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TOPIC: "Prevention – The Ultimate Life Insurance Policy"
When we’re talking about our health, the dictionary meaning of the word prevention is “tending to prevent disease”. To prevent, of course means to keep from happening, especially by taking precautionary action. Again, when we’re talking about our health, logically everyone wants to prevent becoming a statistic of debilitating disease. However,
how much logic really enters into the equation?
Most of today’s major debilitating health problems, such as heart disease, obesity, diabetes, etc., can be prevented, so why don’t we?
Everyone is a little different, of course, when it comes to their own health care, although it seems that generally speaking, prevention in the form of simple everyday things you can do to prevent
diseases somewhere down the road falls very near the bottom on the scale of importance.
Unless you live in a hermetically sealed bubble and eat only 100% pure food, drink only 100% pure water and breathe only 100% pure air, without participation in your own prevention program, you
will be participating in perpetuating the increase of statistics related to disease sooner or later.
Exactly when, of course depends on the individual, but generally people start to take notice of their health or lack thereof, around age 35-40ish when after a lifetime of eating high sugar, high fat foods, highly processed foods, fried foods, frozen foods, fast foods and exercising little or not at all, breathing polluted air, drinking contaminated water, showering with unfiltered water, etc. etc. begins to take its toll.
Depending upon the strength of your own immune system, your lifelong diet and exercise regime, whether or not you’re overweight, genetic predisposition to certain disease and your age, your body may begin to rebel against these sorts of ill treatment sooner or later in life.
You can think of your body like a rain barrel happily and securely situated beneath the downspout to catch runoff from the roof. Everyday a few more drips fall into the barrel, the sun vaporizes some of the accumulated drips, and some days a whole torrent of runoff funnels into your rain barrel. You can equate this runoff to the toxic elements contained within the foods you eat, lack of exercise, poor sleep and the myriad other bad things we do to speed up the toxicity in our bodies. Slowly over the years the amount accumulates in your system, just as the rain barrel slowly starts to fill up.
Then one day, guess what? The rain barrel starts to overflow and creak and groan from the weight and the water starts to flood down its sides. Next, the foundation upon which the rain barrel use to stand so securely begins to become undermined as the ground beneath gets saturated with the overflowing water. The very same thing starts to happen to your body once
it can take no more and it begins to rebel by sending you messages such as irregular heart beats, pain and tightness in your chest, various forms of cancer, or joints that no longer function properly, for instance.
Life just happens, and often we place ourselves (especially women) last in that long line of things that must be accomplished before the lights go out. Undoubtedly, we need to pay more attention to ourselves and implement an active preventative program, so that although we may continue to "come last"
on that list, we won't continue to come first when it comes to being sized up for a coffin.
Perhaps the most highly significant piece of the health care puzzle is the fact that as humans, we tend to go about our business day in and day out never thinking for a moment too seriously about what we’re putting in or on our bodies, whether or not we're exercising, sleeping properly, taking the time to de-stress, etc. etc. until it's too late.
For instance, I can easily count on one hand the numbers of individuals who have told me that they feel great but are concerned about what steps they can take to prevent future disease. Rather I’m inundated with questions about what can they do now that they’ve, for instance, just had a triple bypass.
Why is this? Simply because when everything "feels" okay in the moment, all logic goes out the window and we automatically assume that everything IS okay forever. As well, when it comes to preventative health care, we were never trained to think about our future health - we were instead trained to go about our business until something goes wrong, and at that point hand over the care of our bodies to our doctors. That's a little like waiting until you feel thirsty before starting to dig a well.
Another big stumbling block when we’re talking about taking healthy preventative measures is cost. Most people take the attitude “why should I put out extra money when I feel fine the way I am?” or “why should I take a supplement when I can’t prove it’s helping me?” Good questions, but again, somewhat lacking in logic.
You buy car insurance but aren’t planning on having an accident. You buy life insurance but aren’t planning on killing yourself. You buy fire insurance but you’re not planning on burning your house down. These are all preventative measures that you pay for every day, but are hoping you won’t need. The same is true of preventative health care. Yes, any worthwhile measures you might take cost money, but consider how much more you would be paying for visits to the doctor or medications, or a triple bypass or daily insulin, or higher insurance costs because you’re a higher risk because you haven’t taken care of your health. Prevention does come with a cost, but how much more costly is ill health?
When you feel that you need to compare the cost of prevention vs the cost of ill health, ask yourself how often you’re sick, what’s the cost of unproductive time when you can’t work due to illness or time you’re not available to spend with your family? How often do you visit your doctor, how often do you buy prescription medications, and what is the cost of surgery? When you start to add up all these costs, I’m sure you’ll begin to see that the cost of ill health far outweighs the minimal costs of prevention.
Although I'm sure your doctors are doing their best to diagnose your conditions once they’ve occurred and to help you in every way they can, their business is not prevention of illness, but rather how to make a person live the best they can after they are already in danger of death.
Without prevention there really is no "cure" for any of the many diseases that plague our nation and without re-education with respect to simple preventative measures everyone can take, the future of health care can only be increasing numbers of debilitating diseases as the populations' rain barrels become full.
Here at Solving The Health Puzzle we strive to provide a little bit of re-education and a lot of encouragement to motivate as many as we can to start participating in their own health care because we strongly believe that education is power and that once you have that power, you will begin to understand that prevention is your cure.
Until such time as science has advanced to the point where we can eat, drink and be merry with no regard to the future consequences, because we can simply ingest an army of nanoprobes who will diligently repair any internal damage we’ve caused by our careless actions, my suggestion to you and to all of my readers is to do the next best thing. Invoke a little sound logic.
Logically, when you take control of your life, your diet, your stress level, your exercise regime, etc. you’ll have time to stop and think for a moment about the simple things you can do on a daily basis that will keep the door firmly shut on heart disease, diabetes, obesity, arthritis, cancer, autoimmune disorders, etc. for you and your family, so you can enjoy living a long and healthy life, naturally.
Don’t forget to visit the Solving The Health Puzzle home page where you’ll find many simple, effective and logical preventative measures that will help you take control of your life today and help to ensure that you and those you care about are around for not just a long time, or just a good time, but for a good, long and healthy time.
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