Expensive Health Care Doesn't Equal Good Health by Sharon L. Wallenberg

 

US has most expensive health care in the world and, according to UN statistics, some of the least healthy people in the world.  Why?  Meat and dairy!  Cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, & more, can be prevented, often reversed, with plant-based diet.  Eating fruits, vegetables is more healthful & affordable than meat and dairy which causes these diseases.

The meat and dairy based diet causes catastrophic health concerns - such as skyrocketing diabetes, cancer, heart disease, potentially devastating antibiotic resistance, along with accompanying rising health care costs. 

 

A plant-based diet is the best for optimal health – human, animal, and planet.  It has been proven to prevent and reverse heart disease, prevent and treat cancer, and prevent and reverse diabetes, the three largest causes of mortality and morbidity in both men and women. 

 

In addition, it is globally sustainable.  The meat and dairy based diet is not sustainable because of the vast amounts of water, grain, and land needed, and the pollution produced.  Methane from animals raised for food traps heat in the atmosphere much more effectively than carbon dioxide, making it the single largest cause of global warming.