Gary Springer

Our healthcare industry is the business of disease, not health. The focus of

training for an MD (Doctor of Medicine) is knowing what pill an already sick

patient should take, and most often the pills only mask symptoms, they don't

cure.

The MD's answer and the health care industry's answer for America's

health crisis are expensive treatments for the sick and expensive patented

pills. Current health care reform is all about how to make more money

available for doctors, pharmaceutical companies and the rest of the

healthcare industry. There's no mention of improving patient care or the

most effective means of good health, prevention.

The government issues the license of Certified Public Accountant (CPA) to

designate people qualified to perform investigations of the finances and

operations of corporations and to give opinions on these finances and

operations.

As a CPA conducting financial and operational examinations for a

government agency that regulates corporations, and later as a CPA doing

financial examinations for a multi-billion dollar international corporation,

Springer personally experienced how people who are "just doing their job"

unknowingly support institutional greed or have no feeling of responsibility or

wrongdoing. Moreover, after generations of employees coming and going,

the immoral consequences of policy are completely lost within a menagerie

of procedures done repeatedly without thought by employees who can say

with all honesty, "I just work here".

In 1981, Springer began investigating the discrepancy between the claim of

the American Medical Association that taking vitamins just made "expensive

urine", and the claims of several medical doctors who were using vitamins to

effectively cure and treat many conditions, diseases and sickness.

As of 2009, his investigation of nutrition and nutritional cures spanned 28

years and included critical analysis of more than 40 books and hundreds of

other publications with an investment of over 4,000 hours. Because this study

required more than 13 times the time required to obtain his bachelor degree

in accounting and CPA license, Springer considers himself a nutritionist first,

and a CPA second.

They're Making You Fat and Sick is his report on this 28 year investigation.

The finding of this investigation is that health and profit are competing

interests. Because the corporate profit motive is one of the most powerful

forces in our nation, profit is winning this competition. As a result, the food

industry and the health care industry are the most profitable industries but

both fail in promoting good health.

The most healthful foods are more costly to produce and spoil the quickest.

The most profitable foods are efficiently produced and don't spoil but have

little nutritional value and cause food addiction, insulin resistance, obesity and

disease.

Profit considerations won over health considerations.

Nutritional recommendations are designed to market the most profitable

foods.

Prevention is the most powerful tool in promoting good health. Yet

practically every dollar spent on health care and almost every single hour of

training for doctors is spent on curing the sick using profitable pills and

profitable procedures.

Nutrition is far and above the most powerful preventative and curative force,

the most important ingredient for good health. We are what we eat. Yet

most MD's get only one or two general nutrition courses. Though nutrition is

the most important key for both good health and supporting the body in cure,

it is almost never considered a meaningful part of health care. There's no

profit in it.