Introduction: The New Silent Pandemic

For most of human history, the primary threats to human life came from infections, accidents, and wars. Today, the biggest killers are chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and mental illnesses which now account for over 75% of global deaths.

Unlike the wars or pandemics of the past, which used to strike with acute and visible devastation but were often geographically confined, this health crisis has crept in silently, escalating slowly at first, building year after year until it now threatens to overwhelm healthcare systems, economies, and even entire societies worldwide.

What makes this coming crisis so insidious is that it is largely a man-made problem and one that could have been prevented if we had conducted a proper risk diagnostic and taken the right preventive actions from the start. Yet, instead of tackling its root causes, governments and healthcare institutions still today remain locked in a vicious cycle of focusing primarily on the consequences and managing them with treatments that do not solve the underlying problem and hence lead to more treatments feeding an endless cycle going nowhere.