(12-02-06) Barry Sears: ?We Can Eat Our Way Out of the Current Health Crisis?

DANVERS, Mass., Feb. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Last week, Dr. Barry Sears, creator of the Zone Diet, offered a surprisingly simple solution to the financial dilemma that the medical insurance industry faces: Reduce silent inflammation(the cause of many chronic diseases) using the combination of the Zone Diet and high-dose fish oil.
"Type 2 diabetes is the wildcard that threatens future healthcare costs
and silent inflammation is at the root of diabetes. The greatest threat might be the younger population in which obesity and type 2 diabetes are growing at epidemic rates," said Dr. Sears.
Sears spoke to leading executives in the health insurance industry at the America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) conference who meet once a year to discuss how to contain the growing impact of healthcare on the economy.
Dr. Sears presented clinical evidence that the Zone Diet and high-dose fish oil have dramatic impacts on diabetes in a very short period of time.
The dilemma for the health insurance industry is that anti-inflammatory diets and high-dose fish oil are currently non-reimbursable, thus making it difficult for patients to follow these recommendations on a lifetime basis.
The solution may lie with the processed food industry, he said.
"The processed food industry got us into this problem of silent
inflammation, and it can also get us out of it. The challenge to the health insurance industry is will they pay for these processed foods and supplements that have been demonstrated to have clinically equivalent, if not superior,results to current drug treatments?" he asked. "Economically, it may become more cost-effective to eat our way out of the current epidemic of type 2 diabetes rather than to treat this lifelong condition with drugs."
Dr. Sears also discussed how a new line of frozen Zone meals from
Cedarlane Foods is undergoing testing in reversing type 2 diabetes in multiple clinical trials. These frozen Zone meals are indicative of this new generation of therapeutic foods that can have a rapid impact in chronic disease conditions.
"If these trials are successful, then health insurance companies may have to answer to their members why such a therapeutically superior treatment program is being withheld from them," he said.

Source: profnet.prnewswire.com

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