PREVENTABLE ILLNESS

Healthcare can be expensive. What has continually baffled me, however, is that people will go to great lengths to GET healthcare when they are ill, however they won't take the simplest steps to AVOID becoming ill in the first place!

As I have said before, and will continue to say, "This ain't rocket science, here!" Your knees hurt, your ankles hurt, your hips hurt, you have high blood pressure, you have joint pains everywhere, you have difficulty breathing, you have heart problems, you have late onset diabetes, (have we hit yours yet?) Well, guess what! The fact that you're 50-200lbs. overweight, haven't walked a mile in 10 years or more, and eat 3-4 times the amount of food that you need EVERY SINGLE DAY, has a LOT to do with that!

If you continuously stuff yourself with thousands of kilocalories per day more than your body needs, it will dutifuly try to deal with the onslaught. That process, continued over years or decades, however, will cause the body's functions to begin to break down. If you are heavily muscled, your legs may be able to handle some extra weight. This is functioning weight. If you pile an extra hundred pounds of fat onto a pair of knees that are designed for carrying much less of a load, and they will start to break down.

You don't need two cheeseburgers, fries, a large soda, and a tablespoon of salt if you are going to spend the day doing sedentary or minimal activities. If you are really active, and I mean REALLY active, you may be able to metabolize such a meal with minimal damage to your health. The cholesterol, other fats, and salt won't do you much good, however.

Use a little "OGG sense". He had to work his tail off to score 1000 kilocalories for a meal. You can drive up to a window and hand over a few bucks! Your body doesn't know the difference between 10,000 years ago and today. Just give it what it needs, and it will take care of you. Abuse it with excesses, and it will do its' best to survive, but will function on a much lower efficiency level.

If you need to use your hands to raise yourself out of the car or up from the chair because you packed on an extra 100 lbs that your muscles aren't able to move around, you may want to re-think that next meal. I'm not being sarcastic, mean, or facetious. I know that it sounds mean to put it this way, but it's the T.R.U.T.H.!! That is what this blog is about. "Just the facts, ma'am", as Sgt. Joe Friday used to say on Dragnet. I'm telling you the truth because there are SO MANY charlatans out there who are peddling this drink or that pill or this procedure. They want your MONEY. I am not asking for anything but a bit of your attention for a few minutes.

I really want you to get healthy..............naturally! Stop abusing your body, and it will, if not too far gone already, come back to it's naturally healthy state. It is designed to carry you through a long and productive life. GIVE IT A CHANCE TO DO ITS' JOB! If you get healthy, you won't be an unnecessary drain on the health care system, and my premiums won't go up to pay for your corroded arteries. There, if you need me to have a financial motive in order to listen, there it is. I don't want to pay for them to "Roto-router" your arteries because you CHOSE to sit on your but and eat nachos for 20 years.

Get healthy..............start..............Now.