“ As advocate for Better Health, our group travels to introduce our products and services for preventive health measures. The common reaction we get is that most associate health products with its cost. From the many we encountered, health care and nutritional needs are at the bottom of their list. This observation made us more determined to do more advocacies on the Practice of Health Preventive Maintenance. We must not wait till we are ill to pay attention to our health. We instead have to work at it as if our lives depended on it because it really does.”
Prevention are the actions we take to prevent us from illness and promote better health measures to reduce or avoid the need for secondary or tertiary health care. Cure is to make healthy again through treatment. Remedies such as: medicine, therapy and surgery are prescribed by doctors to relieve pain and heal diseases.
Prevention means to prevent you getting it in the first place, and curing something is getting rid of something you have, so it is better to prevent and not actually get a disease in the first place rather than suffering from a disease and having to cure it. Primary prevention aims at averting the occurrence of a disease and secondary prevention is to limit the disability by preventive measures, early diagnosis and prompt treatment. The preventive measures works before the patient goes to hospital for cure.
We were taught or told as early as in our childhood days to take measures to avoid getting sick. Simple habits such as washing our hands before eating, brushing our teeth to avoid tooth decay, exercise to keep fit and vaccination against diseases, etc. but we all know that these are not enough to prevent us from getting sick. As a child, we were also taught the ‘An Apple a day Keeps the Doctors Away. ’In our very busy lives we forget the significance of nutrition for our wellbeing and have not the time to listen to our nutritionist or visit the doctor. We wait till we are very ill then we are willing to try anything, spend everything we have to get our health back.
In our modern society we are introduce to fast foods, street foods and junk foods which we love because they are very convenient to gulp down as we rush to our routines or simply prefer them because they are the fad of the century. We ignore or think that food supplements are expensive without realizing that they are what we need instead of that delicious looking burger.
In one of the meetings I attended, a nutritionist speaker said that to get the full nutrition value of the kind of food we eat (example banana) we have to eat a kilo of it. But the human body is not designed to support food intakes by the kilo of each food nutrition type it needs so we take them in small proportions. Health conscious individuals would prepare fresh vegetable or fruit juices so that they can take more of it. Food is very crucial to our health but are we getting enough vitamins from our daily diet? Food supplements are therefore essential to supplement that lacking vitamins needed by our bodies.
The more vices and unhealthy habits we have such as: alcohol, tobacco, lack of sleep, fast foods or obesity, the more we should pay attention to health food supplements. Eating healthy and proper nutritional food supplements together must be the vital ingredients for our wellness. If we think they are expensive, try the cost of cure and the pain that goes with it.
"Ill-health of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!" Thomas Carlyle
