Nutrition is important stuff. Nutrition is where its all at. Proper nutrition insures our overall health. If we're eating all right foods but our bodies cannot absorb nutrition we're giving it, we're literally starving ourselves to death. If our "gut" does not contain proper proportion of "good" enzymes to insure we get nutrition we need, we'll become sickly and die.

Proper nutrition in this day and age of GMOs and widespread air, water and land pollution, is tricky at best. Just in my lifetime we have gone from a near pristine world to one where pollution runs rampant.

The Mediterranean Sea, once abundant with life, has been dead since 1950's. The air we breathe is being polluted by not only industry but by infernal combustion engine to point where very air we breathe, which sustains life, became so polluted that pollution was detected at peak of Mount Everest in 1950's.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Censes, International Data Base AGEING GLOBAL POPULATION & FALLING FERTILITY RATES •Mainland China Facing Aging Population Problem. Due to its one-child policy, China's number of elderly people may triple from 130 million to 400 million over next five years, Currently one young person in mainland China supports an average of four elderly people. •All five East Asian tigers--Hong Kong, Republic of Korea, Singapore, Thailand, and Taiwan--have reported sub replacement fertility levels •Experts predict that Italy's population will shrink 28 percent to 41 million by 2050 •The immediate result of "below replacement fertility" is population aging. As older population grows to retirement age, they must rely on rapidly expanding social security and medical systems. •Europe: 35 nations are dying in both Eastern and Western Europe. •20 European countries now fill more coffins than cradles. •Europe's population is expected to decrease from 728 million now to 658 million by 2050, due to declining birth rates. Europe registers world's lowest growth rate at 0.03 percent. In region of Eastern Europe, population growth is -0.2 percent •Germany could easily lose equivalent of current population of what was once East Germany over next half-century. . The home healthcare market in Germany is third largest in world and largest in Europe. It was valued at euro 14.62 billion in 2003. •Russia's population is already contracting by three quarters of a million a year. •Japan: Incentives Offered To Reverse Falling Birthrate. The average birthrate for a Japanese woman was just 1.38 in 1998, Japan's record low and among lowest in world. •50 Years From Now, It'll Be a Grey India. By 2051, only 19% of country's population would be up to age of 14 years. Currently this group constitutes almost 38% of population. The median age will rise by 17 years from 21 years now to 38 years in 2051. Couples are opting for one child, or at most two - and with advancement in health services, about 15% of population will be over age of 65 by 2051. The total fertility rate - number of children per woman) in India would is expected to come down to 2.52 between 2011 and 2016, and is expected to reach 2.1 in 2026. •Canadians are becoming an endangered species," with Canadian fertility rate at an all-time low. Canada's fertility rate stands at an all-time low of 1.5 children per woman, far below 2.1 stand-still replacement rate, with an overall population growth of just 4.3 per cent. •Mexico fertility rates have dropped so dramatically, country is now ageing five times faster than US. •Fertility rates are falling faster in Middle East than anywhere else on earth, and as a result, region's population is ageing at an unprecedented rate. •Would a depopulating planet be a planet of wheelchairs--of increasingly infirm and brittle senior citizens with correspondingly escalating demands for medical services and care from rest of society?

Uninsured America •45 Million Uninsured Americans •How large is 45 million? 45 million uninsured Americans is more than...

• All Americans age 65 and older (35.9 million).

•12 million more than population of Canada (32.2 million). •Nearly five times more than number of Americans living with cancer. There are... • Nearly 150 uninsured Americans for each physician in America • Nearly 7,500 uninsured Americans for each hospital in America • Over 84,000 uninsured Americans for each Member of Congress •People without insurance are less likely to seek health care when needed •97 percent said uninsured patients are having a more difficult time getting access to primary care and therefore are coming first to emergency departments. •94 percent said uninsured patients often have medical conditions that have persisted or worsened because of a lack of early intervention or preventive care. •71 percent said uninsured patients tend to be sicker and have more serious medical conditions than patients with health coverage. •95 percent said uninsured patients are less likely to receive recommended health screening services. •93 percent said uninsured patients lack regular access to medications needed to manage conditions like hypertension or diabetes. •93 percent said it is more difficult arranging or securing follow-up care for an uninsured patient with a serious medical problem than for a patient with health coverage.