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TOPIC:
"The
Act Of Preventing"
When we’re talking about health and long life, everyone knows what
“prevention” is...or do they?
The dictionary definition of the word “prevention” is “the act of preventing”, or “to keep from happening”.
When we’re talking about health and long life, of course prevention means taking positive steps or actions to prevent disease from occurring which may shorten our lives prematurely.
The human being is an incredible paradox (another “P” word, which means “seemingly absurd or self-contradictory”) when it comes to taking the simple steps necessary to ensuring a long and healthy life.
What do I mean by this?
For instance, how many of you know that
French fries or overly processed and packaged foods are bad for you, yet you continue to eat them?
How many of you know that every body requires exercise to stay healthy, yet you don’t make the time to include exercise in your weekly routine?
How many of you know without a doubt that carrying too much excess weight may cause diabetes and/or heart disease-related illnesses in both adults and children…yet you don’t take the steps necessary to
lose the excess
pounds?
And how many of you know that smoking cigarettes kills more than 400,000
people every year (in the US alone), yet even in the face of all the
stop smoking aids now
readily available, you continue to smoke?
This is what I mean when I say that the human being is seemingly absurd or self-contradictory when it comes to their own health, because in the face of just a little bit of logic, we wouldn’t be doing any of these life-threatening
things...yet we do.
Of course the reasons why are many and likely as diverse and individual as a fingerprint, yet the truth remains that without changing some basic attitudes about our own health care, our society is, from a health perspective, if not doomed to extinction, certainly doomed to an existence that is far from LIFE.
What basic attitudes am I talking about?
For starters, with respect to your health, do you even realize the importance of the difference between prevention and intervention?
If you’re one of those who waits until you get sick before you take any steps to ensure your health, or refuse to take responsibility for the way you are mistreating your body on a daily basis, and then allow yourself to lapse into a diseased state and then follow the set pattern of running to your doctor expecting them to cure you, this is intervention.
You’re asking your doctor to intervene or interfere in your life by allowing someone else to take a decisive or intrusive role regarding your health.
When you allow your life to be orchestrated by others who intervene from time to time you begin to believe that this is the best your life can be and therefore give it all over to the weak hope that perhaps you can live the rest of your years, how many that may be, relatively pain-free, masking the cause of symptoms with any number of drugs that were never meant to be any part of a healthy body.
Your good health is your MOST important asset...without it life becomes merely existence.
When we refuse to step up to the plate and take responsibility for our own health, we refuse to make a difference in the next
generation...we refuse to improve the health of the world.
All the world’s most prominent diseases can be eliminated...but not through
intervention...through PREvention.
Prevention means taking positive steps NOW to prevent the continuation of a dire statistical outcome in the future.
Each of us has all the power we’ll ever need to prevent disease in our
lives...all that’s necessary is a cold, hard look at what steps we’re not taking right now, or where we continue to turn a blind eye to preventing disease from occurring in the future.
Prevention is not just for those who are ill now or have diagnosed disease in their life, and want to make a positive
change...prevention is what you do in your daily life to ensure that you don’t allow your body to become diseased.
Prevention is for those who feel just fine and want to stay that way.
Heart disease is a good example of intervention vs. prevention.
For instance, how many of you know of someone who suffers from some sort of heart disease or has died, or how many of you have heart disease in your family? Probably everyone, and the intervention is pretty
standardized...go to the doctor...take these drugs...perhaps some
surgery...another heart attack...etc.
Yet, how many of you know someone who is making a positive impact to prevent heart disease from continuing in their family? Not so many? WHY? Because not so many of us are taking the simple steps necessary to
prevent heart disease...because we feel fine right now.
I’m not willing either to be yet another statistic to heart disease or to do nothing until I become ill and I hope that you feel this way, too.
The good news is that...
“The greatest discovery of any generation
is that human beings can alter their lives
by altering the attitudes of their minds.”
...Albert Schweitzer
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