{"id":10061,"date":"2011-04-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/04\/16\/how-to-save-a-trillion-dollars\/"},"modified":"2011-04-16T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-16T12:00:00","slug":"how-to-save-a-trillion-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/04\/16\/how-to-save-a-trillion-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Save a Trillion Dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/04\/12\/how-to-save-a-trillion-dollars\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK, April 13, 2011: In the scheme of things, saving the 38 billion dollars that Congress seems poised to agree upon is not a big deal. A big deal is saving a trillion bucks. And we could do that by preventing disease instead of treating it, using proper nutrition as the cure.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time in history, lifestyle diseases like diabetes, heart disease, some cancers and others kill more people than communicable ones. Treating these diseases &#8212; and futile attempts to &#8220;cure&#8221; them &#8212; costs a fortune, more than one-seventh of our GDP.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. David Ludwig, a Harvard-affiliated pediatrician and the author of &#8220;Ending the Food Fight,&#8221; says, &#8220;The magnitude of the deficit is small when you consider costs of nutrition-related disease; the $4 trillion that the Republicans want cut over a decade is about the same as the projected costs of diabetes over that same period.&#8221; But this is preventable, and you prevent these diseases the same way you cause them: lifestyle. A sane diet, along with exercise, meditation and intangibles like love prevent and even reverse disease. <\/p>\n<p>The best way to combat diet-related diseases is to change what we eat. And if our thinking is along the lines of diet improved = deficit reduced, so much the better. If a better diet were to result only in a 10 percent decrease in heart disease, that&#8217;s $100 billion project savings per year by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t just fiscal responsibility, but social responsibility as well. And the alternative is not only fiscal catastrophe but millions of premature deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source NEW YORK, April 13, 2011: In the scheme of things, saving the 38 billion dollars that Congress seems poised,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}