Today we know more about foods, nutrients, supplements, medicines, & their side effects than our own parents and grandparents did. Today we have gadgets, apps, health /exercise studios, and consultants a click away.
But despite the flood of this information and relative services, millions around the world constantly struggling with minor or major health issues.
Isn't this contradictory !!
Growth in Health information/services availability and Growth in Sickness are unfortunately becoming directly proportional.
When given a thought on this, the Reasons could be:
1. Limiting Mindset:-(Mind Programming)
# Ignorance:-
As this information is easily & freely available in different media. And there is no value put on receiving this information, it just goes through our senses and is not received at conscious and subconscious mind levels.
# Procrastination:-
As information and services are there and will be there, some people don't have a sense of urgency. Becoming healthier gets delayed. It's generally opted when health starts deteriorating and not when we are at state of good health and want to take it to optimal.
Education on health and its application is like insurance. We don't know when and whether we need it, but it's always the best investment decision.
# Lack of Priority:-
We need to do exercise either by Choice now to improve fitness or at some point in life by Compulsion suggested by an Ortho doctor to repair /rehab the muscular-skeletal system.
We need to start healthy eating in the discipline either now by choice to improve our body weight composition or at some phase of life by compulsion as part of medical nutrition therapy suggested for controlling metabolic challenges.
Priority comes with a goal. There is a famous proverb "Pay now & Play later or Play now & Pay later".
# Confusion:-
With abundant information, we get confused about what's there for us.
Body science is not like mathematics 1+1=2.
Body's needs & responses change with genetics, gender, age, geography around and also emotional state. Therefore one pattern doesn't suit all and what suits a person at one phase of life may not suit him all time. Which seeks customizations & systematic applications of information.
# Association:-
Friends & Family
It is said that our income is an average of five people we mostly associate with. The same applies to our health. Our food and fitness choices are more dependent on the people we associate more. Even though we feel like doing something towards improving health; starting and remaining consistent in healthy eating and fitness habits purely depends on the friends and family we have around. If they prioritize fitness, we also do. If they don't, we also ignore.
When it's said diabetes runs through family genes, it actually means it runs through our family lifestyle.
Another point is the identity we built through our habits, is very difficult to break unless we are headstrong or our family and friends support us. When a gentleman decides to reduce going for weekend partying, our association either breaks us or makes us to follow it.
2. Media
Time consumption in consuming entertainment content on media like television or web series, short video binging, etc takes away our valuable time on planning and executing a healthy lifestyle.
Binge-watching also adversely affects our mindfulness, mental health and sleep quality.
At the same time, an advertisement
pop-ups of packed and junk foods, influence us to consume unhealthy food options.
3. One-sided Video Coaching:-
This is to put it as highlight here that although health content is freely and thoroughly available in the media, don't take counsel from videos. They are there for awareness. As we can't learn sports, swimming and car driving, etc. from videos unless there is a coach with us in the field. Same way Exercise and Diet Plans discussed in media are always a piece of general information, the speaker doesn't know your in-depth health and fitness status. Therefore, taking counselling from it could be injurious to health.
These short videos are just for our & their dopamine reward and should not be applied without checking with our personal coach and doctor.
Information, knowledge and wisdom are different levels of learning in any field.
Wisdom doesn't come with information but it comes with knowledge received from the right source in a continuous and progressive momentum backed by our own actions and applications.
It's our choice whether & when to receive this wisdom and make wise choices for our and our family's health.
This is then gradually reprogram our mind towards health.
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