CHOOSING BETWEEN DIFFICULT CHOICES

Life has many challenges; some of which we can’t control. Then there’s the choices we make among the options that are available to us. At face value, some of these options may look DIFFICULT.

They may involve “things” we DON’T WANT TO DO or even ENJOY, but are necessary to develop and maintain the mental and physical health required to LIVE a CHOSEN quality of life.

So many readers comment that PAIN and SUFFERING are necessary before people are willing to change unhealthy lifestyles. I’m not entirely convinced of this. I don’t see people (who value life) placing loaded guns to their head and pulling the trigger just because they haven’t experienced the PAIN or SUFFERING of a bullet. I believe those people living unhealthy lifestyles simply don’t equate these unhealthy habits with “Russian Roulette.” In reality, the PRIMARY difference between the two is the time frame it takes to experience PAIN and/or SUFFERING. High blood pressure, high cholesterol, elevated blood sugar, overweight/obesity, etc… are merely stepping stones (often without accompanying symptoms) toward the eventual outcome of PAIN, SUFFERING and LIFE THREATENING DISEASES.

Have you even associated your unhealthy lifestyle habits with any of the following diseases?

 CARDIAC DISEASE, DIABETES, CANCER, STROKE, LIVER DISEASE, KIDNEY DISEASE, GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE OR CANCER

YOU SHOULD!

Unhealthy lifestyle habits are the leading CAUSES of these diseases?

If life isn’t challenging enough, why would anyone CHOOSE to complicate it further by avoiding ESSENTIAL lifestyle habits necessary for achieving quality HEALTH? Do people truly “believe” the renewable pharmaceutical prescription “option” offers a viable pathway to good health? This pathway (by itself)

PREVENTS the RESTORATION of GOOD HEALTH

Its goal is designed to achieve a stable form of CHRONIC DISEASE. You know these diseases by name: High Blood Pressure, High Cholesterol, Diabetes, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, etc… This approach leads to an increasing number of new drugs prescribed with increasing required quantities that begin dictating and controlling the terms by which life is lived!

One drug will have to be taken on an empty stomach; one drug will require food; one drug will cause “side effects”; one drug will counteract these side effects; one drug will require a decrease in food types (ex. carbohydrates); one drug will interfere with sleep; one drug will cause headaches; one drug will stimulate appetite causing weight gain; one drug will cause lethargy.

And what is the END RESULT if you listen to your doctors and take your medications WITHOUT implementing a REGULAR practice of HEALTHY LIVING?

CARDIAC DISEASE, DIABETES, CANCER, STROKE, LIVER DISEASE, KIDNEY DISEASE, GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE OR CANCER

ANYWAY!

That’s right, it DOESN’T prevent the outcome of these diseases. At best, it slows down their progression.

SO WHY DON’T WE FEAR THESE DISEASES?

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…maybe because these are the faces of what these diseases look like…

It doesn’t create FEAR. These diseases HIDE behind smiling facial expressions. This, however, doesn’t reduce the PAIN and SUFFERING they’ve gone through (and will continue to go through in the future for those still alive.)

This is probably not the

IMAGE OF DISEASE

you expected, but this is the REALITY of what these DISEASES look like.

Being healthy is NOT about magic; it’s NOT primarily about good luck.

IT’S ABOUT MAKING DIFFICULT CHOICES; IT’S ABOUT VALUING LIFE; IT’S ABOUT SELF COMMITMENT; IT’S ABOUT REDUCING OR ELIMINATING THE NEED FOR PRESCRIPTION MEDICATION.

IT’S ABOUT FINDING JOY AND HAPPINESS IN HEALTHY LIVING!

 

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