What Is Health?

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What Is Health?

Health isn't just an absence of disease but also an abundance of vitality. Real health gives you peak performance, both physically and mentally. You have a high level of energy, emotional balance and a sharp mind. Your body has the ability to fight off disease and illness, you don't get colds, and you don't suffer from the preventable diseases such as heart disease and cancer that rob the health of so many people. Your healthy body allows you to enjoy a long and healthy life span to achieve your full potential, rather than the shorter life span ending in many years of pain, disability and ill health, that are now common.

Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. - The World Health Organisation

Most people do not have real health, or have not experienced it for a long time. The Optimum Nutrition UK Survey (ONUK) published in 2004showed that only 6% of those surveyed were in ‘optimal health’, while 44% were in poor health, with frequent low energy (80%), constipation (81%),high stress (75%), PMS (women 64%), abdominal bloating (64%), frequent colds (50%), headaches or migraine (46%) and depression (46%) and other common symptoms. The survey shows that most people are ‘vertically’ ill. Still upright, but not feeling great. Doctors deal with sick people, the ‘horizontally ill’, but what the ONUK survey shows is that most people are living with low energy, aches and pains, probably attributable to 21st century life when they may be preventable with simple dietary changes.

Food is Better Medicine Than Drugs by Patrick Holford & Jerome Burne lists the questionnaire used in the ONUK Survey, so that you can find your own level of health. It also comments on the results and suggests specific ways to improve your health score.This book is recommended by SuperLiving as a good resource for healthy living.

Some of the warning signs of poor health, taken from the ONUK Survey, are:

• Needing tea, coffee, a cigarette or something sweet to get you going in the monning.
• Having energy slumps during the day.
• Getting dizzy or irritable if you go six hours without food.
• Feeling too tired to exercise.
• Gaining weight for no reason.
• Suffering from mood swings or depression.
• Over reacting to stress.
• Loss of interest in sex.
• Aging prematurely.
• Worsening memory.
• Lacking motivation.
• Regular infections.
• Insomnia.
• Bad breath.
• Constipation.
• Bloated stomach.
• No regular bowel movement every day.
• Joint aches or arthritis.
• Allergies
• Headaches.
• More than three colds a year.
• High blood pressure.

Health is the one thing you can’t buy back once you’ve lost it. - Denis Waitley

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Food is Better Medicine Than Drugs

Food is Better Medicine Than Drugs by Patrick Holford and Jerome Burne show how simple lifestyle changes can offer long-term, drug-free solutions

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Colin Winstanley, SuperLiving's Pharmacist.