The excuses people with poor health make "I just love my food too much, "I know I am overweight, but I have tried to diet and it didn't work for me", "I am too busy to exercise and anyway I get enough exercise now". And the list goes on, but these are just excuses we make to ourselves and the loser is us. But whose responsibility is it for our own health? Is it ours, is it our doctors or is it just a matter of luck?" What is health anyway? For starters health cannot be left to your doctor. Your doctor does not look after your health but only looks after your illnesses. If your doctor says you are 'healthy' it just means that things aren't so bad that any disease symptoms have got severe enough to be diagnosed...yet. Many people in this state are far from 'well' and are often labeled the 'walking unwell' as they are functioning far below their potential. Their weight keeps increasing, they constantly feel tired and things inside their bodies are not working properly. Their digestion isn't breaking down food efficiently, their blood doesn't pump as well as it should and their lungs can't extract the oxygen they should to keep cells healthy. As the body's efficiency drops, more symptoms appear and eventually a doctor can diagnose a disease - heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and anyone of at least fifty others that are labeled chronic 'lifestyle' diseases. Called this because they are caused by the way you live your life. We need to be clear about the fact that being healthy is not just 'not being sick'. It is much more than that. Real health gives you an abundance of strength, energy, vitality and a zest for life. Real health gives you peak performance in every way - physically, mentally and emotionally. When you have this state of health you don't get 'lifestyle' diseases. Your body has the ability to fight off preventable and premature disease that robs so many people of their health, reducing the quality of their life and often robbing them of life itself. The first step in making sure you can enjoy real health is to make sure you have a proper exercise program in place. Your can never have real health without strength and there is simply not enough muscle building and maintaining activity in our lives anymore. This program should be mostly strength training exercise. You also need to perform this program correctly and a fitness professional can help you set it up so you not only do the exercises correctly but at the right level of intensity (degree of effort used) so they actually work properly. Strengthening your whole body along with your muscular system is the most very basic self care. Only you can do it and we all need to take responsibility for our own health and wellbeing. If you have been drifting along without a care about your health, be aware that what you do and don't do on a daily basis will ultimately determine how your life will be played out. Think of your doctor as the breakdown service. The general maintenance should be done by each of us and should start with our proper exercise program to keep our strength throughout every single decade of our life.
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