Buying vs Doing something for better health.

9/9/2017

I do not think many would disagree with me if I say that it is easier to get people to buy something for their health than it is to get them to do something for their health.

People are in general more willing to fork out good money to buy supplements, air/water purification products or other such 'health' related products if they are touted to be health promoting. People are less willing to do much to change their habits, let alone pay for help to get them to do something for their health, such as exercise or eating better. Getting people to change their mindsets about the impact of lifestyle for health and helping them to change their ingrained bad lifestyle and unhealthy dietary habits is a very 吃力不讨好, arduous, thankless and not very materially rewarding kind of work.

Unless this changes, we cannot expect to see any slowing down of the explosive epidemic level rate of growth in chronic lifestyle-related diseases such as diabetes.

Neither knowledge or money can truly or fully give us health, only action can.

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My musings about
Lifestyle as Medicine

Ever since I accidentally embarked on this journey of learning, studying, discovering, practising, advocating and subsequently teaching about the power of lifestyle, especially our diet on our health, I find myself 'obsessed' with thinking of the obstacles and challenges that people faced in unleashing the power of a healthy lifestyle.

I think about it all the time, whether I am working in my clinic, in my restaurant or in my school where I teach lifestyle as medicine, I find myself musing about Lifestyle as medicine non-stop, so much so that I constantly carry a small notebook to jot down notes of all my musings as they come.

Here, I pen down some of these musings to share with you.

Have fun!
Doc

Lifestyle Medicine
Lifestyle is 'Powerful Medicine.'
Lifestyle is also 'Slow Poison'
We gotta know
We gotta choose