“All men by nature
desire knowledge.” Aristotle
When it comes to
erasing age, very often you are your own worst enemy.
To become younger
and healthier for longer, you must be aware of your own health conditions,
whatever they may be at this moment
Do you
have high blood pressure?
Are
your blood cholesterol levels normal?
Do you
experience regular physical pain, or frequent headaches?
Do you
have difficulty going to sleep?
Do you
have insatiable cravings for certain unhealthy foods?
Do you
have anxiety or mental depression?
Is
everyday life stressful to you?
Are you
overweight?
Do you
have any degenerative disease or chronic illness?
It is useless to
deny the presence of any health problems you may have. Your awareness of
your present health conditions is the first step towards erasing your
age.
Once you become
aware of your own conditions, make a decision to bring about the
necessary changes—a change in your attitude, and a change in your diet and
lifestyle.
Adopt the right
attitudes towards aging and wellness. The right attitudes include your quest
for health information. According to a research study at Purdue University by Mohan
J. Dutta-Bergman, published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research,
“individuals who searched for health information on the Internet were indeed
more likely to be health-oriented than those who did not. Consumers who sought
out medical information on the Internet reported higher levels of
health-information orientation and healthy activities, as well as stronger
health beliefs than those who did not search for medical news on the Internet.”
Knowledge is power.
Knowledge not only gives you more options in life, but also enables you to make
your own health decisions, instead of replying on others to make them for you.
Empower yourself
with health information. Do not reply solely on doctors or pharmaceutical drugs
to make you younger and healthier for longer. They offer no miracle cures.
Nowadays, many
doctors may find themselves unable to keep themselves abreast of the new
knowledge of medicine in spite of their continuing education. In addition, many
doctors may become so preoccupied with the ever-increasing paper work required
by the health care machinery that they simply do not have adequate time for
their patients. If doctors cannot devote their full attention to treating you,
it just makes good sense that you should be more reliant on yourself to keep
yourself younger and healthier for longer.
The
pharmaceutical companies and the FDA have convinced not only the medical
establishment but also the gullible public that costly drugs are the answer to
all their health problems, despite their dubious track records and often-deadly
side effects.
The use, misuse,
and abuse of drugs account for 250,000 to 500,000 deaths each year in the United States Harvard
University
This is not to say
that doctors and pharmaceutical drugs have no place in modern medicine—far from
it. But you must equip yourself with knowledge to understand what your doctors
are telling you, and why you should be taking certain medications, if need be.
More importantly, become your own
physician, and, indeed, the best you could ever have, because no man can
be a perfect physician to you than yourself, and no one can tell you what your
body needs other than yourself.
So, without the
right attitude, it is difficult to initiate any meaningful change in your life.
Let your mind control your body, and not the other way around. Therefore, what
you feed you mind is as important as what you feed your body. A toxic mind is worse
than a toxic body. Remember, your mind is most powerful if you harness its
energies to create the reality for you.
Stephen Lau
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