As far as my friend goes, he's doing better. He's taking baby steps toward adding truly healthy choices to his lifestyle. I won't even attempt to detoxify his off-kilter mindset scammer that places such ridiculous paradigms of health on a pedestal. As long as he's getting healthier, that's what matters most... for now.
An old man goes to a doctor for a thorough medical examination. After the examination medicals fake the doctor tells him that he has good as well as bad news for him. He asks the patient what he would like to hear first. The patient says he would want to hear the bad news first. The doctor says that you have cancer and you have only about two years. The old man becomes worried that his life will be over after two years. He asks the doctor for the good news. The doctor says that he has Alzheimer's and in about two months time he would have forgotten what the doctor has told him today.
Forty years ago we completely changed our lifestyle. Why? We were tricked by a fake cholesterol scare campaign that caused millions of people to get tested. The test method was incorrect medicals bad and fake slim healthy people were put on a diet. The diet was a simple reversal of our trusted traditional diet. It became known as the pyramid diet.
Next, look at how you are eating and sleeping. Are you eating foods that are rich in bone-building nutrients like calcium and magnesium? Are you eating enough protein for muscle tone? When you sleep, practice perfect spinal alignment - get rid of that old worn mattress and get a back friendly model that will help you improve your posture.
What are they to do? If they are going to get out of debt, something in their lives is going to have to change. The private school is going to have to go, camp may be out, or they are going to have to start making more money. The same is true for you. If you want to get out of debt, you are going to have to identify why you went into debt and change that behavior or pattern.
The most alarming statistics of all are those that show type2 diabetes and morbid obesity already affects our children. These are diseases none of us had heard of just 20 years ago.