By Katy Talento for DAILY CALLER
The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement garnered lots of coverage around the election and healthy eating has really gotten more attention than usual: “Food has become one of the biggest stories of the 2024 Presidential Campaign,” Forbes reported.
However, long before the MAHA movement was cool, alternatives to Big Medicine, like Health Care Sharing Ministries (HCSMs), were making Americans healthy again.
Years ago, some of us noticed an odd correlation; Americans are the richest people on Earth, spending more on health care and consuming more medications than any other group in human history. And yet, we are also one of the sickest, fattest, saddest populations, with a declining life expectancy for the first time in generations. To be sure, food plays a critical role in our health, as the fearless MAHA leader Robert F. Kennedy Jr. points out.
Underlying the MAHA movement is a recognition that Big Medicine is never coming to save you. In fact, it can be a net harm. Medical errors have been reported as the third leading cause of death, behind heart disease and cancer. The safest and the most powerful hands in which to place your health are your own, since 80 percent of chronic illness and premature death could be prevented through healthier choices around food, movement and smoking.
