Preventive Medicine Is The Answer To Health Challenges!

According to Wikipedia – the free encyclopedia - Preventive medicine or prophylaxis) consists of measures taken for disease prevention, as opposed to disease treatment. Just as health encompasses a variety of physical and mental states, so do disease and disability, which are affected by environmental factors, genetic predisposition, disease agents, and lifestyle choices.

Health, disease, and disability are dynamic processes which begin before individuals realize they are affected. Disease prevention relies on anticipatory actions that can be categorized as primal, primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention.

Causes Of Diseases:

Each year, millions of people die of preventable deaths. A 2004 study showed that about half of all deaths in the United States in 2000 were due to preventable behaviors and exposures.

Leading causes included cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory disease, unintentional injuries, diabetes, and certain infectious diseases. This same study estimates that 400,000 people die each year in the United States due to poor diet and a sedentary lifestyle.

According to estimates made by the World Health Organization(WHO), about 55 million people died worldwide in 2011, two thirds of this group from non-communicable diseases, including cancer, diabetes, and chronic cardiovascular and lung diseases.

This is an increase from the year 2000, during which 60% of deaths were attributed to these diseases. Preventive healthcare is especially important given the worldwide rise in prevalence of chronic diseases and deaths from these diseases.

How To Prevent Diseases:

There are many methods for prevention of disease. It is recommended that adults and children aim to visit their doctor for

^·        Regular check-ups, even if they feel healthy,

^·        To perform disease screening,

^·        Identify risk factors for disease,

^·        Discuss tips for a healthy and balanced lifestyle,

^·        Stay up to date with immunizations and boosters,

^·        Maintain a good relationship with a healthcare provider.

 

Some common disease screenings include checking for the following:

·      Hypertension (high blood pressure), 

·      Hyperglycemia (high blood sugar, a risk factor for diabetes mellitus), 

·      Hypercholesterolemia (high blood cholesterol),

·      Screening for colon cancer, 

·      Depression, 

·      HIV

·      Common types of sexually transmitted disease such as 

·      Chlamydia, 

·      Syphilis, and 

·      Gonorrhea, 

·      Mammography (to screen for breast cancer), 

·      Colorectal cancer screening,

·      A Pap test (to check for cervical cancer),

·       Screening for osteoporosis.

 

Genetic Testing:

Genetic testing can also be performed to screen for mutations that cause genetic disorders or predisposition to certain diseases such as breast or ovarian cancer.

 However, these measures are not affordable for every individual and the cost effectiveness of preventive healthcare is still a topic of debate

 

Preventing Diseases:

On a typical day, everyone wakes up and goes about their daily business. They push and stress the body mostly to the point of exertion without a minute thought to what they are doing to their body and how it is taking the stress exerted upon it.

To make matters worse, they take in a lot of junk food mostly:

1. Flour based food like cakes, pastries and other

2. Sugar based foods like those listed above

3. Sugary drinks

4. Alcohol

5. Fat based foods like oily and greased foods, butter, fried food

6. Heavy carbohydrate foods like fufu, eba, rice etc.

All the above listed foods have little or nothing to really offer the body and help the daily degeneration and regeneration going on in the body and help fine-tune the bodily function.

Soon, they discover that the body is stressed and since stress causes an imbalance in the body, this imbalance will have to be addressed so that the body can again function normally and at optimal capacity.

They believe the answer lies in the hospital and or taking medications to get the body back to shape as soon as possible. They are least concerned about what they did that caused the problem in the first place but rather are more anxious to get rid of it.

Most would even pray and cry to God asking for a healing or miracle that would take the manifested problem away without accepting responsibility for causing the situation in the first place.. The situation may manifest as:

1. Malady

2. Disorder

3. Disease

4. Aches and pain

Taking Responsibility For Our Lives:

They would rather someone take responsibility and make them well again while they go back to the same lifestyle and habits that caused the problem in the first place. Some would even tell you that it is someone from their “villages/town” that have bewitched them and is after them. All lame and excuses to have someone carry their responsibility until it gets to the point of no-return.

 

Now this article is for those who want to be in charge of their health and give their body the best healthy food and food substances they can get and help nourish the body.

They take responsibility for what they are ingesting, making sure it is healthy and nutrient packed to nourish and build up body parts. They include:

1. Protein based food – which break down into amino acids and are the essential building blocks for the body parts. Like Legumes – beans, dairy – milk, eggs

2. Whole grain based food – they supply the essentials for healthy life and include – wheat, oat. Barley, brown rice.

3. Food packed with minerals and essentials nutrients that aid growth and development of the body and they include – Fruits and vegetables

4. Water – the elixir of life itself.

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In closing, i believe the wisdom below will serve you in life:

“Thank you God, for this beautiful day today. Help me to always see your love reflected in each and every moment, no matter how challenging life may be. Remind me to always look to my heart for the LESSONS and BLESSINGS in life”.

Jean Voice Dart!

 

These words of Inspirations from the enlightened ones will serve you even more:

“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being”.

Hafiz

“Within you is the light of a thousand suns, within you is unimaginable beauty”.

Robert Adam

“Don’t you know it yet, it is your light that illuminates the worlds”.

Rumi

“I am the light of the world. You are the light of the world”.

Jesus

“Your heart is the light of the world, don’t cover it with your mind”.

Mooji

Taking responsibility and recognizing that we cause all of our core issues is not a reality for most people.

Taking responsibility to see life differently without justification, judgement and blame, rejection or anxiety, fear or anger would really help you in the long run.

Every condition, disease or disorder is a spiritual condition that has come up for review and to be dealt with and taken care of. Once the lesson is truly learnt and absorbed, the conditions or situation reverses itself and clears out and that’s when we say a healing has occurred and a miracle has happened.

Every problem preludes a negative thought and mindset so watch your thoughts and emotions carefully and guard them jealously.

Nothing can stop you if you have the courage, commitment and the discipline to move through your limitations.

‘Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love’

The purpose of life is to discover who you really are, know and create yourself and experience yourself as who you really are (not the body that houses you) as a part of the divine source to give and receive love and serve all creatures of the divine.

As long as you don’t or you refuse to see yourself as a victim then life becomes a challenge that you can overcome with commitment and consistent work and it will pay you back handsomely.

A lesson you avoided in a past life will be forwarded to the current life until you get the lesson right or understood the reason for it. Each time the lesson is more intense, than the last experience until you recognize it.

This is an interactive universe where we all work together in each other’s lessons and life whether we want it or not or whether we are aware of it or not.

Our fears always surface when we least expect it and when it does, its better to face the lesson and conquer it.

You can take back control of your life and drive it the way you would rather want it to be and have things and have things the way you want it to be.

It takes taking responsibility for all the wrongs that have happened in your life because whether you agree or not, you are held responsible for all your:

1. THOUGHTS

2. WORDS

3. ACTION

Nobody wants to listen to your cry of wolf or denial or victim mentality and it won’t take you far except you sit still, take stock of your life and determine and desire to turn it around and that’s where and when the answers or solutions come in.

If and when you are now truly ready to take back control and look out for the patterns and lessons in your life to understand the mind aberrations that are causing your problems and have taken control of your life.

That’s when the creative centers open within and you can finally have the tools to help you change the course of your life and manifest your destiny.

To succeed in life, you must refuse to see yourself as a loser no matter what the prevailing situation or condition might be and you evaluate what you can do to succeed.

The most important qualities are self-esteem, self-worth and self-confidence and that you understand that you are entitled to abundance in your life.

You can do anything you want to and be anything you want to, provided you believe that it is possible.

Victims do not hold that belief!

So ask yourself – are you a victim?

Sometimes a little help from a Therapist or Mental Health Consultant like myself and a host of others can help guide you on this journey into an amazing life that is yours and yours only.

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