When you study with the Global College of Natural Medicine, not only will your career options expand, offering you a brighter future, but you will also be healthier, happier and quite possibly wealthier. Let me explain why. My name is Dr. Johnstone and I am the Director of the Global College (GCNM).

The Threat Hanging over Our Heads

Most Americans are not aware of a very powerful threat hanging over our heads. It’s not terrorism, oil shortages or some other political issue. The clearest and most pressing danger lies in the fact that every second American has at least one chronic illness as we speak, while 60 million people suffer from multiple chronic conditions. Despite advances in modern medicine our health is worse today than ever before in our history! There is no doubt that sickness affects us directly, causing untold suffering and hardship. I’m here to tell you how the situation got so bad and what you can do about it. Please read on.

In the year 2000, the U.S. population was 276 million. Nearly half of the population – 125 million Americans – lived with some type of chronic condition. About 60 million lived with multiple chronic conditions. Examples of chronic conditions are diabetes, cancer, glaucoma and heart disease. The number of people with chronic conditions is growing at an alarming rate.

So Why Are We Sick?

I’ll be brutally honest here so there are no misunderstandings: We get sick because our lack of health is economically profitable for a lot of big companies and shareholders. Including:

• The food industry with all the ‘designer’ junk foods and beverages that hold no nutritional value and actually make us fat and sick
  
• All the polluting industries that fill our lives and bodies with harmful chemicals and toxins
  
• The ‘sick care’ industry that figured out long ago that there’s a lot more money to be made in treating symptoms with drugs and surgeries in expensive hospitals than in patient education, prevention and natural medicine.

There’s a lot of money to be made in making and keeping us sick. As professor Paul Zane Pilzer explains in his best-selling book, The Wellness Revolution: “Incredibly powerful economic forces are preventing people from taking control of their health and actually encouraging them to gain weight – forces so powerful that nothing short of a revolution will be able to stop them.”

Since birth we’ve been bombarded with millions of ads that turn us into happily paying consumers of the very things that make us sick. Now the only way for us to become and stay healthy for life is to train ourselves to see through all the commercial deception and brainwashing, and learn how to be healthy. This is what we teach at the Global College.

We cannot expect a solution from those who don’t have our best interest at heart. We have to take matters into our own hands. And when we learn how to take care of ourselves and our loved ones, we learn something equally important at the same time: How to help the other half of the population that is constantly and chronically ill.

Wellness - The Biggest Opportunity of The 21st Century

Professor Pilzer defines the wellness industry as the next big boom that will revolutionize our lives.

“We are now at the very beginning of the next trillion dollar industry”, he writes in The Wellness Revolution, “an industry that will impact almost every aspect of our lives and achieve $1 trillion in sales within 10 years, but one that is as unknown today as the automobile industry was in 1908 or the personal computer industry was in 1981.

“In order to define the wellness industry and identify its opportunities, we must first distinguish it from a related industry based on some of the same technology – the current $1.5 trillion ( U.S. ) healthcare industry. … Healthcare is a misnomer, as this one seventh of the economy is really devoted to the sickness business... The sickness business is reactive. Despite its enormous size, people become customers only when they are stricken by and react to a specific condition or ailment. No one really wants to be a customer.

“In the next 10 years, an additional $1 trillion of the U.S. economy will be devoted to the yet-unnamed wellness business… The wellness business is proactive. People voluntarily become customers – to feel healthier, to reduce the effects of aging, and to avoid becoming customers of the sickness business. Everyone wants to be a customer of this earlier stage approach to health.”

Join The Revolution – Enroll with GCNM

As pointed out earlier, powerful forces are preventing us from taking control of our health and actually encouraging us to eat unhealthy, gain weight and smother ourselves in toxic chemicals. These forces are so powerful that only a revolution will be able to stop them.

Professor Pilzer: “The emerging wellness industry is as much a reaction to the tyranny of the sickness and the food industries as it is to every person’s desire for the freedom wellness offers. Wellness is the next natural step forward in our destiny and in the advancement of humankind.

“The revolutionary leaders in wellness are the entrepreneurs who grow and procreate wellness, the inventors who instigate wellness services and products, and the practitioners and distributors who carry the wellness message throughout society. Take your pick of how you want to be a leader of this new industry.”

Wellness or Sickness – Your Choice

The time has come to choose which side you want to be on: Wellness or sickness? We all have a purpose to serve on this beautiful planet. You can either choose to actively seek out solutions, continually nourishing your body and reviving your spirit – or you can remain passive about the potential perils lurking around us, gradually losing your life energy until sickness finally catches up with you.

If you don’t make a decision, the choice will be made for you by the financially motivated food, chemical and drug companies or by the media addicted to advertisement dollars. But will that serve your benefit?

Building Wealth through Promoting Health

The biggest opportunity of the 21st century has just begun, offering never-before-seen ways of building wealth through promoting health. Stake your claim in the coming natural health and wellness revolution! Learn about holistic nutrition, herbs and natural ways of keeping yourself and your family healthy or start a new career in this exciting field.

The Global College of Natural Medicine, as the global leader in natural health and wellness education, offers comprehensive courses that will start you on your way to a new professional career, but should that not be your ultimate goal at this time, the programs are affordable enough to be taken for self-enhancement.

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References:
1) Partnership for Solutions - A Project of Johns Hopkins University and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
2) Paul Zane Pilzer: The Wellness Revolution : How to Make a Fortune in the Next Trillion Dollar Industry; Wiley 2003; ISBN 0471430676;
3) Ibid.
4) Ibid.

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