This missionary book shows you spectacularly simple ways to avoid such chronic killers as cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and obesity. You’ll learn how good nutrition heals the body and boosts the mind; how purpose increases resilience; how love and forgiveness mend the heart!
Health and Wellness: Secrets That Will Change Your Life stands apart because it speaks from proven success. Contained in these chapters is an emphasis on making wise choices about the riches entrusted to each of us – a body that has the potential to heal itself, a mind capable of the extraordinary, and a spirit that longs to be reunited with the Creator.
A list of the 100 confi rmed oldest people in modern times in the
world ranges from 113 to 122 years. Only six of these supercentenarians
were still alive at the beginning of 2014, but many
others can appear in the future. Medicine promises to increase
considerably human life expectancy during the next decades. Until
then, you can do your own part to live longer and better. While research
on twins suggests that 20 to 30 percent of a person’s life span
is related to genetics, many other studies have shown that longevity
depends greatly on lifestyle.2
Modern medicine has created sophisticated techniques to improve
human health. Yet nobody who knows the figures can say that the
war has been won. Seeking health is a daily challenge for every government
and each person. If you like numbers, here are a few facts:
- The estimated global health-care services market for 2015 is
$3 trillion, which makes the health-care industry one of the largest
sectors of the world economy. In most developed countries health
care consumes more than 10 percent of the gross domestic product. - The global pharmaceuticals market is worth more than $300
billion a year. The 10 largest drug companies (six based in the
United States and four in Europe) have sales of more than $10
billion a year and profit margins of about 30 percent. On the other
hand, the cost to develop a single drug may surpass $1.3 billion.3 - Worldwide, according to the World Health Organization, in
2006 there were more than 59 million health workers, including
9.2 million physicians, 19.4 million nurses and midwives, 1.9
million dentists and other dentistry personnel, 2.6 million pharmacists
and other pharmaceutical personnel, and more than 1.3
million community health staffers.
