The most important verb in our health crisis

There was great commentary on my last post. Thank you all. I learned a lot from your words. This is how it’s supposed to work here. One comment in particular has stuck with me. It concerned the formation of a how-to be-healthy booklet. An information manual, if you will. I’ve thought about this many times before. Bookstores have entire sections of self-help books. There are manuals on healthy cooking, healthy living, healthy this and healthy that. What I was thinking about is something simpler, more to the core of the current crisis in health. I looked up the verb, “to choose.” (I do this a lot more than I used to. It helps me understand things.) What I found struck me: 1. pick out or select (someone or something) as being the best or most appropriate of two or more alternatives: 2. decide on a course of action, typically after rejecting alternatives. This is it. I think it’s all about choosing. To be clear, I’m not placing the burden of choice on just patients. It’s everyone, from individuals, to doctors, to medical organizations and society as a whole. Together, there has to be a selection. We have to choose health. On an individual (patients) level, one has to choose the healthy way. This is not complicated. The table of health has only four legs: good movement, good nutrition, good sleep and good attitudes. Every literate human in the Western world knows the basics. They just have to choose. Doctors also have to choose. We have to make a selection. Do we se...
Source: Dr John M - Category: Cardiology Authors: Source Type: blogs