There’s been plenty of talk over the years about the importance of leading a healthy lifestyle - We’ve become very familiar with terms like health & fitness, wellness, cardiovascular health, and as of late with the new administration in office you’ll hear the President using the word prevention in most his speeches about health care reform. Let’s delve into the concept of prevention for a second - what exactly are we trying to prevent? An obvious answer would be any type of degenerative disease especially the life threatening sort.

When I think about prevention much more than sickness and disease comes to mind - With our society set up the way that it is we have to play close attention to a wide variety of variables that can adversely affect our well being. For example if we don’t manage stress in a healthy way chances are we’ll resort to either harboring the stress or self medicating with dangerous habits like smoking, drinking, over eating or using drugs.

Depression is something that needs to be considered as well - more and more people are relying on prescription drugs to treat the symptoms of depression as opposed to addressing the root cause of the problem that very well could prevent the depression from ever being a serious issue. Nutrition is one of the biggest concerns of mine. We may be inviting debilitating disease into our lives by the way we choose to eat. Foods that are processed with chemicals, dye’s, trans fats, and refined sugars are potentially very dangerous - animals fed pesticide laden feed, raised and slaughtered in unsanitary conditions, injected with hormones, and administered antibiotics can all wreak havoc on our state of health.

In order to be truly ‘fit’ I believe that one has to take the mind, the body, the spirit, and one’s emotions into consideration. If we only focus on exercising that won’t cut it - if we eat clean but have a high stress job and do nothing to manage the stress we’ll still be vulnerable. I think there’s no better way to prevent all of life’s dangerous invaders then by ‘Living the Seven’ - The ChiForce way of life can take your health & fitness to new heights as long as you make the commitment, stick to it, and wait for it to work its magic.

Posted Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
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