In Canada, a public financed medical care system is costly and deteriorated as budget cuts reduced resources available. The tidal wave of food-related disease threatens to bankrupt medical care systems if existing methods of diagnosis and treatment continue to be used.

The medical view is focused on each individual. The assumption is that medical doctors are available to rescue each person from any and all misadventures. The cost of individual rescues is high and increases every year. The solution in Canada to rising costs is to ration services, punishing all health care workers and many patients who are denied services and have to wait in queues.

The medical view is that expensive measurements have to be made on each person and detailed images taken. MDs have an exclusive interest in drug treatments and see themselves as drug prescribers and not problem solvers. The cost of individual management is extravagant and many have argued that the results of individualized treatment of obesity, high blood pressure, elevated blood sugar and elevated blood fats are poor. If the results were excellent and the dire consequences of these risk factors were avoided, you could argue that high cost of individualized care was justifiable.

A public health view can be quite different from a medical view. To pursue public health you need tools that reduce or remove the causes of disease. You also want strategies that improve an entire population’s resistance to disease. For example, you set up elaborate infrastructures to assure that the supply of water and food is relatively free of infectious agents. When you observe increasing obesity associated with increasing blood pressure, diabetes, heart attacks and strokes, you turn to tools of public education and persuasion hoping to modify the food selection and eating habits of everyone at risk. Your efforts should begin and schools and continue into the adult community where bad habits flourish. You may pass legislation to add warnings to food labels and to restrict the use of foods known to increase risk of disease ( e.g. trans fats, salt, fructose). If you find that your public education efforts are not reducing high risk behaviors, you will seek measures to mitigate the consequences. Seat belts mitigate high risk behaviors, reduce injury and reduce fatalities in car crashes, for example.

Nicholas Wald of the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine in London, England suggested that a “polypill” should be given to everyone aged over 55 to reduce heart disease and stroke by 80%. His idea would reduce most of the cost of individualized care. Several existing drugs would be combined: three different drugs to reduce blood pressure, as well as aspirin, a statin to reduce cholesterol, and folic acid to reduce homocysteine levels.  Wald estimates that the polypill could save some 200,000 lives each year in Britain alone. The move toward a public health solution to expensive endemic diseases will be resisted by all who earn their living by offering individualized care. 

Instead of the polypill, I advocate diet revision using the Alpha Nutrition Program, exercise and nutrient support with Alpha DMX a blend of critical nutrients with therapeutic levels of key nutrients such as calcium, vitamin D, potassium, folic acid, thiamine, pyridoxine and cyanocobalamin.

I would refer people of all ages who are at risk of vascular disease to fitness centers with Alpha Nutrition Program food services. Alpha DMX would be distributed at low cost as a public health measure. Noncompliant people who continued high risk behavior would pay increased premiums for medicalcare.

While their may be benefits to public health attempts to prevent disease, there are no lasting solutions without a change in each person's behaviors. What is need is more self-responsibility.

Wald, N. J. & Law, M. R. A strategy to reduce heart disease by more than 80%. British Medical Journal, 326, 1419 - 1423, (2003).

Michael Hopkin 'Polypill' could curb heart disease and stroke.
Nature news 27 June 2003 http://www.nature.com/nsu/030623/030623-13.html

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