30 Sep, 2008
I’m Wealthy, I’m Healthy
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To be healthy, wealthy and wise must be everybody’s dream. What is the most valuable? It has got to be health. Health is something you can’t buy. Sometimes, though we don’t give as much thought to our health as we should.
When we are young we don’t give health a second thought. Looking after ourselves is something we don’t worry about. We live life to the full. It’s only when something goes wrong that we are brought up short and forced to think about the way we behave as far as our health is concerned.
Our attitude to health and diet and exercise in particular, is formed when we are young. Of course what we like best when we are growing up are all the things we shouldn’t eat, sugary things and sweet drinks to name but two.
It all starts to matter when we become teenagers and we begin to take note of our looks and the way others look. We are all too aware of the comparisons that are made.
Parents often have a difficult job convincing their children to eat green vegetables. At an early age, we are not the least interested in what is good for us. We rebel against what we don’t like, and in far too many instances parents lose out to headstrong children. The resulting diet in those crucial years is often not as good as it should, or could be.
Arriving in early adulthood overweight is not helpful. To have so many ingrained bad habits as far as eating and exercise is concerned makes doing something about it difficult – although not impossible.
The only real way of attacking the problem is to develop an awareness of what caused the overweight state in the first place. In a young person this can be difficult as much of the problem was probably laid down when they were being brought up. Recognising where the fault lies can be complicated.
To make a real and lasting difference it’s not diets that are needed, but a more fundamental change in behaviour. The only really successful way to do this is to learn new habits, slim habits, that will enable lasting change to take place.