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- Ending Smoking.How to quit smoking? Why is quitting so hard? We all know the health risks of smoking, but that doesn’t make it any easier to kick the habit. Whether you’re an occasional teen smoker or a lifetime pack-a-day smoker, quitting can be really tough. Smoking tobacco is both a physical addiction and a psychological habit. The nicotineContinue reading “Ending Smoking.”
- Smoking, A hazard!Why should I quit smoking? The decision to quit smoking is the most important step you can take to improve your overall health. It is NEVER too late to quit. By quitting smoking, you can: Lengthen your life expectancy Decrease your risk of disease (including lung cancer, throat cancer, emphysema, heart disease, high blood pressure, ulcers and reflux, erectile andContinue reading “Smoking, A hazard!”
- Do any weight loss pills really work?When it comes to weight loss, there is no shortage of pills, drinks, and supplements claiming to help the weight fall off. But do weight loss pills help, and are they safe? The best weight loss pills may contain one or more active ingredients intended to increase fat burning, decrease appetite, or reduce absorption ofContinue reading “Do any weight loss pills really work?”
“Take care of your body. It is the only place you have to live in.”
~Husnain.
Why is health important?
Because health is life, totally necessary for the fulfillment of life when the potential is given at birth.
WE all want, desire, a healthy life. Can you imagine anyone who prefers to be sick? However, you would think that some people do because they make so many bad choices about how they live, thus jeopardizing their health.
Let’s take a very simple example: smoking. Is there anyone who hasn’t heard that smoking will damage your health? But millions of people do because of emotional needs that end up creating an addiction.
ADDICTION: This word stands for a whole complicated behavior pattern that has is still the scourge of our society. Addiction means compulsive, driven behavior that substitutes the feelings of a substance or an activity that jeopardizes well being and health.
The addiction can be to a substance: opiates or alcohol for instance.
The addiction can be to a behavior pattern: high risk sex for instance, or gambling
The addiction can even be to a person: abusive relationships for instance, where one partner is repeatedly physically or sexually abused by another.
Addiction/addictive behavior patterns cause massive loss of health and wealth. 225 billion a year estimated loss from alcohol addiction for instance.
Addiction is a compulsive behavior pattern. Any compulsive behavior pattern even if it does not rise to addiction can be damaging. Driving too fast, weaving in and out of traffic for instance is compulsive, if not addictive, and this habit is really dangerous to the health of the perpetrator, the victims, and the society through large financial costs from traffic accidents.
Our Country’s medical system can operate superbly when it is addressing the disease and health disorders that sponsor successful economic gain for the health system and community.
When the health care system senses that these huge medical problems where there is no financial gain or maybe financial losses for the system then those medical problems and serious health issues are dumped, forgotten: no care, no research, nothing but despair.
All health care decisions and the allocation of resources and governed by those decisions are based on business profit. Thanks to Ronald Reagan and his succeeding Presidents, (except for Obama who tried -and mostly failed) the Medical system was abandoned by the Government to Private Business.
Granted that privatizing the Medical system initially markedly improved what had been a cumbersome, awkward and wasteful system, but it went too far. Most checks and balances were stripped away. The Research system became dedicated to profit, endangering its core values. The Physician community was shunted aside from the operational management of its activities and facilities, being replaced by the “efficient business person” who do not share the humanistic values of its medical providers (MDs RNs, NPs, PAs).
Why then is health an important aspect of life? Would you prefer sickness for your life?
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