America is living in a state of emergency when it comes to our overall health. This heartbreaking picture can be seen in some of the startling statistics that reveal the rates of heart disease, diabetes, and cancer just to name a few of the chronic diseases we see here in the U.S.
As a matter of fact, cardiovascular disease takes the life of an individual every 38 seconds in our country [1]. Diabetes is no better as a little over 5,200 people are diagnosed with this disease every single day in America, and this only includes those over the age of 20 who are diagnosed with diabetes [2]. And lastly, according to estimates from the American Cancer Society roughly 65 people die every hour from a cancer related death in the U.S. [3] These painful statistics are even worse for those individuals and families who live in poverty. But there is hope.