Whole Foods CEO: There is no "right" to healthcare!

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I wonder how many cabbages one has to eat to get immunity from swine flu? 10? 100?

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Excellent, I think we can dispense with health care professionals entirely, scrap the whole business. All we need to do is eat right and then smooth our passage to 'the other side' with a discreet herbal dose of something suitably lethal. What a plan!

It would shrink the deficit and in the long-run isn't that what is really important?

[Peikko 1,575]

Genius, and we get rid of the heinous insurance companies to boot. What a guy!

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You guys should all boycott ####### Foods.

I don't buy there anyway... I am a Trader Joe's slvt

Then you should be at Steven's toxic foods thread.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

That should apply generally, I feel. No need to report sales to the FBI just because a guy strolls into a Home Depot and buys 1000lbs of nitrate fertilizer for use on his houseplants and several large metal trash cans for his um... trash.

Its his business - the government shouldn't interfere

[Peikko 1,575]

This new approach to societal problems is just great, and cheap too, hurrah!

[Chica Yeyé 41]

You guys should all boycott ####### Foods.

I don't buy there anyway... I am a Trader Joe's slvt

Then you should be at Steven's toxic foods thread.

Hell no -- what if it turns out I am eating something that I luvz and will kill me??I want to die happily fed thanyouverymuch

[MNCouple 3]

You know, not to get off the tangent of belittling his opinion and his experiences within his own organization. I like some of his suggestions. I am one of those people that think the government needs to get out and stay out of this particular matter. I'll be voting against the government getting more involved. I don't think health care is a right. That's my opinion, I have my own reasons for thinking the way I do.

I also agree with the lifestyle changes of leading a healthy lifestyle. My mother was a healthy woman until she started getting older, her lifestyle had a huge impact on her health. She wasn't a drinker or a smoker, but she didn't exercise and she ate poorly. She now has a problem with weight which has domino effected throughout her system wrecking havoc, diabetes which has led to other problems, arthritis which has been impacted by weight, hormonal problems, again, tied to weight. Our family doesn't have the best gene pool for disease immunity. I'm at super high risk for heart disease, diabetes, cancer and a whole slew of other issues.

A while ago I made a choice to change my lifestyle. I no longer eat fast food. I eat fish, dark green ruffage, make sure I have a balance of vitamin rich food with antioxidants and other cleansing properties. I don't eat McDonalds. I don't eat Arbys. I don't eat donuts... and trust me, I frigging LOVE donuts. I'd eat three in one sitting. And do you know what has happened to me? I had IBS, all my IBS symptoms are gone. My pulse and blood pressure have dropped. My body burns the food I eat better and I'm losing weight. I feel healthier, I look healthier. My skin is clearer and brighter. I sleep better. I suffer from severe migraines and am on preventatives, changing my diet has also made an impact with my migraines.

I do not dismiss the power of having a healthy lifestyle... and believe me, if I had known what I know now when I was in my late teens and early 20s... I'd be a much healthier person today because of it. And I'd have spent a hell of a lot less time in doctor's offices too.

So, people may not think the same way that you do, but we all do have a right to our own opinions and beliefs.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I forgot the most obvious thing - we should do away with the prescription system so that people can be free to buy whatever drugs that they they feel will make them better.

[Peikko 1,575]

No one is dismissing pursuing a health lifestyle. It's never a bad idea - but taking advice on health care from a whole foods merchant who believes that MOST people can be cured simply by altering their diet to the type of diet his business promotes? You have to be kidding me.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

You know, not to get off the tangent of belittling his opinion and his experiences within his own organization. I like some of his suggestions. I am one of those people that think the government needs to get out and stay out of this particular matter. I'll be voting against the government getting more involved. I don't think health care is a right. That's my opinion, I have my own reasons for thinking the way I do.

I also agree with the lifestyle changes of leading a healthy lifestyle. My mother was a healthy woman until she started getting older, her lifestyle had a huge impact on her health. She wasn't a drinker or a smoker, but she didn't exercise and she ate poorly. She now has a problem with weight which has domino effected throughout her system wrecking havoc, diabetes which has led to other problems, arthritis which has been impacted by weight, hormonal problems, again, tied to weight. Our family doesn't have the best gene pool for disease immunity. I'm at super high risk for heart disease, diabetes, cancer and a whole slew of other issues.

A while ago I made a choice to change my lifestyle. I no longer eat fast food. I eat fish, dark green ruffage, make sure I have a balance of vitamin rich food with antioxidants and other cleansing properties. I don't eat McDonalds. I don't eat Arbys. I don't eat donuts... and trust me, I frigging LOVE donuts. I'd eat three in one sitting. And do you know what has happened to me? I had IBS, all my IBS symptoms are gone. My pulse and blood pressure have dropped. My body burns the food I eat better and I'm losing weight. I feel healthier, I look healthier. My skin is clearer and brighter. I sleep better. I suffer from severe migraines and am on preventatives, changing my diet has also made an impact with my migraines.

I do not dismiss the power of having a healthy lifestyle... and believe me, if I had known what I know now when I was in my late teens and early 20s... I'd be a much healthier person today because of it. And I'd have spent a hell of a lot less time in doctor's offices too.

So, people may not think the same way that you do, but we all do have a right to our own opinions and beliefs.

Indeed - but we also have the right to ridicule opinions that we disagree with

Healthy living is common sense - it stands to reason that if all you eat are processed foods loaded with fat, salt and sugar as well as a couch potato approach to exercise you're clearly going to have problems.

No one is dismissing pursuing a health lifestyle. It's never a bad idea - but taking advice on health care from a whole foods merchant who believes that MOST people can be cured simply by altering their diet to the type of diet his business promotes? You have to be kidding me.

Self-serving? Oh HELL no!

Edited August 12, 2009 by Private Pike

[Chica Yeyé 41]

I forgot the most obvious thing - we should do away with the prescription system so that people can be free to buy whatever drugs that they they feel will make them better.

Will that include narcotics??? Please say yes

[Peikko 1,575]

I forgot the most obvious thing - we should do away with the prescription system so that people can be free to buy whatever drugs that they they feel will make them better.

Actually, I mistakenly believed that's what one did here, when I saw all those adds for prescription medicine on the tv

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I forgot the most obvious thing - we should do away with the prescription system so that people can be free to buy whatever drugs that they they feel will make them better.

Actually, I mistakenly believed that's what one did here, when I saw all those adds for prescription medicine on the tv

If that comes to fruition I would advise you to invest heavily into the makers of brand name painkillers

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This new approach to societal problems is just great, and cheap too, hurrah!

LOL. You haven't shopped at Whole Foods have you?