What Is Health

What is health? Do you have it? Do you want it?

Read this and start thinking!

Many people, especially those over 50, are beginning to think more seriously about it. We are at an age where it’s too easy to loose it. Who would not agree that being healthy is better than illness?

Maybe comedian Billy Crystal didn't, when years ago on a ‘Saturday Night Live’ spoof he humorously imitated Latin actor Ricardo Montalban. With a Latin accent, Billy said, “Better to look good than feel good.” We all laughed back then, while repeatedly quoting the phrase – including the accent. It was good fun.

Health is on your writer’s mind all the time. Surely, you can all benefit by discovering different ways of thinking about health. Being in good health has even become important to younger men and women these days; because it’s too debilitating, inconvenient, and expensive being sick too often. Also, health benefits may be running slim in the corporate work places, and also with personal insurance policies and Medicare coverage.

My interest in staying healthy began several years ago – witnessing the demise of health-compromised parents. None of the several medicines prescribed by their beloved Dr. Joe improved their life. And, so many other people and friends, near my age (and younger), are also getting sick. We should make the effort to discover and understand why. 

Health is not what you get from a Dr. Joe, or anyone else. It comes from first having an understanding of how to be healthy. Mature men and women, of age and character, still out there in the business world or pursuing a social agenda – will eventually not perform very well when existing in a state of compromised health. And, who said we are supposed to get sick when we get older? Was it the doctors... the pharmaceutical companies? Human beings are designed to be healthy. There must be something we are doing wrong in our lifestyles... to make it not so.  

Visit again. You will benefit from what I figured out. Allow it to become your breakthrough to a life of well-being. There will be more to come on this subject. Stay tuned.

~ Steve - Over 50... A Single Man's Point f View ~