PREVENTIVE MEDECINE: SOME ASPECTS OF YOUR LIFESTYLE
We all live in a way which does little to help us and the list of changes that would help prevent disease is almost endless. However, there are some things which are notably worth changing and which the motivated individual can change.
• Reduce the crutches you think you need to ‘cope’ with life. This means cutting down or cutting out prescribed tranquillizers, tobacco, alcohol, soft drugs and caffeine-containing drinks (tea, coffee, chocolate and colas). All of these have provable ill-effects that produce illness and disease.
Another coping mechanism that does harm is the between-meals sugary snack. This, like the aids already mentioned, stimulates the person back to life, if only for a while. Blood sugar rises as a result of this consumption, and the pancreas has to work overtime to produce insulin to counteract the glucose peaks. If the pancreas fails to produce enough insulin the person will become diabetic, and if it overproduces the individual’s sugar level falls and he or she suffers a hypoglycaemic attack. Either way the situation is not healthy and produces many symptoms that baffle doctors. Such people know they don’t feel well yet neither they nor their doctors can put a finger on what is happening. The answer is to cut right down on all of these stimulants-preferably cut them out altogether.
When it comes to smoking, if you can’t stop-it is probably the most difficult prop of all to give up-try to make up for at least some of the damage you are doing by continuing to smoke by taking the following:
Vitamin  complex-1 tablet daily
Vitamin C-l-3g daily
Vitamin E 200-600 IUs daily.
All these should be taken with food and spread throughout the day.
• Look at the way you live and change things for the better. Here are some suggestions.
1. Exercise for 10-20 minutes every day or at least three or four times per week.
2. Relax or meditate at least once a day for 10 minutes. Mornings and evenings are
best, not after a meal or you could fall asleep.
3. Don’t work more than ten hours a day.
4. Take holidays to suit you. Some people prefer several short breaks to one long
annual holiday.
5. Eat and drink healthily
6. Make a real effort to be more relaxed about things.
7. Do all you can to promote an active sex life. Seek help if you have any problems.
8. Don’t let worries niggle away at you. Sort them out before they sort you out!
9. Take positive steps to reduce stress-inducing factors that are within your control.
You may need, for example, to move house to something smaller or nearer your job,
or to work out your finances better (perhaps with professional help).
10. Take up a creative and non-competitive hobby such as DIY, gardening, collecting
something, etc. Make sure your hobby doesn’t just continue into spare time the
stresses and strains of your working life.
11. Don’t create unnecessary deadlines in your work or life.
12. If in doubt, cut down amount you do when not at work so as to make time to
communicate with your partner and family. This will increase the quality of your
life a lot more than you think.
13. Take up some kind of interest or do something that helps others less fortunate than
you. This makes most people feel a lot better about themselves.
14. Face the fact that you to a considerable extent, responsible for your health and that
of your children, and that they every right to look to you ft guidance so that they too
will live long and happy lives. Older family members have a responsibility to the
next generation a this involves helping the children avoid some of the hazards the
older members have negotiated.
15. Explore the value a spirit dimension could have in your life, and share what you enjoy with your family.
Many of these changes in lifestyle depend to a great extent on altering the way you think about health and indeed about life generally.
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