"How To Be One of The Next Millionaires," by Paul Zane Pilzer, Your Business Magazine, April 2006. 

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A vast amount of wealth is being created over the next ten years. Here's why--and how you can be a part of it.

A “Perfect Storm”
     In many ways, wellness and network marketing are natural sister industries. For one thing, wellness is rich in the kinds of new technologies that are best learned person-to-person. And for another, it is often the same quest for a better quality of life that finds expression both in exploring wellness and in pursuing an entrepreneurial, home-based business.
     Wellness and network marketing also both represent enormous financial opportunities; either opportunity alone has tremendous potential to create new wealth.
     Some companies have combined the best of both worlds, creating a “perfect storm” of unprecedented economic opportunity: A convergence of forces enabling entrepreneurs to create a satisfying lifestyle, and—at the same time—tremendous new wealth.
     Over the next 10 years, the U.S. economy will create 10 million new millionaires. You have the opportunity to start now and become one of them. You should do so not only for the benefits in health and happiness to yourself and your family, but also because you will be adding to our economy while you also add to the wellness and personal fulfillment of many others. In so doing, you will be contributing immeasurably to your community, your nation and the world.

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Rx for Health Care
     The prescription drug business was founded by people such as Dr. Jonas Salk, who developed the first vaccine for polio, and Dr. Alexander Fleming, who discovered penicillin. The products these dedicated doctors developed prevented diseases from developing in the first place or cured diseases over a relatively short period of time.
     Sadly, as health care moved away from the work of medical professionals and became the most profitable sector of our economy, the prescription drug industry shifted from making products that prevented or cured diseases to making products that merely treated the symptoms of diseases.
     Today, about 95 percent of the prescription drugs sold are maintenance drugs—drugs that treat only the symptoms of a disease and are expected to be taken for life. In my book, The New Health Insurance Solution, I examine a list of the world’s five top-selling prescription drugs: Lipitor®, Zocor®, Nexium®, Prevacid® and Zoloft®. These five account for more than $25 billion in sales in the United States alone. Yet, for most people taking them, these five drugs share these traits: They do not prevent any disease, but treat only the symptoms of disease. They are dangerous to your long-term health, because by treating only the symptoms of a deadly disease, they prevent you from modifying your behavior to cure the disease.
     They are designed to be taken for the rest of your life. I am an economist and businessman, not a medical doctor; however, in conducting the extensive research for my last book, The Wellness Revolution, I concluded that of the tens of millions of people taking maintenance drugs, few should be taking them. Instead, most people taking maintenance drugs should be working with a medical professional to cure the underlying disease—for example, changing their diet instead of taking Nexium for life (to counteract heartburn), or losing weight instead of taking Lipitor for life (to lower cholesterol).
   Adapted from The New Health Insurance Solution (2005). For more information, visit www.tnhis.com.
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