Many of the diseases that cause a constant drain on health care budgets can be prevented by proper nutrition.

So why aren't the big payers getting involved?

I mean, even like a 1% decline in excess body fat could alone save tens of billions.

You'd think at least the health insurance industry would try to get people to eat healthier,

to try to pay out less money?

Well, one could say the insurance industry actually benefits from

high health care costs because these rising costs are simply passed on to both individuals

and employers in terms of higher premiums, and insurers take a fixed percentage of these

premiums as increasing profits. They get a piece of the pie, so the bigger the pie, the unhealthier everyone is, the bigger

their piece.

As such, insurers have not done as much as they could help reduce health care costs

because lower costs would hurt their bottom line.

What if there was a medication that could successfully

treat and even reverse heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, many other

chronic conditions without any negative side effects, and offered the promise of dramatically

reduced health care costs? Imagine all the advertising there would be to promote it. Imagine how much

they would charge. A drug that cannot just treat but cure diabetes and these other diseases?

Then what if you were told that medication exists today is available to everyone in unlimited

quantities at low cost, but the vast majority of the American public has never

heard about it.

You want a solution to significantly reduce health care costs?

The solution is to use food as medical treatment, specifically foods made from minimally processed

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