We have all heard that you don't know where you are going unless you know where you came from. But what about your health? Your health is more than just an accumulation of your actions from past to present. It is also the environment that shaped it.

What is the Unites States current health environment?

• The World Health Organization (WHO) ranked the US 44th in the world for overall health
• The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) found that out of the top 13 countries in the world the US ranked 12th.
• The US has more doctors per capita, more hospitals per capita, more money spent on research and more drugs and surgery than the whole world combined, yet the US has some of the poorest health in the world.
• The US spent $2.2 trillion dollars on health care in 2006 more money than the whole world combined.
• The United States uses 80% of the worlds drugs but only makes up 5% of the worlds population.

Over the last 50 years rates of high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, nerve diseases, autism and autoimmune diseases has skyrocketed. The US is getting sicker, not healthier. Clearly something is wrong. Clearly there needs to be a change.

While exploring the content of TheHealthWord.com I want you to explore where your health is today, for two reasons:

1. So you can contribute more
2. Not so that you simply understand where your health is today but so you can create a vision of where you want to be in the future

Yours in Health,

Dr M.

About The Health Word

TheHealthWord.com is a community, an educational resource and a source of motivation centered around the topic of health.

The Health Word was founded by Dr. Malik Prihar with one single mission: to spread the word on health and motivate others to do the same.

In todays society, many don't place importance on health until they or someone that is close to them falls seriously ill. We live in a society that is always looking for the quick fix, when we fall ill we rush to treat the symptoms but rarely pause to listen to what the symptoms might be trying to tell us. We have a fever, we treat it with tylenol. We have an ear infection, we treat it with antibiotics. We are thirsty, we drink diet Coke. We are a society that is always looking for a quick fix and we are a society that is falling more "ill" with each passing day.

The human body is an amazing machine that is capable of healing and preventing many of the diseases that plague us in our society today but we need to feed our body with the right fuel and treat it as nature intended so that it operates at its optimal potential.

The Health Word was founded to raise health awareness, to educate and motivate the general public and to help spread the word on health.

The Health Word can’t tell you to remove foods from your diet or remove stressors and toxins from your environment. But it can help motivate you. It can inform you. This information is intended to create an awareness, to get you emotional, to get your attention and allow you to understand our current paradigm of health so that you can change your belief system. Remember, you and only you are responsible for your health, not me or any other doctor or person. So learn as much as you can and take charge of your health and your future!

Help spread the word and tell your friends about TheHealthWord.com.