The debate about health care rages on as if the term meant anything at all. In fact what the entire nation is involved in is a desperate grab at managing disease - not producing vibrant health. Health care would incorporate personal training, nutritional counseling, dietary supplementation and spiritual support. None of these extremely valuable tools are even a serious part of the debate. 

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TIME magazine produced a cover with the image of President Obama in a doctor's white coat with a stethoscope around his neck. The visual programming is obvious but the suggestion that he is in a position to make the decisions of a physician is frankly nauseating. He certainly has every right to promote the plans he thinks would be best for his administration's agenda but, to portray him as a doctor does a disservice to our entire nation. He is a politician - and a skilled one at that. Based on the "healing" he has produced in our nation to date I will respectfully recognize his inexperience as a physician.

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A very recent meeting discussed the American Hypertension Society's findings that an enlarged heart can be brought back to normal size equally well by a wide variety of medications. Usually, drug manufacturer's jockey for position by setting their particular medication apart from the others through showing a unique benefit. This time the study showed that it really doesn't amtter which drug you use as long as blood pressure gets down into a reasonable range. (The top number-systolic B.P. - needs to be in the low 130's.) Even though this may seem like a pretty unimportant finding, the implications for natural treatments is HUGE. The "take-away" message here is that lowered blood pressure helps the heart no matter how it got lower (within reason - of course). So, if magnesium would drop blood pressure, or fish extracts would lower blood pressure, or garlic..... I think you get the idea!

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