It is very disappointing that the richest nation in the world does not correspondingly have the highest life expectancy, as well, which seems to suggest that money can’t buy everything. We find that the United States spends an incredible amount of money each year on pharmaceutical products, far exceeding any other nation, of which commonly prescribed drugs are for ailments such as high cholesterol, high blood pressure, pain, and diabetes. Yet, despite taking these very drugs, which theoretically are supposed to be of benefit to the patients, it doesn’t seem to accomplish the objective, which is to help these patients live lengthy and quality lives.
While prescription drugs may very well have a good purpose behind them, it has to be recognized that America seems to represent a nation that believes that in everything, there is a shortcut. So then, for instance, people who eat the wrong foods, don’t exercise, and don’t follow whatever directives that they have been given that would help them to right their ship, somehow believe that taking a prescription pill will mitigate all the things that they have been doing that are unhealthy and wrong.
The bottom line is that bad habits that aren’t rectified have consequences, which is one reason why, despite all the pill taking, Americans don’t live as long as comparable other Western nations, who are more cognizant that simply taking a pill isn’t going to be good enough to actually have good health. This signifies that a far more wholesome approach when it comes to any sort of medication is the basic understanding that for a positive result, it’s going to necessitate a two-way street in which the patient does their good part to change what needs to be changed, so that they can reverse previous bad habits and take on better habits that knowingly comprehend that a physical body needs to be treated with proper respect and maintenance, or else, it will trend to a undesirable result consistent with those that have not done right by their body.
While there are plenty of drugs that are powerful enough to bring relief and aid to the body, to just rely on these drugs and nothing else is pretty much going to result in a delay of the inevitable, and could be, in some cases, a contributing factor to why bad things get even worse. Look, it has to be said, if prescription drugs, in and of themselves, were the answer to people’s health concerns, then Americans would have the longest longevity, along with being amongst the healthiest of nations, but this isn’t the case. So then, to believe, somehow, that more prescription drugs, or better and more innovative prescription drugs, will somehow resolve the problem gets it all wrong. Rather, there needs to be a reckoning that says there is something seriously wrong with American health, and the resolution for this has got to be something that takes into account that how we feed our bodies and exercise our bodies is our responsibility, which we need to take agency over and be responsible for.