Making Prevention a Priority for Our Future

For the past 10 years, The Huffington Post has been a part of our lives, bringing us news from around the world. It is also a place where individuals with interests and expertise in a wide variety of areas can express their views and share information. I am grateful to Huffington Post for giving us this opportunity to learn and increase our awareness of many important issues. As a medical doctor, and the author of A World Without Cancer, my mission is to encourage the establishment of a "prevention-based society," as Surgeon General Vivek Murthy recently called it. If prevention were a national priority, how would our lives change? That question is followed by another one, which is: What will happen 10 years from now in terms of the health of Americans? Will the year 2025 find Americans stronger, healthier and living longer? We hope that one day soon, and certainly before 2025, Americans everywhere will accept a diet focused mainly on vegetables, fruits and whole grains, low-fat or non-fat dairy, nuts and legumes. Protein will be consumed in the form of beans, fish and poultry. Red meat and processed meat will be kept to a minimum. These are the recommendations of the The Scientific Report of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee that was issued in February, 2015. The Committee was established by the Secretaries of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HSS), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). By 2025, water will be the beverage of...
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