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Lifestyle and the issue of health

By Babatunde Ayo-vaughan
24 July 2016   |   3:25 am
The big question now on the lips of concerned citizens is – what could be held responsible for the galloping nature of diseases in the world today? Thank God, the answer actually seems not to be far fetched.

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From the dimension the issue of health is taking today, health experts and knowledgeable people are in agreement that the world is facing a global health crisis. It is becoming of an epidemic proportion with such complex implications that sometimes these days even confound medical experts themselves.

The big question now on the lips of concerned citizens is – what could be held responsible for the galloping nature of diseases in the world today? Thank God, the answer actually seems not to be far fetched.

Even the World Health Organization (WHO) has finally come out to sanction the truth about the origin of most diseases that they have to do from time immemorial with the lifestyles of human beings. In other words for most of the time you and I are the cause of most of the diseases that afflict our bodies. This is because, we use our hard earned money to buy all these diseases from the market.

Our modern day diets are no more of value because of our idea of civilization. Coupled with this is our lack of proper understanding of the issue of stress and its implication in the over all state of our health. Frankly speaking ignorance is the principal factor in the issue of the state of our health and this does not leave out any class of people whether rich or poor, educated or illiterate, young or old, man or woman.

So today, a new mantra is even as approved by the WHO and other leading Health is developing. This is about the understanding of the preventive approach to the issue of health, rather than the curative approach, which most people are used to. It is in recognition of that popular adage which states that prevention is better than cure.

Curative is about the visit of somebody who has fallen sick to the hospital to consult with the medical doctor. Apart from the fact that at that point in time the sick patient may just be lucky in getting the damage control to his health issue, which is what he is seeking, the cost implication might not be palatable.

The preventive approach however ensures that the person concerned is informed enough about what he must do concerning the issue of his health to ward off any serious implication. In this respect the rule of diet is of paramount understanding.

Moreover, the days I believe are virtually coming to an end when human beings are generally made to believe that the understanding of body function and its physiology belongs to medical doctors and psycho-physiologists. The new dispensation in the understanding of health issues want to make it clear that cerebro-vascular or cardio-vascular information or what you can call the understanding of mind-body functions should not be the exclusive preserve of just experts alone.

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