Journalist Bob Garfield researched health articles in The Washington Post, USA Today, and The New York Times. His research showed that, according to so-called experts,
- 59 million Americans have heart disease
- 53 million suffer migraines
- 25 million people have osteoporosis
- 16 million struggle with obesity
- 3 million have cancer
- 12 million have severe disorders such as brain disease.[1]
The results are that 543 million Americans are seriously ill, which is shocking in a country whose population is only 266 million people. Garfield’s response to this was, “Either as a society we are doomed, or someone is seriously double-dipping.”[2]
I don’t know the answer to this discrepancy, but it appears that our whole country is weighted down by personal challenges. For some, it is one or more of those illnesses…
CSS Publishing Co., Inc., One Heaven of a Party, Year C Sermons on the First Readings, by Charley Reeb