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Better Life Fitness To Hold Free Seminar

By Rick Price, Community Writer
September 26, 2016 at 04:52pm. Views: 126

REDLANDS>> A free seminar offered by Sam Benavides of Better Life Fitness will be held at the Loma Linda University Drayson Center located at 25040 Stewart St. in Loma Linda. Titled “The War On Our Health: Three Reasons We Need Lifestyle Intervention”, the one-hour presentation to preview the CHIP program will be offered twice. The first session is scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 12 at noon, and the second session is scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 13 at 5:30 p.m., both will be in the Martinson room in the conference area of the Drayson Center. According to the Centers for Disease Control, more than 70 percent of approximately 1.8 million annual deaths are from chronic illnesses. These chronic illnesses, such as heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, can be considered preventable due to the fact they are lifestyle related. “There are several factors to suggest we’re in the middle of a perfect storm, yet little is being done to deal with the problem of chronic illness as evidenced by the fact the casualties from these medical conditions keep rising, year after year,” said Ashleigh Benavides of Better Life Fitness. For example, in a recent report from the American Association for Cancer Research Conference, it was determined that 90-95 percent of cancers are caused by lifestyle or environmental factors and no more than 10 percent are attributed to genetic factors. Also, in 1994, there was a scientific paper published in the Australian Journal Clinical Oncology titled "The Contribution of Cytotoxic Chemotherapy to 5-year Survival in Adult Malignancies". The purpose of the study was to accurately quantify and assess the actual benefit adult cancer patients received from chemotherapy treatments for the most common types of cancer. The study concluded that chemotherapy was 98 percent ineffective and 2 percent effective at improving survival in cancer patients. Medical errors now account for more than 250,000 deaths per year, according to a study by John Hopkins University. This ranks medical errors as the third leading cause of death behind cardiovascular disease at 600,000 deaths and cancer at 590,000 deaths, respectively as compared to statistics by the Center for Disease Control. Martin Makary, a professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine who led the research, said in an interview that, “It boils down to people dying from the care that they receive rather than the disease for which they are seeking care.” “We’re living a lifestyle, “the good life,” that is largely detrimental to our health and leads to early death; the medical solution of choice not only fails to fix the problem, but in many cases accelerates our demise, sometimes by misdiagnoses, incompetence and/or miscommunication, and other times by intentional greed or apparent indifference to the failure rate. At the end of the day, the result is a rising number of sick people, misdiagnoses and death,” Ashleigh said. “This is not to suggest doctors are to blame; we have some of the best physicians in the world who devote their lives to helping people. The question however, becomes, does this represent a “rare combination of factors” to make this a perfect storm, or is it a well-coordinated scheme by policy makers for money, power and control?”

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