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Our Health Report Card
Dave
Today in the United States we spend over one and a half trillion
dollars a year on health care.
That represents the highest spending per person in the world. With
that entire investment
one would think that Americans are the healthiest people in the world.
And yet a recent
report from the World Health Organization ranked the United States
37th in overall health.
This certainly does not earn the United States an "A." If you factor
in the spending, it would
even seem like we get an "F" in our state of health.
So with all this talk about health, the question is what is health?
The World Health Organization has defined an internationally
recognized definition of health.
According to the World Health Organization, "health is a state of
complete physical, mental
and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or
infirmity."
So let's break this down.
Physical well-being is what the body lives through, enjoys and
desires, as well as the agreement
with which the body interacts with the environment.
Mental well-being is what a person thinks and the processes carried
out by the brain. This also
includes a spiritual balance for a state of mental harmony.
Social well-being is the harmony with which the body lives among other
people and other life.
When all of these elements are in balance, a person is then considered
healthy. With these
factors as a measure, is it then so surprising that so many are
considered to be unhealthy?
Physical health is not the apparent absence of illness. Most chronic
diseases do not, come
on suddenly. They grow through our body over time until finally the
effects are severe enough
to show symptoms. It is only the appearance of symptoms that may come
on suddenly. So the
absence of symptoms simply means the absence of symptoms.
In the US we have many dedicated health care professionals committing
miracles in trauma care
every day. For that the US most certainly gets an A, but with the
definition of health provided
by the World Health Organization, it is clear that the responsibility
for health does lie with the
doctor. It is our responsibility to focus on creating a balance in the
factors of health. First for
ourselves and then for others.
Dave Saunders is a certified nutritional educator, wellness coach,
member of the American International Association of Nutritional
Education (AIANE)
and author. He is also the host of a weekly, nation-wide telephone
lecture on health and nutrition.
For additional information, please visit www.glycoboy.com or
www.glycowellness.com
or email Dave at dave@...
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