Health Care Debate Gets Personal
One size fits all health care comes under attack in new book that claims a personalized approach is critical.
Nashville, TN (PRWEB) April 18, 2006
Just like snowflakes, no two people are alike. Just as fingerprints, facial features, and skin tone show each person’s intricate and unique makeup on the outside, each person’s body chemistry describes our differences – on the inside. If we wouldn’t take our neighbor’s blood test to our own doctor for interpretation, or take our neighbor’s blood pressure medication for our own blood pressure problem, why do we take the same vitamins our neighbor takes? Why do we, as such unique individuals, so completely subscribe to a one-size-fits-all approach to health?
60 million Americans are estimated to be overweight; 4 million are obese & 3 million are morbidly obese Half of Americans ages 55-64 have high blood pressure Half of all Americans take at least one prescription drug daily, and one in six are taking three or more medications - every night America spends more than any other country in the world on healthcare and is only 16th in the world in positive medical outcomes Over 575,000 Americans died from cancer in 2005, and one in three will develop the disease One in two Americans have some form of cardiovascular disease, and more than 2,500 Americans die from heart disease each day - an entire city of almost 1 million people every year
These grim statistics point out another simple truth: something is drastically wrong with the way we think about health.
In his new book, Dr. Greg Tefft, one of the country’s preeminent health experts, maintains that it is long past time to rethink health, healing, and longevity and begin approaching good health on a personal, individual and specific basis. Now, based on over 30 years experience and decades of research, Dr. Tefft, along with Bill Quateman, shares the truth about how nutrition reveals the future of health in Your Personal Life: Measuring What Your Specific Body Needs to Live Lean, Long, Strong & Better.
In Your Personal Life (Angel Mind, $21.95; ISBN: 0-9729866-2-6) Dr. Tefft introduces the concept of personalized nutrition and details his system of nutrition measurement where each individual body chemistry is digitally-measured and analyzed for its own exact chemical makeup of foundational minerals, vitamins and toxicities and then corrected for imbalances.
Your Personal Life illustrates how:
Scientifically measuring your own health status allows your body chemistry to dictate precisely what you need for any health goal
Orthomolecular medical research ends the guesswork and shows exactly what each person does need for their own personalized nutrition plan
That separating the facts from the fiction we can see into the future of our own health
To create good health based on scientific reports of what makes you well from the most comprehensive digital measurements available in the world
Recipient of the coveted Reader’s Digest Health Awareness Award, Greg Tefft, a top swimming contender for the US Olympic Team in 1972, collapsed, unable to breathe. A diagnosis of asthma left him nearly debilitated and believing the diagnosis that he would be dependent on prescription drugs for the rest of his life. By chance, he heard about nutrition testing and presented himself for one of the earliest forms of this nutritional approach to healing. Following the dietary and supplement guidelines prescribed by this unknown health care system for 18 months, Dr. Tefft has been symptom-free of asthma ever since.
According to Dr. Tefft, “Personalized nutrition is based on over 60 years of medical nutrition research that guides people to take charge of their own personal health by enabling their own body chemistry to restore balance to mineral and vitamin excesses, deficiencies, ratio imbalances and toxicities, the building blocks of health. This program is more than common sense; it is using the power of laboratory science to live better, longer, and stronger.”
Dr. Greg Tefft is a Board Certified Naturopathic Drugless Physician. Dubbed the Mind-Body Connector, he is the founder of Personalized Nutrition Consultants, a clinical nutritionist and a triple crown Natural Mr. America bodybuilding title holder. Bill Quateman is an author and President of media company, Angel Mind - New media for an emerging world. Your Personal Life: Measuring What Your Specific Body Needs to Live Lean, Long, Strong & Better will be available in better bookstores nationwide in June, 2006. Members of the news media wishing to interview Dr. Greg Tefft, or request an advance review copy of Your Personal Life: Measuring What Your Specific Body Needs to Live Lean, Long, Strong & Better are kindly asked to contact Maryglenn McCombs by phone – (615) 297-9875.
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