Who s Responsible For Your Health?
In the back of your mind you've always suspected it is you, I'm talking your body, your mind, and your feelings. So who else should be responsible but you? It might shock you to know that in most part you gave away this birthright gift and duty. It is not totally your fault. As a child your parents and their culture "knew" what and how to care for your health. When their know how reached its limit the family doctor was called in.
As you grew up you learned to take care of your physical health through exercises. Better nutrition and prevention was not part of the equation. Enter fast food and TV dinners. And again when health failed no connection with life style was made. Next, the doctor was consulted for crisis intervention. Life became more complex and sedentary as the years went by, health issues and the responsibility for your health was more and more slipping away into the hands of health specialists. Public awareness and the traditions of prevention were given way to crisis intervention and medical manipulation in the slippery hands of the pharmaceutical industry, medical industry and medical specialization.
The connection between our food, our behavior, life style, our thinking and our health became obscure as the responsibility for our health was misdiagnosed. How do we claim back what was ours all along? In the age of the internet we have no more legitimate excuse for not searching the answers, and retrieving the correct information which will educate and guide us back to our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well being. Even when you are diagnosed and a treatment or medicine is prescribed by your health practitioner, your responsibility is to search for alternatives, side effects, and a second opinion.
Raphael Wettenstein is a long time researcher in the field of natural health. Also, he is an internet entrepreneur
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Added: April 21, 2008
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