HEALTHY LIFE

Healthy for Life Program

Welcome to this new and exciting concept in preventive medicine. More and more people are becoming more proactive in protecting and even regaining their health. This is allowing them to become less and less depend on medication. Physicians all over the country are turning to this new web site as a means of being able to help their patients potentially avoid or reduce their dependence on medication while at the same time allowing them to loss weight permanently. Just think about the amount of medication that is being prescribed today for high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol, diabetes, heart disease, and osteoporosis. However, the medical community has always encouraged physicians to offer their patients a chance of developing healthier lifestyles prior to beginning any medication at the early signs of these diseases. This is referred to as First-Step Therapy.

Physicians have for the most part been very discouraged with the results of First-Step Therapy and have a tendency to simply write a prescription without offering their patients an opportunity to improve their clinical situation with healthy lifestyle changes. This is happening because physicians believe that their patients will simply not be able to make these lifestyle changes or even if they do, they will not be that effective. This attitude along with the tremendous amount of marketing by the pharmaceutical industry directly to the patient has led individuals to believe that their best option is to just begin taking medication. However, it is becoming more evident each and every day that there is also an inherit risk with taking any medication. In fact, adverse drug reactions to properly prescribed and properly administered medication are the FOURTH leading cause of death in this country.