Ah, American greatness...

The Lazy Way to Success: The Greatest Wealth:

"I read recently where researchers have found that Americans are significantly less healthy than folks in England. We Yanks have much higher rates of diabetes, heart disease, strokes, lung disease and cancer. Our blood pressure is higher and we die younger. This was consistent no matter what the income or education level.

...What factors explain this sorry state? Off the top of my head, I thought of a few.

1. We as a nation have abysmal eating habits. We eat deep-fried, processed, chemically altered, genetically-engineered, nutrition-free, highly sugared calories that are also laced with environmental toxins in the form of herbicides, pesticides, antibiotics, and chemical fertilizers. Yum!

2. We don’t exercise. Instead we watch mind-rotting television programs.

3. We indulge in an epidemic of bad habits.

4. We deprive ourselves of sleep.

5. We are unhappy in our roles as wage slaves.

6. We are under enormous occupational, societal, environmental, and militaristic stress.

7. Our health care system stinks.

Our health care system, which is really a disease care system, is controlled by drug companies whose approach to health is to sell wares that attack and/or mask symptoms while giving us a raft of undesirable side effects. These drugs cure nothing. But most horrific of all, these pharmaceutical companies have turned our nation’s doctors into pill salesmen and our medical schools into product training seminars.

The three concepts you won’t find taught in today’s pharmaceutically-sponsored medical schools are prevention, nutrition, and strengthening the immune system. On the other hand, what you will find is this pill and this pill and this pill and this pill and this pill."