You need to be more involved in...
Your Own Health

Habit of Health #1 is to be highly involved in your own health.

To do this you need to keep the flow of information about how to be healthy coming to you. Most people stop learning about how to be healthy with their last Health course in High School. Don’t you do that!

Most people don’t think about their health until they lose it. Don’t you do that! Instead, take the advice of so many of us dumb people who did it the wrong way. Pay attention! Notice how your body and energy and healthy may be changing. Think about the direction your health is going... and when you see that don’t like the end of the road... then you’d better back up fast.

The first key to your health is to NOT RELEGATE YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO BE HEALTHY TO ANYONE ELSE.

Remember, health knowledge is doubling every few years. If you don’t want to soon have an OLDER BODY than absolutely necessary... then think about how you can take of your body better. The reward could be 20 or more years extra of healthy life.

We recommend that you pick one or more nutrition news sources below and stay informed:

• Healthy-Living.Org - click for a free monthly e-mailed newsletter bringing you current research and advise on nutrition in an easy to understand format.
• Nutrition News - click for free online nutrition news.
• University of Colorado Health Extension - click for free online nutrition news from a respected Ph.D., updated biweekly.
• Blue Dolphin Health - click for paid health and nutrition magazines for those who prefer information in a format where they can underline and hold it in their hands.

No one has a vested interest in you being healthy, except you!

• The government has to pay more money in social security benefits if you live longer.
• Drug manufacturers and hospitals don’t earn money unless you need their assistance because of your ill health.
• Tobacco companies, fast food companies, etc. actually want to sell you products that they know will damage your health.

So, if you’re going to go down the path of healthy living, you’re going to pretty much do it on your own.

Some quotes to remember:

"The doctors of the future will give no medicine, but rather will interest their patients in the care of the human frame through lifestyle and diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease." - Thomas Edison

If the doctor of today does not become the dietitian of tomorrow, the dietitian of today will become the doctor of tomorrow." - Dr. Alexis Carrel, Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research

“Let food be thy medicine.” - Hippocrates.