The disconnect in healthcare and the only medical divorce that has caused millions of lives.
Without ill people, the medical fraternity will not be profitable. Aside from most health professionals, all other stakeholders (pharmaceutical companies, food and beverage industry, etc) will not tell you the key components of prevention because, without treatment, they lose sustainable business. As a result, there is no congruity between the prevention and treatment spheres within the health fraternity.
I prefer to coin it as: a medical divorce. Over centuries, it has caused millions of lives to be lost.
In addition, the food fraternity rarely speaks to health, and the health and medical spheres rarely place an emphasis on what patients should be eating. As a result, there is a disconnect where people continue to eat products that are high in sugar, refined carbohydrates, including processed foods, or toxic chemicals.
A majority of the public is somewhat naive and respond to the aggressive marketing that is propagated by companies that (knowingly or unknowingly) offer products or services that can have unattenuated consequences on one’s health and well-being.
Most of the diseases and conditions that patients are facing are a result of poor eating (aside from other factors, also depending on whether their condition is a result of acute, chronic, hereditary or traumatic reasons), sedentary behaviour, inadequate sleep, high stress levels or smoking. The sad reality is that most health professionals are not trained in the latest, evidence-based nutrition or exercise prescriptions. They are also briefly informed about nutrition and dieticians at medical school or within their relevant health professions curricula. They continue to focus their approach on treatment (that’s what pays the most) and rarely on prevention.
In essence, treatment sells; they need people to be or become sick. Prevention is not only a precautionary to people becoming ill but it’s also prevention of wealth accumulation in the health and medical fraternity (those that unethically “profiteer”).
Through the COVID-19 pandemic, it is hopeful that governments, companies, agencies and other organisations place a high emphasis and budget allocation to quality healthcare, healthcare resources and healthcare infrastructure. With the global population rising (and expected to rise up to 10 billion by 2030), it provides further impetus for an emphasis to be placed on prevention, and not solely on treatment (unless legitimately required).
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