104827 Resource 104505 101017 95276 1129114937099 1129228355834 Controlled Can you reduce Rx meds for a healthier approach to disease?

Diet and exercise provide similar, if less dramatic, results to many medications - but with fewer side effects and greater benefits.

<p>Most physicians prefer prescribing medications for treatment and prevention of degenerative disease and illnesses. Oral insulin agents for non-insulin dependant diabetes, anti-cholesterol drugs for heart disease and stroke, antihypertensive meds for high blood pressure to name just a few categories. Yet proper diet and exercise provide many of the same benefits. </p><p><img alt="Jeff Miller's medications and holistic meds" hspace="0" src="http://seniorsafety.com/images/Jeffs_Meds.jpg" align="left" border="0" /></p><p><strong><em>I do not mean to imply you should get off all your meds</em></strong> or stop using them in a particular case. Simply that many are over prescribed and / or over used with little thought for a more healthy approach. </p><p>So why reduce your Rx meds?&nbsp; Because there is a vast amount of scientific research which proves that in many cases diet and exercise work for the reduction or prevention of many diseases. In addition, while most drugs come with a vast array of side effects (check out the insert with your next prescription), a healthy diet provides many additional benefits than for your current diseased state. </p><p>Studies have found links between diet and heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, stroke, Alzheimer's, obesity, and certain forms of cancer. And exercise increases the benefits when combined with a healthy diet. Both diet and exercise aid in weight management, increase overall well-being, reduce depression, and slow the biological aging process.</p><p>Most&nbsp;physicians get there post graduation education from drug companies and published manuals such as the Physician's Desk Reference (PDR), . The drug company rep visits the doctor's&nbsp;offices to give, free samples and literature.</p><p><strong><em>Prescription medications should be used with a similar mindset&nbsp;to vitamin and mineral supplements - as a supplement to a healthy diet&nbsp;and exercise with lifestyle changes, not as substitutes for them.</em></strong></p> 10 application/xml false Alzheimer's cancer diet exercise heart disease hypertension obesity Physician's Desk Reference (PDR) prescription medication supplements Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) 66.251.33.19 66.251.33.19 jmiller false true false false true 205857 false false true false false false true 104505 blog blogsite/SeniorSafety/web