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Chronic disease. >> most of this huge effort of the health care industry is devoted to intervention in established disease and the majority of that disease is lifestyle related and preventible. i mean, to talk about how we shift toward away from disease intervention to prevention and health promotion, that requires a massive rethinking about medicine and health care at all levels of society. it has to do with expectations of patients. it has to do with the training of physicians. it will require a huge effort. what's wrong with medical education is that it simply doesn't address whole subject ...

Outcomes. >> if you need real serious technology today, like a complex cardiac surgery, you're lucky to be in this country. rescue care is second to none. as an overall system, no, we're not anywhere near at the best in the world. i mean, look at our results. our life span isn't even in the top 20. >> we have a disease care system, and we have a very profitable disease care system. and the disease care system actually, i mean, if it really was honest with itself, it doesn't want you to die and it doesn't want you to get well. it just wants you to keep coming back for your care of your chronic ...

Heading expert on holistic medicine. it is good to talk to you again. i was having this conversation with someone on a plane today and it struck me, and i was actually tabbing it because you said what's on the show tonight? i said i was talking to you. obama, this is supposed to fix health care in america, yet here we are. how come it didn't solve the problems? >> i think we have to shift this whole enterprise in the direction of health promotion and disease prevention. at the moment we don't have a health care system in america, we have a disease management system that's functioning very impe...

Or irritation where applied, increased red blood cell count, headache, diarrhea, vomiting, and increase in psa. see your doctor, and for a 30-day free trial, go to axiron.com. >>gretchen: how's this for a startling statistic? nearly one million americans suffer a heart attack each year and heart disease is the leading cause of death in the united states. how much do you know about your heart? dr. marc siegel is here to put us to the test. february is heart health month. we're going to separate fact from fiction today. good morning, dr. siegel. no chest pain means no heart attack. true or false...

Saying i'm coming, elizabeth. the fact is that's not the way it happens. especially for women. women have totally different ways of presenting with heart attacks. they can have shortness of breath. it can be an arm symptom. you can feel fatigue, be nauseous. you just don't feel right. if you're not feeling right, see your doctor. >>gretchen: number two, trans fat are enemy number one? fact or fiction? >> trans fats are bad. it is enemy number one. it definitely is associated with heart disease. a lot of restaurants have gotten trans fats and put butter in. trans fats is high in food. >>gretche...