As the most powerful country in the entire world, America’s healthcare system is renowned for it’s advanced technology, innovative surgical techniques, superb medical facilities, and highly trained doctors, nurses, and other medical staff. And while all of this is true, the irony is that America is a first world, Western country that experiences the world’s highest rates of chronic disease such as diabetes, obesity in both adults and children, high cholesterol, heart disease, high blood pressure, and certain of cancer related to these illnesses such as colon cancer. This begs the question that many people all over the world and in America are just beginning to ask; Why is this and how did this even happen?
And although countless — and expensive — research studies have been done in order to find the an
