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Dear Readers and health advocates,

Thank you for all your inspiring feedback and messages of gratitude.

I have posted an excerpt to give you a ‘taste’ of our wonderful book with the introduction below. Enjoy!

Andi Lew

INTRODUCTION

DON’T BLAME YOUR DOCTOR!

It’s a paradigm shift - from sick care to well care!

 

‘The Doctor of the future will give no medicine; rather he will educate his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the prevention of disease.’

Thomas Edison

 

We’d like to begin with an apology. We are so sorry that you didn’t know all the secret information we are about to share with you… sooner. Your doctor doesn’t bear the entire responsibility for forgetting to tell you the 7 secrets to staying healthy, as the title of this book suggests — maybe you also forgot to ask them. Perhaps all along the quality of your life has been dependent on the quality of questions you ask. High quality questions create a high quality life.

Now, these 7 secrets are not hidden; for some years they have been available to anyone motivated and diligent enough to search them out, but they were like the scattered pieces of a puzzle. Not until now have they all been brought together to reveal the total picture of what true health is, and how to achieve and maintain it. The truth contradicts much of what we have been led to believe for so long.

We go to our doctor when we are sick, but where do we go when we’re ‘well’? What, see a health professional when you’re well?! It may sound odd, but it’s actually very wise because it’s so much easier to stay well than to get well. For so long now we have been conditioned to work ever longer and harder, to ignore warning signs and suffer in silence or take a pill and soldier on, that we have forgotten what health really is.

More and more people at ever-younger ages have become reliant on often unnecessary drugs. ‘Selling sickness’, the false belief that illness is a natural and unavoidable state for human beings, has become an unquestioned truth, fostered by a multi-billion dollar industry which has controlled the mainstream health profession for decades.

But despite the proliferation of new and powerful drugs on the market, diseases such as cancer and heart disease grow more prevalent with each passing year, obesity is fast becoming the number one health risk, and depression and other psychological imbalances are afflicting more people than ever before. No matter how advanced medicine becomes, sometimes waiting for symptoms to appear before reacting is just too late. The chemical and surgical intervention movements have had a good long run, but they just haven’t delivered what we all hoped and believed they could give us — health!

Since the dawn of the new millennium; wellnesshas itself become a new multi-billion dollar industry. The old ways have fallen short of their promise, and increasing millions of people are now exploring alternative therapies, attending seminars and buying books on healing, searching the internet for solutions to their unanswered questions. It’s a wellness revolution fuelled by the quest for anti-aging, health and vitality. People who once wouldn’t have thought twice about popping a sleeping pill or pain killer are astonished to discover the effectiveness of techniques such as herbs or auto-relaxation, or that chiropractic is actually 250[1] times safer than an over-the-counter anti-inflammatory!

The pendulum has swung for so long toward surgery and drugs, and now it is inevitably swinging just as hard the other way – toward wellness. Rather than merely being healed of illnesses, people want health; they are sick and tired of being sick and tired!

In response to this tidal wave of social awareness toward vitality and self-determination, the business culture has made changes that would have been unthinkable in the past:

• Weight-loss is a multi-billion dollar industry, with gyms, diets, personal fitness trainers, books, calorie control centres, exercise and nutrition DVDs, etc.

• Nutritional companies and food manufacturers are going ‘preservative free’.

• International fast food chains have added ‘healthy’ options with reduced fats, sugar and salt.

• Sales of Botox for beauty and Viagra for virility are booming.

• Proliferating ‘lifestyle’ businesses and magazines promote quality of life.

• Workplace health and safety officers are being appointed within companies to monitor conditions of employment.

• Organizations are investing in yoga or meditation rooms for their employees as the link between health and productivity becomes common knowledge.

• Employees are offered company sponsored massages during lunch breaks.

• Multinational companies offer employees cash incentives for healthy, preventative life styles.

• In the U.S alone; sales of soy foods reached $3.2 Billion in2001. A 16.9% increase since 2000. (Spins, 2002)

• The demand for wellness and prevention is so great that even pharmaceutical companies are selling vitamins and supplements.

• Chiropractors like Dr Fabricio Mancini; author of Chicken Soup for the Chiropractic Soul and other leaders in the over 100-year-old profession lead this return to wellness origins. Some no longer use the word ‘patient’ as it refers to ‘one who suffers’. Changing this label has changed the whole perspective on sickness vs wellness.

 

It appears the western world has decided that simply not having symptoms just isn’t good enough anymore! We have collectively created a worldwide wellness revolution through our demand for true health. So if you are tired of the drug merry-go-round with all its side effects, and if you would love to have youth and vitality without intervention, this book is for you!

 

Prevention is better than cure

There is a revolution taking place, and you are part of it. The questioning of medical authorities has arisen because not only are more people becoming sicker, but health care costs are rising beyond the ability of most individuals and even governments to pay. The physical, social and financial costs are just too high, and spiralling further out of control. The current generation wants to take back control of their own health, and thus the wellness revolution was born.

So, it’s time to abandon the overuse of invasive surgery and the myriad of drugs that are being prescribed, and find a new way! These 7 Things make so much sense, and if you apply the principles glowing health can be achieved easily, without side effects! As an added bonus to creating ‘optimal health’, you may decrease the effects of aging and take years off your appearance.

‘Aging is much more of a choice than people ever dream. One of modern medicine’s great breakthroughs is a realization that the body is not an object, but a process with no preordained limits.’

Deepak Chopra

 

So why do so many doctors rely on medication and forget to tell us how to achieve optimal health? What is it that gives top athletes, business people, and entertainers the vitalistic edge? We have liaised with many of the most inspired and informed people on earth, and the time has come to share with you some of the world’s best-kept health secrets. This book reveals information on the whole spectrum of health, including chiropractic, nutrition, and how taking medication and consuming diet drinks might be killing you! It will inspire your health and wellness ideas and may challenge some old beliefs. You are about to discover what Lleyton Hewitt, Lance Armstrong, Dr Phil, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Madonna , Mel Gibson and countless other leaders have all used to achieve excellence in their chosen fields. You see, we don’t need anymore studies to show that exercise benefits you or to prove that fresh food is better than packaged food. What we need is to understand that our health choices bear consequences that are either positive or negative.

We have so much to gain from embracing this wellness revolution — knowledge, empowerment and a better quality of life for our children, and their children. There are already millions of doctors beginning to work in partnership with chiropractors, personal trainers, and a host of new health carers. They have been inspired to question their assumptions, to look into the power of vitamins and nutrition, and keep up-to-date with research into the latest drugs and their side effects. The old ways are changing, the new way is here.