Whole Foods CEO take on health care

[ghotiblue]

The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare

I didn't see this posted but thought this was a pretty good article that has been getting some attention from lots of people on the left. A lot of them aren't happy with the CEO of Whole Foods, and there is a lot of talk of boycotts (http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=8322658&page=1), but at least it's starting some discussions.

 

[FreedomFighter8008]

Wow! That's the best darn solution I've read on the whole topic of health care reform.

 

[DocHolliday]

Yeah!

Good wisdom. Eat well, stop getting sick. Go vegan. Go raw.

I've dropped from 220 pounds to 165 by just changing my diet and exercising, and I've overcome colitis, which doctors tell you is incurable.

Most diseases people suffer, diseases of affluence, are completely preventable and reversible with a plant based diet.

More personal responsibility.

 

[dannno]

Good wisdom. Eat well, stop getting sick. Go vegan. Go raw.

I've dropped from 220 pounds to 165 by just changing my diet and exercising, and I've overcome colitis, which doctors tell you is incurable.

Most diseases people suffer, diseases of affluence, are completely preventable and reversible with a plant based diet.

More personal responsibility.

Great job!!

I dropped from 215 lbs to 155 lbs in about 9 months..ate less meat and no fastfood/transfats and ate more organic.. that was about 8 years ago and I've had zero problems keeping it off.

People ask what I was doing for exercise during that time.. I was going over to my friend's house after class and smoking herb every day and playing tony hawk 3 on the playstation.. that was my exercise... I started exercising more a little while after I lost the weight cause I was too damned skinny.

 

[HOLLYWOOD]

Good wisdom. Eat well, stop getting sick. Go vegan. Go raw.

Most diseases people suffer, diseases of affluence, are completely preventable and reversible with a plant based diet.

More personal responsibility.

I'm not a vegan, and I'll always love my ribeye steaks, but vegan association with reversible in cardiology is now a proven fact. You can reverse coronary heart and artery plaque/blockages on a vegan diet over a duration of a year or two, or so forth.

Trans fats, which injects those hydrogen atoms into products to make them smoother, creamer, taste better, is as deadly as it gets. Ask a cardiologist about what they think on trans fats... "Like putting Sand in with the Engine Oil".

Trans Fats haven't been around that long... but the FDA/HHS doesn't do an outright band of hydrogenated products because it would economically destroy too many companies. Government protecting the corporations... while the people die a slow death.

I wonder how Ron Paul stands on this and future legislation?

 

[Brian Defferding]

I like this quote:

Many promoters of health-care reform believe that people have an intrinsic ethical right to health care—to equal access to doctors, medicines and hospitals. While all of us empathize with those who are sick, how can we say that all people have more of an intrinsic right to health care than they have to food or shelter?

So true. Single payer advocates can't justify this. Food and shelter are a more basic need, and yet those things are more left to the market (there is no single payer grocery system or property ownership system, WIC is comparatively smaller than the amount the government spends on health care).