Sunday, November 29, 2015

Sustainable health

Anyone looking to stay healthy, vital and slim should ask themselves on a daily basis: “What did I do for my health today?” We have to ask ourselves that question every day, because we need to do something about it on a daily basis. Good health does not come about by chance but is something we have to work hard for. The notion that “it won’t ever happen to me” is like sticking your head in the sand. It is counterproductive, even though it may seem like a comforting thought. Eventually, our genetic predisposition will be activated and then something really will happen to us. Consequently, we need to remember that health is an ongoing project, a project that lasts our whole lifetime and therefore requires us to take action every day. So the key question is: “What should I do each day?” And there are lots of great ideas that we have picked up over the last few decades. Many of them work. But equally, for some people they don’t. But we can eliminate the apparent random nature of this by identifying our genetic predispositions using a genetic test.