Dr. Andrew Weil, Founder & Director, Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, U.S. presenting at the 2017 Global Wellness Summit at The Breakers Palm Beach, FL, USA October, 10 2017.
I’m making my lifestyle changes NOW! I don’t want to wait until it’s too late. I don’t want diabetes or heart disease or cancer. I’m going to invest in my health.
Interesting. When i taught my child, i did it with making it fun. All teachings should be fun. I totally agree we need to go in that direction. I use to call diets... "die it"... who wants to be apart of that. Healthy choices are needed... "live it"
On Indian Reservations, it depends on the reservation, regarding space and suitability for home gardens or farms, ranches, etc. On the Navajo Reservation, many people had/have space to grow hot chili peppers, squash/zucchini, corn, and other veggies, etc., plus in some places, pinon trees (pine nuts) grow wild/naturally, etc. For Navajos who can grow foods and/or collect pine nuts, it is AWESOME for their health, to combine these healthier foods with the standard American diet/fattier/more unhealthy supermarket foods found at stores like Bashas, etc. (and hopefully, many Navajos, or increasing numbers of Navajo people, are avoiding more unhealthy foods...). I imagine the general situation in many other Indian reservations is about the same or worse, not too many that are better, unless they have very little of their diet that comes from supermarkets, etc.
3:07 EDUCATE - If you can explain and Give Information, which they can understand, connect with their own experiences and implement, they can move in right direction. MODEL Healthy food patterns and Lifestyle. SPEND TIME in company of people who are more active, better eater, happy.
While I agree with him regarding politics, people need to understand that there’s no conspiracy regarding your diet unless you choose to comply. It’s literally one area where you really have a choice, yet you eat junk.
It took a major educational campaign on TV to cut down tobacco use and it make youth to not even think it’s a cool thing as much as it used to be. Now the problem is alcohol in a way it’s kind of the new cigarette and the way that it’s fashionable to drink and no thought about the health consequences. Sadly years later many celebrities and people did jump on the Health bandwagon but mainly for clout and not always helping people. Sodas and sugar needs to be taken down and in the future hopefully look back and see how crazy we are for drinking sodas
as a Citizen of Canada at 74 living in Montreal, I do not have a family doctor - those who graduate end up working in the USA or in Europe. My name is on the waiting list, God knows,when my number comes up. Pls do not try to copy or imitate us. You can go to a walking clinic - last time a "doctor" there gave me a codein medication, that caused me urinary retention. In the EM there was only ONE single doctor, and I told to a sympathetic nurse what to do. The whole thing costs me CAD $ 50 with taxi fees, and did not get one cent of compensation - one can not sue a doctor in Canada. The PM tells us we are the best country in the world. HAHAHAHAHAHAH
I don't mind the taxation of drugs like cigarettes (though think the profits should go into rehab centers) but I think it's a terrible idea to tax foods just cause they are unhealthy. But that's the more libertarian part of me talking.
@@isadoramg5153 it's not incentivizing anything, it puts a strain on the economy. While also punishing people for buying what they want. Also what they say is healthy or unhealthy now will change in 5 years.
@@Dudeinator yea but we can start with the overall principle of nature that the closest to the natural form, the better. I’m not talking about implementing some incentives but rather withdrawing them from the cheap toxic food. There are regulations that make this type of Production more profitable. It started with propaganda and getting people addicted to synthetic food, sometimes with the help of the administration. If you think about it, it would be cheaper if we had decentralized, local food chains that regulate Food themselves through their local realities and necessities. I don’t know about you but I live in Brazil, a country where regulations are made by a few in a centralized fashion, that disregard individual and local realities, and that favors the business of synthetic toxic food (and stimulate lots of other nasty cultural habits)
@@isadoramg5153I believe it is more of a culture issue than government regulation problem. We have to work at creating culture of healthy foods in our communities rather than rely on government to solve unhealthy foods. Really it starts with us and our kids, we need to take responsibility and teach them, not just throw them into school systems where we dont really know what they are learning. Same for them being exposed to advertisments and such.
@@Dudeinator perfect, I completely agree. We cannot expect change to come topdown, it’s way harder. And precisely, we have to be aware of the culture we live in. And we live in a sick one, where being sick is the norm. I live in a really poor area in the northeast of Brazil and it is sad to see that the things you can buy that are cheap are really bad for health. People are strong here because they live really active and in a cooperative way, but you can see people are getting slowly intoxicated and weaker because of the food that is more accessible.maybe we share the view that we should have less government interventions (specially centralized ones) and let the local chain regulate itself as much as possible, while being agents of health ourselves
For every condition there’s a pill 💊 Growing up I never saw it. I exercise and eat right. I’ll be 70 next year. And I’m on no medication. Healthy lifestyle does help.👍🏽
