Healthy--Or Just Not Sick?
The title above can bring about many questions. If I’m not sick, then I must be healthy. Tell that to the cardiologist who had perfect health and died of a heart attack during his nightly run. Or one of the people diagnosed with breast cancer, diabetes, hypertension, ovarian cancer, prostate cancer, chronic renal failure, or tuberculosis-to name a few of the diseases that rarely have symptoms until it’s too late.
Now more than ever, we live in a time when we’re healthy if we don’t experience pain or symptoms of a disease. Merck’s Online Medical Dictionary defines health as a state of optimal physical, mental, and social well being, and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity. Our country spends more time and money on health care than we ever have. Yet according to the World Health Organization, we rank 27th in the world in health care. Today, we live in a symptom-based society, where we’re concerned because not enough people have symptom insurance-not sick insurance.
Health is a state of optimal physical, mental, and social well being. Physical well being can be achieved in many ways. Nutrition and proper eating habits can be very helpful in achieving a state of true health. In the days of super-size sugar drinks and super-size fries, we need to be filling ourselves with more water and healthier foods.
Mental well being can include surrounding ourselves with both positive people and people we like. It can also be achieved through proper rest. Social well being may be the hardest to achieve for many people. Our newspapers, televisions, and radios are filled with negativity-negative news and, a lot of times, negative views. At election time, we see many ads about how the other candidate is a bad person. We’re taught to love our neighbors, yet that’s becoming less and less likely in our society. These are just a few examples of what contributes to our country’s lack of health.
Our bodies were created to heal themselves in many ways. The brain and spinal cord control every function of our body-things we can control, like movement, to what we feel and even our organs. Many chiropractors consider themselves nerve doctors because of how much our nerves are in control. A chiropractor’s primary function is to help decrease and prevent vertebral subluxation. Vertebral subluxation occurs when one of the bones in your spine misaligns, presses on a nerve, and causes a decrease in function to everything that the nerve controls. If our bodies aren’t truly in a state of health, then subluxations occur easier than if we’re close to, or in, a state of optimal health.
There’s no alternative to getting enough rest. There’s no alternative to proper nutrition. There’s no alternative to proper and regular exercise. And there’s no alternative to having a proper nerve supply through regular chiropractic care. The question I leave you with today is simple: Do you want to be healthy or just not sick? TPW
Now more than ever, we live in a time when we’re healthy if we don’t experience pain or symptoms of a disease. Merck’s Online Medical Dictionary defines health as a state of optimal physical, mental, and social well being, and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity. Our country spends more time and money on health care than we ever have. Yet according to the World Health Organization, we rank 27th in the world in health care. Today, we live in a symptom-based society, where we’re concerned because not enough people have symptom insurance-not sick insurance.
Health is a state of optimal physical, mental, and social well being. Physical well being can be achieved in many ways. Nutrition and proper eating habits can be very helpful in achieving a state of true health. In the days of super-size sugar drinks and super-size fries, we need to be filling ourselves with more water and healthier foods.
Mental well being can include surrounding ourselves with both positive people and people we like. It can also be achieved through proper rest. Social well being may be the hardest to achieve for many people. Our newspapers, televisions, and radios are filled with negativity-negative news and, a lot of times, negative views. At election time, we see many ads about how the other candidate is a bad person. We’re taught to love our neighbors, yet that’s becoming less and less likely in our society. These are just a few examples of what contributes to our country’s lack of health.
Our bodies were created to heal themselves in many ways. The brain and spinal cord control every function of our body-things we can control, like movement, to what we feel and even our organs. Many chiropractors consider themselves nerve doctors because of how much our nerves are in control. A chiropractor’s primary function is to help decrease and prevent vertebral subluxation. Vertebral subluxation occurs when one of the bones in your spine misaligns, presses on a nerve, and causes a decrease in function to everything that the nerve controls. If our bodies aren’t truly in a state of health, then subluxations occur easier than if we’re close to, or in, a state of optimal health.
There’s no alternative to getting enough rest. There’s no alternative to proper nutrition. There’s no alternative to proper and regular exercise. And there’s no alternative to having a proper nerve supply through regular chiropractic care. The question I leave you with today is simple: Do you want to be healthy or just not sick? TPW