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Prevention of Chronic Diseases through Proper Nutrition
“From nature comes the disease, and from nature will come the cure.�
-Paracelsus (1493-1541)
In its annual report, the World Health Organization warned that cancer, heart disease, and other chronic degenerative diseases, which already kill more than 24 million people a year, will impose increasing suffering and disability on hundreds of millions of others. The eight deadly diseases that send people to an early grave according to the WHO are as follows: heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, osteoporosis, arthritis, Alzheimer’s, and obesity. For the first time in the history of the United States there are more obese people than people of normal weight. We have become a nation of overfed, yet undernourished, individuals. Researchers and health professionals around the world now consider obesity itself a degenerative disease. Obesity is the number 1 to increase the onset of all degenerative diseases.......

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