Health Topics - Healthy Living

broken down car is like a broken down body

This page has the purpose of launching your understanding of truly important healthy topics. Upon gaining an understanding of these weighty topics, all that matters afterwards is "will you proactively maintain your health or will you continue on the common American path that leads to a premature departure from this life — probably after enduring one or two decades of poor health before your untimely, over-early demise? — which is the path most Americans are on.

Think of a person who buys a new car and doesn’t maintain it. Imagine what happens if:

the owner of a car rarely changes the car’s oil, oil filter or air filter,
nor tops off the radiator fluid,
and never performs tune-ups nor other basic maintenance,
including never rotating the tires,
but just drives the car with no concern for maintenance.

The consequences of neglecting car maintenance are often not immediate.

Skipping an oil change won’t cause a car to break down right away.

Yet, we all know that an unmaintained car will eventually break down. It is the delay between inaction and resultant consequences that causes our downfall. With our human nature, we procrastinate and still car owners will always be amazed when their car breaks down.

Likewise, it is the delay between not doing maintenance for our health and our eventual health breakdown that destroys human health!

Ironically, people often give less thought and care to the physical health of their body than they do to their vehicles, mistakenly believing that maintaining their health can be put off for quite awhile advancing a career, raising children, serving God, country, or other noble causes. But regardless of the reason, neglecting the maintenance of one's body leads to one inevitable outcome: a guaranteed decline in health. The wise choice is clear — take care of your health, or suffer the consequences.

People are like cars. They need maintenance, too!

The heart attack at 50 began at 20.

The Alzheimer's at 70 began at 40.

The loss of mobility and independence at 80 began at 30.

The quality of health you want in your future begins at the choices you make today.

Breakdowns are preceded by warnings:

When cars or human bodies aren't cared for properly they usually don't break for a long time. First they gave warning signs.

An unmaintained car’s performance and responsiveness will gradually decline — fuel efficiency decreases, engine noises or rattling may start, idling becomes rough, tires wear unevenly, and excessive exhaust smoke appears. These warning signs are often noticeable, yet many car owners overlook them, neglecting maintenance until the car breaks down.
Similarly, there are warning signs in people of ignored maintenance — such as shortness of breath, weight gain, brain fog, gas, bloating, skin rashes, fatigue, aches and pains, loss of good eyesight, anxiety, or frequent headaches. These signals are the body's way of indicating underlying issues, but they are often overlooked until the problem worsens into an undeniable problem.

Eventually An Unmaintained Car or Physical Body Cannot Function Properly, and Breaks in Noticeable Ways:

With cars, a breakdown may be a tire blowout, engine overheating, throwing a rod, or an engine seizing up.
With unmaintained humans, a breakdown may be named cancer, stroke, heart disease, arthritis, diabetes, kidney failure, etc.

After a breakdown of a car or a person's health, there may likely be a seeking of a repair person, i.e. a car mechanic, or a hospital and doctor to fix the breakdown or health challenge. And because of our human nature, the person will probably be shaking his/her head and wondering why did this happen to me?

That person's response should be "I truly deserve this because I didn't do the preventative maintenance".

To enjoy the freedom of vibrant health and a long, fulfilling life, we need to embrace now the discipline and effort needed to care for your body. The discipline to maintain your health each day will unlock the freedom to live life to through numerous tomorrows!

Habit is the most powerful word in the English language. It makes or breaks each person in terms of character, finances, spirituality, congeniality, health, happiness, etc. If you habitually neglect to give priority to your health, you will lose the freedom to fully enjoy your life because your health will be going away imperceptibly day by day, until one day you realize you are no longer healthy. This loss of health becomes a form of bondage, as anyone struggling with poor health understands.

Therefore, we must proactively, constantly:

Habitually think about the state of our health and the state of our understanding about what will preserve and enhance our health. When you stop learning about new understandings about health, in less than two year's time you will be significantly behind in terms of latest health understanding. So, habitually, learn!

Remember that the most powerful word in the English language is HABIT. Habits bind us or they enable and free us.
- So, LOVE MAKING good habits! Good habits are your best friends.

Believe that healthy habits are the constant vigilance that grants us true freedom from poor health. Just as a well-maintained car runs smoothly for years, our bodies thrive when we nurture them with the right habits. Daily choices like eating nutritious foods, staying active, managing stress, and getting adequate rest are small but powerful acts of self-care. These habits not only prevent the breakdowns that come from neglect but also protect our long-term well-being. Consistency in these habits forms the foundation for a life free from the limitations that poor health can impose. In essence, healthy habits are the key to living with vitality, allowing us to enjoy life fully and engage with the people and experiences that bring meaning to our lives. Without them, we risk losing the very freedom we seek to maintain.

Three Habits that destroy the health of most people.

Trusting others too much — especially those who benefit from your poor health and your early death, such as big business, big pharma and big government — can be dangerous. It's essential to take charge of your own health by understanding the real truths about wellness.
Not thinking about your health — and not believing that a person you see in a coffin, hospital bed, struggling with joint pain, losing memory, functioning with limited mobility or low energy, etc. may very likely be you in the future, unless you learn to act smarter than they did. Especially failing to consider what are one's particular health risks is the height of unthinkiness or arrogance (take your pick).
Failing to plan your daily routines so as to establish the Six Habits of Health. The old saying is true: If one fails to plan, the result becomes the same as if one had planned to fail.

Make the Ultimate Health Turnaround

Click here to Learn How to Reverse Course and Become a Truly Healthy Persons After Having Lost One's Health

Important Health Topics for Today's World

"My people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge" was an ancient sage's lament.

What you don't know about health limits your potential for longer and more productive life... so it's time to learn.

Healthy Living is all about giving the knowledge that saves people from poor health.

Please review this page for any topics of interest, and visit our Health Blog page, Health Coaching page, and 6 Habits of Health page to learn what is real on a variety of health topics.

What Are Your Health Risks?

The wisest people among us have learned from the experience of others and project into the future the calculated probabilities that the experiences of others will become their own if they go down a similar path. Theen they they take action to counter those probabilities.

That means each one of us needs to asses our own unique health risks and strategize so as to not become a statistic!

In general, we can divide people into six groups, each of which has somewhat different health risks from the other groups. So, let’s consider the differing risks of the following types of people.

Children

Children - are at high risk in our modern world for two specific reasons that are totally under the control of their parents.

It is up to their parents to guide them and to learn the countermeasures to these risks and how to ensure that children have as great a future life as possible.

Learn how to do this in our children’s guide to nutrition.

Women

Women - have specific needs because of the immune confusion and stress inherit in menstrual cycles, giving birth and caring for children take on their bodies. 79% of all autoimmune diseases occur in women. Both men who care about their women and women themselves need to understand and reduce these risks for women. Read more about women’s nutrition in our special women’s section.

Men

Men - have a much higher propensity for vascular disease than do women (up through women’s menopause, after which the risks start to equalize). If you are a man or a woman who cares about a man, you need to know what to do to reduce this risk of cardiovascular disease. Read more about men’s need for cardio-protective nutrition in our men’s nutrition section.

Overweight

Overweight people - face a triple whammy of health risks leading to aging and degenerative disease.

Being overweight is the single greatest risk for health problems.

We explain the way out of this trap in our section on overcoming the overweight condition.

Athletes

Athletes - have unusual nutrition requirements which, when not met, spell very real danger.

If you are an athlete or care about an athlete, please read our section on athlete’s nutrition.

Seniors

Seniors - are at the age when inadequate nutrition related stress and disease are taking their heaviest toll. They have less time before critical consequences are faced. Please take time to understand the needs of seniors as it relates to nutrition.

How Do You Want To Die?

The answer that we like best is:

" I want to die young, but as late in life as possible"

- Dr. William R. Kellas

Medical science has done an absolutely magnificent job of curtailing deaths from infections and traumas, which used to be the leading causes of death.

As a result of their brilliant advances in controlling deaths from infection and trauma, past realities where one out of every two people died from infection or trauma are done away.

Instead, people now get to reap the consequence of how well they nourish and protect their bodies.

Click here to learn more about how most modern people die and what you can do differently.

Dealing With Health Challenges

"TheCurse Causeless Shall Not Come !"

(that quote from the wisest man on earth, King Solomon) — means that if one has a chronic health problem...

then there is a cause, an

injury,
toxicity,
inherited gene defect,
or lack of needed nutrition

that is interfering with the body’s natural ability to self-heal and function optimally.

Click here to review the body's natural capacities to heal and how to trigger that healing.

What Are Some Great Health Practices?

The Wise Do “Sooner” What Others Do "Later" (But, Often Too Late) or "Never"

The most common story of Americans is the procrastination of great practices, such as regularly saving money out of each paycheck, timely maintenance of one’s possessions, keeping connections with friends.

Since, we are talking about health: Click here to see what great health practices we recommend.