Money can buy HealthCare, not Health

Hi Friends, "Health is wealth" is a proverb everyone in the universe knows, heard lot of times in his life. But yet many of us have failed to take good care of it. Today lets explore little bit on some practical ways to keep ourselves fit.

We have heard this proverb many many times in our life. Yet why many of us has to strive hard aganist our health day in and day out. There are probably lot of reasons behind this. We shall explore a few that top our list.

(1)I am working too hard for my family. We need to pay our credit card bills, mortgage, save money for sons college fees not to forget our retirement plans.

(2)I need to relax - Yes we all need to relax. We work hard, spend most of our time working for someone. Is it reallly a sin to smoke a pack of cigarette and end my day with few glasses of alchohol.

(3)I wanna socialise with people - For young kids out at schools and colleges, most of them start off their day with one theme in mind "I wanna look cool". Doesn't me appearing in all parties, taking in few drinks, smoking drugs make me appear cool. who would like to hang with a bookworm anyway?

(4)I skip breakfast - This is probably the latest of all health related issues. With less and less time, we are always need at two places at one time. When given an option to sleep 30 more minutes or prepare a healthy breakfast, most of us continue to choose the former. Just like "Apple a day keeps doctor away", we need to change it to "A breakfast a day keeps doctors away".

(5)I love TV and my couch - Do you know the basic needs of a human being - its not just food, shelter and clothes. Adding to it, TV is another basic need. We can add couch as the fifth basic need. I have had lot of trouble as a school kid having to justify my TV timings with my mom. But now I hate TV and I am one who says "Family, its time to switch off your TV".

(6)I dont have time to exercise - This is the best excuse of all and a valid one if you look at it. By the way who has time to read a newspaper, have a relaxed cup of coffee. Most people dont have enough time and patience to do exercises, whether jogging, hitting a gym etc,.

I have a suggestion - when you go to any office, always hit the stairs. Tell yourself, "Lift is not yet invented and its what i may use in my old age". As you wake up everyday, just spend atleast five minutes streching your muscles. dont have to do push ups, just do some streching exercises.

Why?

(1) As we get old: Whether you like it or not, just like the law of gravity, we have law of aging. We all are going to grow old no matter what. And if you are using a lift now, you will end up in a wheel chair when you grow old. If you are the one using the stairs, you may grow up walking to a lift. Got my point.

(2) To socialise : No one likes to hang with a unhealthy person. He can't come out with you. He always complains of his health. Would you hang out with someone like that. As you are young, you will be having lot of friends, probably because you move to various places and meet new people. As you grow old and restrict yourself due to health, you may end up all alone between four walls.

(3) To enjoy your wealth: If you have plans to become a millionaire or a rich person than you are now ... I understand that most of us have that kind of financial goal ... do you intend to eat like a homeless when you have all the money in the world.

(4) Prevention is better than cure : You can buy health care, but not health. What is health care - probably a bunch of chemicals wrapped up as capsules, liquid bottles or in syringes. Would you like to live a life. And please note, health care is a treatment act, not a prevention act.

Our body is specially designed and we have the intelligence to fastly adapt to our environment. Its as simple as a bicycle if you look overall - two kidney, heart, brain, muscles and bones covered by skin. Its that it. If you look in depth, the design will perplex you like the aeroplane design, lot of nerver running to pass and receive communication signals, eyes that process video and send in signals of different format to the brain etc,.

Its just like our new car. If you pour in some kerosene to even the finest car in the world, i bet it wont last few months. Just like that our health depends on what we feed our body. Either food, air anything we feed our body. Its not possible to reverse the affects you have made to your health. But you can gain hold on it and keep it fit or could get you more fit.

With luv,
Ashok.