Health and peace of mind are among the greatest treasures in life. Everyone holds the key to enjoying a full degree of physical health and mental peace.
The fact is that suffering and disease are present and people are afflicted with all kinds of ailments, among them cancer, diabetes, and diseases of the heart and blood vessels rank high.
First of all, what is health? And what is a disease? According to Taber’s medical dictionary health is “wholeness, a condition in which all functions of body and mind are normally active”. From this, we see that the normal, natural state is what we mean by health.
The disease is the absence of health. It is recognized that the right approach to the problem of curing or avoiding disease is to concentrate on restoring or maintaining positive health.
For instance, a nurse is taught that she must give special attention to diet, cleanliness, fresh air, rest, and exercise. If she maintains her health in this way, she will be better able to endure the strain of attending to the sick, and disease germs will not be unable to flourish.
How can we build up our health?
Proper nutrition comes first. The greatest single factor in promoting and maintaining health is proper nutrition. Without it, the disease is sure to appear. Right food forms the foundation for health. Poor food means poor nutrition, poor nutrition leads to the poor physical structure and poor structure spells ill health and disease.
There are many other factors to be considered, of course. These include exercise, fresh air, proper clothing, personal hygiene, and mental space. But we repeat food is the greatest single factor.
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