According to the National Institutes of Health, one out of every two males and one out of every three females will develop invasive cancers in their lifetime. Cardiovascular disease, especially heart disease and stroke, is the nation's leading killer for both men and women. Almost 1,000,000 Americans die of cardiovascular disease each year in the U.S. A. alone. Essentially one in every four Americans have cardiovascular disease. Arthritis is the leading cause of disability in adults over 15 years of age in North America, Europe and most of the civilized world. Arthritis affects almost one out every six people.

About 16 million Americans have diabetes. And, currently, about1,700 new cases are diagnosed every day in the United States alone. According to the American Diabetic Association, diabetes has been on the rise. Between 1987 and 1996 the incidence of type 2 diabetes rose by an alarming nine percent per year. In the United States alone, over 80 million adults are clinically obese. That is about one in every three people. When you consider the number of adults that are overweight, it amounts to about three-fourths of the entire population, and obesity is growing at an alarming rate among children.