Good article... let's face it in our system there just is 'no money in prevention'.
I call it the 4% solution. You spend 4% of your day in an activity that gets your breathing a little heavy, and gets your heart pumping a little, and the other 96% of your day will have a much higher quality. You'll be less tired, more mentally acute, sleep better, etc. You will just feel better.
In addition you'll drastically reduce your risk of heart disease, some cancers, depression, diabetes, dementia or alzheimer's and a whole host of other bad stuff. You will live longer... how much longer is hard to quantify.
Let me put it this way. If some drug company invented a once a day miracle pill that did all those things for you, with no side effects, would you take it? Of course. Now say you had to walk a half hour to a pharmacy to get the pill... well maybe you would get busy and only take it 4-5 times a week. The thing is, if you walked the half hour to the pharmacy and the half hour back, you wouldn't have to take the pill... you would already have all those benefits.
IF this country could figure a way to lead the world in preventive health care, we would probably have the most effective and cost effective medical system in the world. To say nothing of a happier and more productive population.
How do you do that without trampling on 'individual rights'? I don't know. |
