You Were Born to Be Healthy
By Otto Janke
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The United States has the most accessible health care in the world, with the most technology, the most doctors, and the most pharmacies of any country. Even so, Americas population is one of the unhealthiest; it doesnt even rank among the top thirty of the worlds healthiest countries. In You Were Born to Be Healthy, author Dr. Otto Janke takes a close look at our health and shows what can be done to improve the situation.
In this guide, Janke shares the idea that good health is attainable for allthat we were born with the capacity for being healthy. He first examines the state of todays health care and the issues surrounding it. Employing a holistic approach, Janke then introduces and discusses eleven critical steps that can be used on the path to better health, including activity, food choices, rest, posture, love, laughter, and friendships.
Advocating a commonsense approach, You Were Born to Be Healthy communicates you are the key to your own good health. We were all born with the ability to be healthywe just need to unlock it, unleash it, and let it rock.
Otto Janke
Otto Janke, DC, has been leading, coaching, educating, and promoting his patients and community to greater health for more than twenty years.
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You Were Born to Be Healthy - Otto Janke
Chapter 1
THE AMERICAN PARADOX
There is a term in health care called the French paradox.
This term refers to a country that has a higher saturated fat content in its foods and higher smoking rates than America, but only a fraction of the heart disease.
So let’s examine the American paradox. Shouldn’t the country that spends by far the most on health care per person also be the country where its residents live the longest? Shouldn’t that country be by far the healthiest in the world? Logic would certainly imply the validity of these ideas. But for Americans, it is not even close to being true. America spends almost $8,500 per person a year on health care, which is as much as two or three times more than any other country. There are third-world countries like Cyprus, Slovenia, and Costa Rica that spend a fraction of what we do in America; their residents have less heart disease and live longer.
How can this possibly be true?
We are Americans. We live in the country where the motto is Spend more; get better.
If you spend more on a house, you expect to get a larger and better house. If you spend more on a car, you certainly expect a larger and better car. But when it comes to our health care, we are not getting what we pay for. In fact, we are getting ripped off.
This is the American paradox. We spend more on health care than other countries, yet it has not shown to pay off for our citizens. We spend luxury, sports car money, but only get the broken-down car that is on the side of the road with the white shirt hanging from the window and the hood opened up—the universal signal of Help! I am broken down.
When I speak to groups or organizations, I will often raise the question as to why the audience thinks this is. That there is no money in helping people to be healthy is given as a reason almost every time. I think this statement is wrong, and the idea makes my skin crawl. Wanting people to be chronically sick so a company can sell its product to them is loathsome. Allowing a continuous flow of intentionally misguided information about what it means to be healthy and not just not sick
is costly in not only dollars but lives, too. We have a government that has written innumerable pages on who will pay for health care but nothing on Americans being healthy.
These contradictions are the American paradox.
Chapter 2
WE USED TO BE A WORLD POWER
Having the most weapons doesn’t make us a world power. A world power leads. It leads other nations by showing them how great it is and how great other countries can be. We have exported democracy around the world, but we have also exported the American lifestyle and the state of American health. Be like us. See how great we have it!
Countries and their citizens all over the globe still want a piece of the American dream.
Take, for example, the health of the second or third generation of immigrants who come to America. Unlike their parents, who hold on to their traditional customs and habits, the kids become Americanized¹,²,³. The children eat and behave like American kids. They adopt American kids’ health habits also. Although the kids might make fun of their parents for not eating the double-cheese-and-bacon-triple-bypass burger, the parents are healthier for it. The second generation will have the same cardiovascular issues as most Americans, while their parents, the first generation, will not.
If we truly want to be a world power again, we need to be a leader in health. We can lower our overall national spending on health care by billions each year, and then take that money and build an even better America, with better schools and playgrounds as the first step. For a country like ours that spends more than any other on a health care system that is not actually health care, you would think we would get better results for the money invested. But we don’t. The product, our health, lags behind that of other countries, mainly because of both a pharmaceutical approach to nearly every symptom or disease, and a lack of progressive thinking about health among our leaders in government. I will discuss in the next chapter how our insurance companies could be the saviors of our country, but allowing them to dictate our health care would be ridiculous. Once again, if we want a healthier America, we need to have healthier