Every day, our Facebook homepage posts are filled with heartache from friends and family experiencing illnesses and life-changing disabilities due to chronic disease. Our instantaneous world connection built a delivery system that brings stress and the loss of how chronic disease now touches more of our lives worldwide.
A Known Threat
This threat of chronic diseases is no longer a threat but is now declared by the World Health Organization as the number one killer on the planet. Chronic disease is currently the cause of over sixty percent of deaths worldwide, up 10% from last year alone.
Alarming Facts By the World Health Organization:
- Chronic diseases are now the leading cause of death and disability worldwide.
- Noncommunicable conditions, including cardiovascular diseases (CVD), diabetes, obesity, cancer, and respiratory diseases, now account for 59% of the 57 million deaths annually and 46% of the global burden of disease.
- High-risk factors – high cholesterol, high blood pressure, obesity, smoking, and alcohol – cause the majority of the chronic disease burden.
- Changes in dietary habits, physical activity, and tobacco control significantly reduce the rates of these chronic diseases, often in a relatively short time.
- Heart attacks and strokes kill about 12 million people yearly; another 3.9 million die from hypertensive and other heart conditions.
- Over one billion adults worldwide are overweight; at least 300 million are clinically obese.
- About 75% of CVD can be attributed to the majority of risks: high cholesterol, high blood pressure, low fruit and vegetable intake, inactive lifestyle, and tobacco.
- Sustained behavioral interventions are effective in reducing population risk factors.
Welcome To Another 21st Century Lifestyle Choice
Chronic diseases include heart disease, strokes, cancer, diabetes, arthritis, dementia, and many others. These diseases are widely understood to result from our current lifestyle choices. However, over the past several decades, research has shown that these chronic illnesses are largely preventable if we learn to make different choices. In other words, if we live differently.
Unfortunately, people worldwide consume more energy-dense foods – high in sugar and saturated fats – or excessively salty. This nutritional shift to fast and processed foods, in combination with our sedentary behavior, is occurring at an alarming rate.
Predictions for the future are that this chronic illness crisis, as bad as it is today, will get much worse. Cancer rates have been predicted to increase by 50%, and one in three children born in the USA today will develop diabetes. As other research continues, it only highlights more that our toxic modern lifestyle is the cause.
Still, the Best Cure is Prevention
As you know, prevention is the best cure. With today’s knowledge of identifying the cause, our expert team is here to help you change and build a healthier future. We want to help you create a better lifestyle, including what you think, eat, and use your body.
If you are currently suffering from a chronic disease, please do not hesitate to call us. We are here to help and look forward to posting your new lease on life success story! SHARE!!
For Your Health,
Dr. Steven M. Gillis
