Health is relative. To context, family, home, community, chronological age, and a whole lot more. Homing in on what is natural and simple is helpful. Seeking advice is encouraged. Especially if it is helping to make decisions on treatment options.
For example, should we focus on health and maintaining it? Or should we wait for a problem to develop (symptom, illness, etc.) before seeking help or treatment? Much discussion on just this issue alone could keep us busy for months. Basically, do we intend to live healthy lives from the beginning? Are we committed to do the work this entails?
Living healthy lifestyles means eating a balanced, nutritious diet, getting plenty of exercise, fresh air and rest. Sleeping well is accommodated and accomplished nightly; it should be a goal. Understanding normal threats to the autoimmune system is one thing, then doing something about it another.
The entire issue of understanding and self education of healthy lifestyles is a critical issue. Most of us do not understand these matters at all.
Out of convenience we visit a doctor to help us understand our situation, and then receive a method of treatment to ward off disease, or address existing disease.
That step alone is a threat to healthy living for millions of people. They are the believers in holistic medicine and natural healing. They point to our elder generations – even those who have already passed away – and ask at what age they died, and what lifestyle they demonstrated? Did they eat just about everything at any time? Did they become overweight? Did they suffer significant illness prior to death?
Most of us will recount tales of grandparents and great grandparents who lived to their late 80’s or mid 90’s with little ill health. They ate plenty of fat, butter, and ice cream, but they were exposed to plenty of fresh air, freshly grown vegetables and fruit. Their activity levels were high – farming, walking, horseback riding, heavy factory work, house work without modern day conveniences. That sort of life style burned up the extra calories and cleared the body of fat deposits before they could form.
The results were long life and little critical, long-lasting illnesses.
Today we live sedentary lives, eat a diet rich in chemicals designed to prolong shelf life of our food products. We eat polysaturated fats, too. The chemical complex of food additives to our daily diet is totally foreign to what our elder generations experienced. They lived longer lives. We don’t necessarily follow in their footsteps.
So, the point of today’s blog is just this: The human body has natural defenses against disease and toxic shock. Our modern social environment is rife with toxicity that challenges our autoimmune system, reduces vitamin intakes from natural food sources, limits our activity level, cuts down on natural sources of iodine, and assaults the body with chemicals from every direction. No wonder our bodies are sick and dependent on chemical treatments through the pharmacy.
How much of all this natural health is understood by the medical community? How much attention is spent on healthy lifestyles and prevention of ill health and disease? How much research is done on non pharmaceutical treatments and autoimmune systems?
Before spending another trillion dollars on ‘modern healthcare,’ perhaps we ought to look into simplifying our approach to living and relying on what is natural. Researching just this aspect may save mankind a boatload of resources AND lead to longer, healthier lives.
Just saying… And wondering...
June 27, 2019
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