Preventive medecine: changing your lifestyle

PREVENTIVE MEDECINE: CHANGING YOUR LIFESTYLE

It would be quite wrong to suggest that all illness could be abolished by 'right living', but there is no doubt that changing one's lifestyle and behaviour even a little can result in a greater resistance to illness and quicker recovery from disease.
Most of us have become sloppy about the way we run our lives and often have only ourselves to blame when things go wrong. We flagrantly abuse our minds and bodies and then wonder why they let us down. I put 'minds' first because as many as three-quarters of all symptoms are caused by emotional and psychological disease. Don't forget that the largest group of prescriptions written in most western countries is for mind-altering drugs. We also try to cope with the stresses and strains of modern life by the frequent consumption of cigarettes, alcohol and caffeine- and cola-containing drinks-all of which have provable harmful effects, at least in some people.
It is an old truism that 'you are what you eat' and it is certainly a fact that you can only get the nutrients essential for the healthy working of your body by eating them.
We are all brought up to believe in the 'balanced diet' but the adequacy of the sort of protein-and-two-veg regime generally designated by this phrase is almost certainly a myth. A 1980 study (and there have been many over the years throughout the western world) found that only 15 per cent of the UK residents interviewed were consuming a diet that could provide even the minimum dietary requirements as laid down by the Department of Health and Social Security and these are themselves reckoned to be too low by many experts. In the USA two workers did a detailed study of 860 dental patients and found that almost half had frank vitamin and mineral deficiency states and that 6 per cent had no vitamin ? in their blood at all. Another US study found that 88 per cent of 120 randomly selected people had a significant deficiency of at least one vitamin and that 63 per cent were deficient in more than one. As we learn more about minerals it is becoming apparent that most people are short of these too.
Unfortunately, most people think that if they eat a little of a wide variety of foods their body will somehow balance out the goodies and end up healthy. Modern research has proved otherwise. Evidence now suggests that modern farming practices, which deplete the levels of essential nutrients in the soil by intensive cropping, mean that even the starting point-plants and animals from agricultural sources-are poor in all kinds of essential substances. Intensive farming methods, drugs used to fatten animals and so on, have provable negative effects on our health and nutrition. A further loss of vitamins and minerals occurs between the picking and the eating as modern food processing removes much of what is left. Few people realize the grave deficiencies of their modern diet, yet government departments repeatedly assure us that all is well.
All the above assumes that the consumer is really trying to eat healthily-and I am saying that this is very difficult to do, however well motivated one is. But the vast majority of the population doesn’t try. They consume large amounts of sugar, white-flour products, fat and alcohol, and suffer considerable nutritional deficiencies as a result.

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GENERAL HEALTH

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