadly seven for as long as possible.

Know thy enemy!

There is an adage in war. Know thy enemy. Each of us is being stalked by 7 mortal diseases. If we don't want to be cut down early, we need to find out more about these diseases so we'll better understand how to conquer them.

You have a different future to look forward to. You could make it through the danger zone to live healthy, strong and pain-free for years beyond the average person.

Remember, life is a game you win by finishing last. Great people in ages past, when life expectancy was a fraction of what it is today, were able to beat the odds and live long productive lives. Plato lived to 80, Leo Tolstoy to 82, Thomas Jefferson to 83, Thomas Edison and Ben Franklin to 84, Isaac Newton to 85, Michelangelo to 89, and Frank Lloyd Wright lived to 93. Just think what you could accomplish with a hundred years or more!

In the book "Hunza Health Secrets" are many practical ideas about good health. They would make a good ad for lowering your blood pressure. Eat more fresh fruits, and vegitables like tomatoes, broccoli, potatoes, lettuce, and corn. Eat less eggs, cheese, red meat, mayo, whole milk, and hot dogs.

Blood pressure is the force at which blood presses against your artery walls. It is recorded as two numbers.

140 Number when heart is pumping.
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90 Number when heart is resting.

A blood pressure consistly above 140/90 is considered high blood pressure.

Other test figures are total cholesterol above 240 mg/dL or HDL less than 35 mg/dL are at risk.

Overweight by 20 or more pounds for your body type.

A blood sugar of 126 mg/dL or more.

To find out more about any particular aliment, see Dr. John's Aliments on my home page, and then go to the Curezone for detailed advice.