{"id":152,"date":"2013-09-23T12:50:39","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T17:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bhakticlinic.com\/blog\/?p=152"},"modified":"2013-09-23T12:50:39","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T17:50:39","slug":"7-tidbits-by-nathan-horek-nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bhakticlinic.com\/blog\/7-tidbits-by-nathan-horek-nd\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Tidbits by Nathan Horek, ND"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bhakti Wellness Center July 2013 Newsletter – Tidbits<\/strong><\/em>
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  1. Three fourths of health care workers use complementary and alternative medicine, compared with 63 percent of the general working population.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. In a 2011 study in the journal Health Services Research, Doctors and nurses had more than twice the odds of having used a practitioner-based CAM method during the prior year and nearly three times the use of self- treatment with CAM than support workers.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. The average American between the ages of 19 and 64 now takes close to 12 prescription drugs every year.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Health care expenditures in the United States are the highest of any developed country, at 15.3% of GDP. \u00a0<\/span>The country with the next highest spending is Switzerland, at 11.6% of GDP.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. 75% percent of total health care spending in the United States in 2007 went towards the treatment of chronic diseases, such as diabetes and asthma.<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Approximately half of all chronic diseases are linked to preventable problems including smoking, obesity, and physical inactivity.<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Approximately 50 percent of personal bankruptcies are due to medical expenses.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Bhakti Wellness Center July 2013 Newsletter – Tidbits Three fourths of health care workers use complementary and alternative medicine, compared with 63 percent of the general working population. In a 2011 study in the journal Health Services Research, Doctors and nurses had more than twice the odds of having used a practitioner-based CAM method during […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhakticlinic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhakticlinic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhakticlinic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhakticlinic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhakticlinic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bhakticlinic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"http:\/\/bhakticlinic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhakticlinic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhakticlinic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhakticlinic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}