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A dramatic shift in medical care is from a disease-centered to a health-centered model. This shift arises from consumer attraction to complementary therapies (holistic, more natural and empowering) and from dissatisfaction with the cost, side effects and mistakes of conventional medicine. Obstacles on the pathway to health enrichment include overeating (portion distortion) and under exercising, overuse of fast food, credit card debt and dependence on a pill for every ill.Enriching Health:Examines why alternative therapies are gaining credence among MDs and consumers. Explores how alternative therapies came of age in the decade of the1990s. Provides information on medical insurance plans offering alternative therapies.Predicts energy medicine will grow dramatically in the near future.

M D Betz, Professor of Sociology at the University of Tennessee, has taught the Sociology of Health for over 25 years and served on two hospital committees for 12 years. For 10 years he traveled back and forth to Thailand and worked with a medical doctor who is reviving the herbal tradition there. In 1987, he dumped his university subsidized medical insurance because he felt it fostered an unhealthy dependency on outside experts who focused mostly on disease while failing to promote health. He is inspired by the ancient wisdom: Health is what the wise person pursues when in good health, not after it is lost. . . Who waits until they become thirsty to dig a well?