As we move into the 21st century, we find people primarily suffering and dying from what is known as silent killers or chronic diseases. These include coronary artery disease, cancer stroke, diabetes, arthritis, cataracts, Alzheimer’s diseases and the list go on and on.

How long do you expect to live? One of the primary ways to evaluate a nation’s health-care system is to look at the death rate of a particular country.

In 2006, the top 10 diseases that cause the death of Malaysian:

Malaysia Ministry Health Dept

As you might have imagined, we have spent a fair bit of money on health care system and new hospitals mushrooming in the country. We have MRI and CT scanners, angioplasty, bypass surgery, total hip and knee replacement, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, antibiotics, advanced surgical techniques, intensive care units.

Sure, you may argue our country facilities are not advanced as those in the USA.

But in spite of the billions of dollars Americans spend on health care, USA is considered one of the worst industrialized nations in the world when it comes to life expectancy. The health care system they claim is the best in the world is actually near the worst.

Does it really matter if you have great doctors or even the most advanced hospitals in the world?

Source: This post is taken from the book “What your doctor doesn’t know about nutritional medicine may be killing you” by Ray. D. Strand, with statistics and some wordings changed to accommodate to this blog.

Watch out for my next post: A Wake-Up Call - Your Quality Of Life

“How could this happen?” For many, that was the inevitable question Tuesday in response to the news that Dana Reeve, the sunny and vibrant widow of Christopher Reeve, had died of lung cancer at the stunningly young age of 44.

“While it is the more the more unusual scenario that someone who never smoked would develop lung cancer, 10 to 15 percent of the cases do occur in non-smokers,” says CBS News health correspondent Emily Senay.

“One of the major problems is, by the time it’s detected, it’s often quite far advanced.”

“What I didn’t know is that lung cancer is the number-one cancer. We’re always looking for breast and ovarian and uterine, and I’m a non-smoker, and I live in the country, so I think ‘I’m good,’ so I was completely shocked,” she told “Entertainment Tonight” interviewer Kathie Lee Gifford. (”ET” is also part of CBS, Inc.)

Source: CBSNews