Medical Expenses. In 2004, health care spending in the United States reached $1.9 trillion, and was projected to reach $2.9 trillion in 2009. The annual premiums for family coverage eclipsed the gross earnings for a full-time, minimum-wage worker ($10,712).
A new study says that medical bills cause financial troubles for more than 2.2 million Americans each year, and medical expenses account for about half of all U.S. bankruptcy filings. 75% of bankruptcy filers have medical insurance but fall upon financial hard times anyway when their policies either lapse or do not cover certain illnesses.
And, as you may have seen in Michael Moore's recent film, Sicko, it is not affordable to be sick in the U.S.
Food Expenses. We spend 1.3 Trillion on food, most of which is processed wheat, dairy, meat, sugar, and soy. These foods are making us sick, as you will see. By Juice Feasting, shifting our food choices, and becoming the healthy, switched-on people we have the potential to be, we can truly shift close to 4 Trillion dollars of the U.S. economy each year, making what we are talking about here the greatest act of social change now available. Why are shopping the produce section, eating a cucumber, drinking a green smoothie, and being healthy such revolutionary acts? First, we are going to look at our modern health challenges, and then investigate what the science is behind Juice Feasting and a life-affirming plant-based cuisine.