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Saturday, March 27, 2010

Lottery or lifestyle?

Is our fundamental health, at any given time, the result of a lottery (our gene pool) or a result of our lifestyle (our daily choices in food, water and exercse)?

At the recent Phillip Day seminar he commented that we are taught that "nature is weak". This is quite a deliberate message because it reinforces our dependence in Western society on consumerism. When things do go wrong with our health, it sends us scurrying off to the Doctor, Dentist or other "professional" health care service to "fix" our problem, often at great expense. Unfortunately a lot of problems can't be "fixed" so easily. We have all but forgotten the phrase "prevention is better than cure". And we totally overlook the big picture of the "sickness industry" and how important it is to the economy to keep this sickness industry going. That has huge ramifications.

I have learnt a lot since recovering from Chronic Fatigue many years ago and I hope through this blog to educate others and by doing so hopefully delay or prevent the onset of serious problems in their health. Or help them find a way back to better health if they have already experienced some kind of a health crisis. Where are you on your journey? Could I walk along with you for a while? If you ever have any questions, feel free to email me and I can explore some answers for you on the blog.

Be well!

Deidre.

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