Prevention

Lot's of diseases are preventable - what else is new, you may ask....

How come most of us mere mortals are not motivated enough to prevent diseases... ?

Take smoking for example, I guess most smokers know that smoking is a health hazard, it's written on the packed isn't it?

Smoking >> Lung Cancer, wow, how much more motivation do you want, but it's still not enough, people still do smoke. Obviously, lung cancer, which is caused by smoking can be easily prevented.

Weight-problems, not only can it be prevented, it can be successfully treated, and if you see the social ramification, particularly in combination with smoking and heavy drinking,
wow-again, most of our health problems would be solved and we wouldn't have half the problem with overcrowded hospitals, long waiting lists, health insurance cost, etc, etc....

But...... still not enough motivation....

Actually, I think it would be cheaper to pay people to lose weight, to stop smoking, to slow down drinking, than to pay the enormous health cost associated with the health implication of above mentioned health problems.

Back to prevention, with other words, people sure would like to prevent becoming sick, if just they could take a pill for it. You see, people live a busy life and may not or can not be bothered to look after their own health, or to prolong their life, keeping good health.

So, I am talking to you, because you are different, you care, you like to prevent ill health and chronic disease.

I guess, you don't smoke, don't drink or only the occasional glass of red wine, (anti-oxidant - that's my excuse) you are slim and fit and live a healthy lifestyle.

So, what else can you do for prevention?

Here it comes:

Find your weak spots, we all have weaknesses, and they have attached to it >

associated diseases.

Knowing those, can help to prevent diseases by strengthening those weak points....

By example > If your dad, your granddad, and maybe even your greatgranddad, all died of a heart attack with 45, you probably have a weakness in that area, and you should make sure, that you are the one who brakes that cycle.

Knowing that, you probably are off to the Doctor, have a few tests, but you are only 30 and everything is OK.

Don't be fooled, your good Doctor can only treat a disease, not something which hasn't caused signs and symptoms yet.

With other words, Doctors are waiting for a disease to manifest, before they can help you.

But you like to prevent the disease from ever developing, don't you?

That's why you go to a Naturopath, he/she will show and tell you how to strengthen your weak points.

What could it be?

Is it because of lifestyle, hectic, stress, urgency, wrong food, burning the candle on both ends, not enough exercise or maybe too much, attitude, heavy workload, bad diet, not enough sleep, not enough fun, the list is endless, and there is always something out of balance, somewhere. Time to find balance before you fall over, that's what prevention is.

It's doing something before you have to...

Article supplied by the editor of Use Nature, Dieter Luske