Or, are we simply being over diagnosed and over medicinized, causing us to become sicker?  According to the New York Times, our biggest health threat is not disease - our biggest health threat is our health-care system.

Everyday experiences like insomnia, sadness, twitchy legs and impaired sex drive now become diagnoses: sleep disorder, depression, restless leg syndrome and sexual dysfunction...

...If children cough after exercising, they have asthma; if they have trouble reading, they are dyslexic; if they are unhappy, they are depressed; and if they alternate between unhappiness and liveliness, they have bipolar disorder...

...thresholds for diagnosing diabetes, hypertension, osteoporosis, and obesity have all fallen in the last few years. The criterion for normal cholesterol has dropped multiple times...
 
...the logic of early detection is absurd. If more than half of us are sick, what does it mean to be normal? Many more of us harbor "pre-disease" than will ever get disease, and all of us are "at risk..." ...Exactly what are we doing to our children when 40 percent of summer campers are on one or more chronic prescription medications?

Overdiagnosis brings forth overmedicinization and the glamorization of dangerous prescription drugs:

Sometimes the harms are known, but often the harms of new therapies take years to emerge -- after many have been exposed..., ...for those experiencing mild symptoms, the harms become much more relevant. And for the many labeled as having predisease or as being "at risk" but destined to remain healthy, treatment can only cause harm.

Don't be a victim of this insanity.  Choose to take your health into your own hands through natural endeavors.  Simply by eating whole foods that are closest to their natural state your body will be nourished with the essential nutrients to support health and well-being.  Exercise will encourage your body to perform with strength and resilience and diminish signs and symptoms of disuse.