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Why Health-Wellness is Important
What is
with all of the "hoopla" surrounding health-wellness these days?
Employers are providing health-wellness programs for their employees,
doctors are creating health-wellness plans for their patients, school
menus and physical education classes have changed to incorporate
health-wellness into the children's school day. What is health-wellness
anyway and why has it become so important.
Health-wellness is a comprehensive and proactive approach to the health
of the mind, body, and spirit. This approach recognizes that these
three-healths (mind, body, spirit) are inter-twined and overall health
suffers if even one of these isn't healthy. This approach also
recognizes the importance of starting a health-wellness plan as early in
life as possible in order to extract the full benefits of a
health-wellness program.
Ideally,
the moment a baby is born, they should be put on a health-wellness plan
because starting them out this way puts them on track for better health
throughout their life time. But everyone can benefit from a
health-wellness program without regard to what age they begin using a
health-wellness plan.
Gone are
the days when we just sat around, waiting for age and disease to take us
from this earth, thinking there was nothing we could do to help make all
of our years the healthiest and best they could be. We can live long,
and also live well by getting involved in and acting to improve and
protect our own health. As part of your health-wellness plan you will
have the links to all of the resources you need for the health of your
mind, body, and spirit. Think of these as health-maps. Each map charts
out a course for you to follow in order to find complete health.
Some of
these maps contain the various people who can help you in being
proactive, about your health. Some of these helpful people include: your
family doctor, exercise instructors, spiritual advisors, and mental
health coaches, all working in conjunction with you, to help you have
the complete health-wellness you desire.
Other maps
contain the tools you need to ensure that all three of your healths
(mind, body, and spirit) are at their best, and allows you to keep an
eye out for potential threats to any of your healths and to act to
intervene on behalf of your health before these threats can do
potentially long-term damage to your health.
Health-wellness has become important to schools, companies, the
government, and citizens because of the drain that a sick population
puts on our country as a whole. Treating diseases and providing nursing
care to those who cannot care for themselves and cannot themselves
afford to pay for nursing care is expensive The deteriorating health of
our nation's people have driven up the costs of health care and health
insurance rates so much that many people can no longer afford medical
insurance for themselves and their families. Schools in which many
students are often sick and out of school, lose the funding needed for
after-school sports and other educational programs. Our workforce
suffers with high-absenteeism and loss of productivity as the health of
workers deteriorates. We will become less able to compete on a
global-scale if we don’t all become more involved in the state of our
health, and finding the funding needed to help those who cannot afford
such preventative health measures such as yearly medical exams.
The time to
become concerned about the health of your mind, body, and spirit is now!
We each have a responsibility to become proactive not only about our own
health, but also for the health of our country today and in the future.
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