{"id":151,"date":"2014-06-04T20:05:29","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T10:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.usenature.com\/info-blog\/?p=151"},"modified":"2018-06-20T10:29:01","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T00:29:01","slug":"health-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.usenature.com\/info-blog\/holistic-politics\/health-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Health Budget<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #666699;\">*Revised as a general political comment &#8211; 20.06.2018<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Australia&#8217;s Budget still dominates the media,<\/strong> nothing wrong with that, it&#8217;s just a shame that it is because of a political game where people on lower incomes are the losers, causing a negative flow-on effect for the whole of the economy and the country in general.<\/p>\n<p>I am all for self-determination and taking on responsibility for my own well being, but never the less, putting on extra burden to the huge amount of people who haven&#8217;t been that fortunate to carve out a good living for themselves, this\u00a0 budget will not improve the economy or anything else for that matter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>As this blog is mainly about Holistic Health and Lifestyle, lets reflect on the budgets flow- on effect regarding Health and Lifestyle.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1945734187828545\" data-ad-slot=\"2144331746\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The country is struggling already with ever increasing Health cost, pressing an already marginalized group within our community into an even more precarious situation will further increase a number of social factors.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Health cost will rise even more.<\/strong><br \/>\nPoverty stricken people statistically make bad food and diet choices, which will increase chronic diseases and lifestyle diseases such as being overweight, smoking and alcohol related diseases.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Crime rate will increase.<\/strong><br \/>\nAs more desperate people become as more desperate action they take.<br \/>\nWe don&#8217;t need more police, we need less crime.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Economy activity will decrease.<\/strong><br \/>\nIt shouldn&#8217;t come as a surprise to anyone, people with no money can&#8217;t buy anything. Shop-owners will suffer, and in turn will spend less money, and so it continues..<\/li>\n<li><strong>In weak economic times, <\/strong>people will shop selectively; spending for Health will virtually stop, people will be sick more often, once again adding to the community burden of rising health cost.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Actually there are many more negative flow on effects, but lets just concentrate on those mentioned.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Good politics and visions for the future<\/strong> obviously require are much better strategy to stimulate the economy and balance the\u00a0\u00a0<span id=\"Primary_deficit.2C_total_deficit.2C_and_debt\" class=\"mw-headline\">budget to get out of debt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Where are the strategies to lower health cost, crime rate and the level of poverty?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Any long term political decision has to take above issues much more serious, and I am sure if a Government would explain more positive directed\u00a0 strategies, the public would even be much more inclined to tolerate some cuts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Coming back to our Holistic Health Issue.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First of all, if we would be all healthier, our nation&#8217;s health cost would be lower, which would help the budget and the economy.<\/p>\n<p>Unhealthy people cost the economy a lot, they work less, and they use expensive\u00a0 health care facilities. <strong>Unfortunately, in bad economic times,\u00a0 they stop going to Natural Therapy providers,<\/strong> because the Government or Medicare does not provide bulk billing for Natural Health or Prevention.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why are we that unhealthy?<br \/>\n<\/strong>Health education at schools is lacking in conviction and needs to be improved.<\/p>\n<p>As long as it seems to be &#8220;<strong>not cool<\/strong>&#8221; to do something healthy, we have a problem, education could tackle that problem.<\/p>\n<p>Food supply, once again; statistically it shows that lower income people eat more junk food and supermarket processed food than healthy fresh food.<\/p>\n<p>If this trend could be reversed by educational programs starting already at schools, the whole country would benefit as well as the economy.<\/p>\n<p>Looking around the isles of a supermarket, half of the stuff on the shelf shouldn&#8217;t be allowed. Processed food is deliberate spiked with sugar, salt and artificial everything to make it attractive and to stimulate more appetite and cravings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is anyone wondering why we are one of the countries with the most obese people?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Obesity is not just meaning being overweight, it actually means; diseases, esp. chronic diseases, such as\u00a0 <\/strong>Diabetes &#8211; Cardiovascular Diseases &#8211;\u00a0 Muscular-Skeletal diseases and the list goes on and on. There is hardly anything that is not effected negatively by a diet of processed food and over-eating. <strong>The costs associated with that are astronomical.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What does the Government do about that, and by the way; the resolution doesn&#8217;t&#8217; even need &#8220;Research Funds&#8221;, it needs good positive policies, esp in food manufacturing and labeling, as well as protective guidelines for\u00a0 advertising.<\/p>\n<p>I am not favoring either side of politics, I am favoring constructive, long term positive type of politics, which I like to call Holistic Politics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where are the innovations?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe economy, as important as it may be, it not the main part which needs addressing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Health and living condition,<\/strong> spreading wealth to a wider level of the public, by educating about incentives for &#8220;Self-reliance&#8221; and Self-employment&#8221;, and remembering the Chinese proverb of &#8221; give someone a fish and he will eat for one day, give someone a fishing rod, and he will eat every day&#8221; &#8230; or something similar. The point being, there needs to be more education and incentive to give people possibilities or ideas to make a living in a more constructive and creative way to escape or don&#8217;t fall into the welfare trap.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To finalize today&#8217;s blog&#8230;<\/strong> it&#8217;s all about education for lasting improvement in health and nutrition, as well as in teaching to see self-employment opportunities, and break out of the reliance on someone providing jobs, obviously not a job to be achieved in a hurry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What can we do?<\/strong> By shopping healthier, we actually encourage food-manufacturers to produce healthier food choices.\u00a0 This is a the reason that we see now much more Organic Produce in our shops. With other words, anyone interested in a healthier life should stop buying processed food, if enough people do that, the message will hit home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And for all the Natural practitioners; <\/strong>educate about nutrition, weight loss and shopping habits, even give Free lectures or workshops, it probably will increase your client base, and as more people you can reach as better.<\/p>\n<p>Kind Regards, Dieter L.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health Budget *Revised as a general political comment &#8211; 20.06.2018 Australia&#8217;s Budget still dominates the media, nothing wrong with that, it&#8217;s just a shame that it is because of a political game where people on lower incomes are the losers, causing a negative flow-on effect for the whole of the economy and the country in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editors-comments","category-holistic-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usenature.com\/info-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usenature.com\/info-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usenature.com\/info-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usenature.com\/info-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usenature.com\/info-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.usenature.com\/info-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usenature.com\/info-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usenature.com\/info-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usenature.com\/info-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}