Newsletter July
Our Health Tip:
Caution with “Low-Fat” Products!
So-called “low-fat” products contain far more calories than we imagine. Above all, they lead to a greater consumption of them than normal foodstuffs. “Low-fat” snacks contain only 11% fewer calories than normal snacks, but most think it is about 40% less. Just the name “low-fat” leads to a higher consumption, because we feel less guilty when we eat them. Particularly because of the low-fat label, we take more than we would with normal food.
This was the conclusion of a study in the “Journal of Marketing Research.”
Do you have a tip from your home remedies? Send it to us; perhaps it can be helpful for many people.
Diabetes Out of Control Worldwide?
The extent of a diabetes epidemic was until now considerably underestimated. Instead of the previously assumed 30 million, 246 million adults worldwide are now affected with this disease. This is 5.9% of the adult world population. These figures were published recently in the Diabetes Atlas of the International Diabetes Federation. It is calculated that the number of diabetics will rise to 380 million within the next 20 years.
These figures are much worse than even the most pessimistic prognoses previously forecast by experts.
Our commentary:
Diabetes mellitus, the sugar disease, is already one of, if not the, number one disease worldwide – particularly in our modern, so-called civilized world. One of the main causes of diabetes is the consumption of meat and fish. (We have treated this point in detail in our brochure “Prevention Is Better than Curing,” which you can acquire through our clinic.)
It is possible that the health system will not collapse from seemingly “expensive” diseases, like cancer, for instance, but from this “banal” widespread disease of diabetes. The experts are already reckoning with this in the coming years. In Germany alone, it has been calculated that the direct and consequential costs of diabetes, that is, the costs of treatment as well as damages to the national economy, are 60-90 billion Euros annually.
One of the most important preventive and treatment measures is to switch to a vegetarian diet. And similar facts hold true for heart and circulatory diseases. If these 60-90 billion Euros were to be charged – as a risk surcharge to health insurance and other insurance premiums – to people who eat meat and fish, there would be no problem financing our health system. And perhaps many a person would consider whether he should continue to eat meat and fish …
Another good measure is prevention. The Preventive-Diabetes-Metabolism-Check-Up in the HG Naturklinik is a good start for this. You can determine if this check-up is appropriate for you by filling out our risk factors questionnaire on diabetes. Our internist, Dr. med. Garen Artyunyan, will be glad to advise you.
Concluding Study: Germans Feel Threatened by the Climatic Change
A recent study by the University of Marburg, Germany, concluded that 93% of all Germans feel that protecting the environment is important. Ever more people in Germany feel that the climatic change is a threat to them and their families. According to this study, two out of three German citizens want Germany to take a leading role in international protection of the climate. Only unemployment was given as a greater problem. 80% of Germans are meanwhile in favor of a tax on aviation fuel.
Our Commentary:
In our newsletter of Dec. 6, we wrote that keeping animals is much more damaging to the environment than the total means of transport worldwide; this means all autos, all airplanes, all trains, all ships.
Thus, someone who eats meat and fish is part of the biggest responsibility for the climate change and the disasters connected with it. Unfortunately, this connection is being hushed up. The production of meat and fish is even subsidized with our tax monies. Thus, we ourselves are paying for the fact that we become ill. We ourselves are paying for the destruction of the environment, our Mother Earth. Is there a greater schizophrenia?
93% of Germans think it is important to protect the environment. But only 7% of Germans are vegetarians. To be, or become, a vegetarian is the most effective means of protecting the environment!
Help do something for the environment. Help do something against the suffering of the animals and for Mother Earth. Become a vegetarian or reduce your consumption of meat and fish. And help spread this information. Talk about it in your circle of acquaintances and friends. We’ll supply you with the arguments and facts.
