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How Much Profit Would Pharmaceutical Companies Lose if We all Ate Healthy Foods? - Live Free, Live Natural
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This question isnt an easy one to answer because of the tremendous amount of factors involved. There are various articles claiming that eating a healthy diet of fruits and vegetables can prevent and cure various diseases such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol just to name a few. For the sake of answering the topic question, this article is going to focus on diabetes prevention using a healthy diet.
Why diabetes? Well the American Diabetes Association released results from a study on march 6, 20013 estimating that:
the total costs of diagnosed diabetes have risen to $245 billion in 2012 from $174 billion in 2007, when the cost was last examined.
This represents a 41 percent increase over a five year period! Diabetes is not only a terrible disease, its a multibillion dollar a year industry. Most diabetics are advised to have a balanced diet and exercise in correlation with their medication. The question is: why does it have to come to the situation where the doctor is the one who has to instruct the patient to maintain proper diet and exercise? According to the Mayo Clinic for diabetes:
Ninety percent of those with diabetes have type 2 diabetes. And approximately 80 percent of people with type 2 diabetes are overweight.
At least eighty percent of those with type 2 diabetes could have prevented it by eating healthy and exercising regularly.
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