Best health insurance at any price: Work at healthy living
I’ve written recently about the health care crisis in America — actually, it’s worldwide, but the problems we face here in the U.S. are about all we can handle right now — and what some solutions might be. If you look around, you’ll find a recent post I made on the “single-payer” health care model and several comments that post generated. Good discussion.But the best possible health insurance at any price is this: Each of us has to work at healthy living. And let me be the first to admit that I have NOT worked hard at a healthy lifestyle, getting proper exercise and eating properly. Confession time, I guess: I am one of the obese millions out there who are contributing to the health care problems of America instead of being part of the overall answers.
As a friend of mine used to joke often — if food just didn’t taste so good and there weren’t so much of it, I could easily lose weight. (Sadly, that friend died last year in his mid-60s.) I confess to the same problem: I really like food and I really like to eat. The fact that I’m not alone in the matter doesn’t make things any better. I would venture this opinion. If most of us simply pushed ourselves back from the dinner table after eating a moderate, single-helping dinner, America’s obesity problem would quickly be resolved.
Sure, I’ve tried an appetite suppressant or two in my day, but those things only work when you take them with a large dose of self-control, or perhaps “utensil control” — putting the knife, fork, and spoon down and leaving the dining area a couple of helpings of food sooner!
On a further personal note, I’m working on it. I had my first health exam in two years just last week. My lab tests showed I was healthier than I thought I was, so that’s good news. Now if I can just stay on track, and stay away from the old “feed bag” just a bit better, I could even get healthy again.
May we all do better to get healthy again, and resolve the majority of America’s health crisis through simple, healthier living!
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