The New Wellness Revolution: How to Make a Fortune in the Next Trillion Dollar Industry Hardcover – January 30, 2007

The Wellness Revolution is an economist's point of view of the current US Health Care system.If you are were wondering what the issue is, how it came to be, and what is a viable alternate solution to socialized health care, then this book is for you. And there are many parts to the solution. Chapter 6 is a great reference and summary of US Healthcare.Pilzer talks about how America got to the way it is in detail with the history.-How employee sponsored health insurance came to be. Why it worked then and why it was bound to cause huge problems for the citizens.-How the 1.3 Trillion dollar food industry and 2 Trillion dollar "sickness" industry play major roles in influencing peoples health through marketing, profit motive, and lobbyist in politics.-How consumerism plays a huge role in economy and how to look at how to determine what is a bad or good economy in an economists eyese.g. Home Prices are higher than ever. Did you know that the average home is more than twice the size as it was in the 1960s. Industrialization leads to lost jobs but people who lost there jobs find other areas to work with and the GDP continues to rise.-How health care works from a business person or employer's point of view.This is great for a person looking for a job seeing some factors that people may not know of. This is also great to understand what will happen if taxpayers take the role of an employer and become the sponsor of health care.-How health insurance is not a typical insurance ("in case the unexpected happens")e.g. insurance is used to pay for everything and is not like other insurance (automobile, home).over half the viagra prescriptions were covered by insurance when it was first released.insurance is used to pay for lifestyle diseases that people expect to get that is preventablepeople don't expect to get into a car accident or have house fire.Health: He identifies the problem in our food supply. We are mineral deficient and bombarded with sugars and fats.Money: He identifies that the solution does not lie in the governments hands but with people like you and me.He shares great tools like ConsumerLabs.comWhat I was surprised to see was missing:He gave lots of great examples of how agriculture, food industry, consumerism, and politics created a sick and obese Americabut he did not mention the example of High Fructose Corn Syrup. This information can be found on a UCSF College Lecture entitled Sugar: A Bitter Truth by Robert Lustig M.D. circulating on YouTube.Some slight information you should know that will keep you from being disappointed:This is not a "How To" guide.Paul Zane Pilzer gives many great examples of wellness revolutionaries who made a frotune (and some who didn't but paved a way)with very general advice on how to make a fortune.The book should be entitled The New Wellness Revolution: The Next Trillion Dollar Industryinstead of "How to make a fortune..."Paul Zane Pilzer is a great writer and economist but..he is not a wellness guru. I like the examples he gives but if you have read countless wellness books on different topics,you will find that he chooses very popular examples that may not be cutting edge (then again it is a few years old). I was a little bothered by some of his very general examples but he made up for it on the topics he knows best.He does reference some people who may have some controversy but played huge roles in the revolution.He does his part as a business person and a wellness revolutionary.He will pitch a package for a Medical discount network HSA from his website.By no means, am I offended and am always open to seeing what's available.To see that he does his part is part of what he talks about, a revolution.I hope to see financial institutions offer HSAs with their financial planning packages in the future.Overall, I enjoyed this book and it is a great supplement to all my other wellness books.It is refreshing to see a a book on health as a business person rather than a medical professional or healer's point of view.Great if you want to be well rounded in the wellness industry.

This is one of the best books you'll find on what the problems and solutions are to "healthcare" in the US. If you're not in the field of Preventative Health and Health Promotion, you might want to reconsider. If you've not taken back control of your health, you better get moving before you're left out in the cold. The "disease and sickcare" system of this country is evolving into a healthcare system, whether the FDA, the AMA, the insurance industry, the US food industry, and the pharmaceutical industry like it or not. The American public is fed up with paying outrageous sums for medical care and spending their life savings on "treatments" and promises that has fed the corporate giants, who have perpetuated an antiquated, illness-rewarding system. The consumers are driving the movement and they're not stopping until the system is fixed. They're learning the secrets to health, and it doesn't include any of the industries mentioned because they've discovered the systems are working against us more than for us!

Professor Pilzer has many sensible and workable plans ideas for the challenges that you may be facing.I met him in Dallas.He is a big advocate of healthy living. Teaches his 4 kids to love good foods like fruits instead of junk food.He had injured his knee and was NOT looking forward to getting knee replacement surgery which would've costed thousands of dollars.Someone had told him about how glucosamine had helped them in such a similar situation,so he thought why not? And guess what? it helped! he took container fulls of the glucosamine and did not need the knee surgery.He has been an advocate since of neutraceuticals.

Having read this book when first published, and able to look back, PZP nails it with what he writes. Still worth reading, as there is more of this future to come. A must if you want to make money or spend it wisely in the years ahead.