A healthy society consists of healthy individuals. Healthy individuals are essential for a healthy society, just as a healthy diet (of beans and greens, said the Veg) is essential to maintaining good physical health. However, being free from disease is one thing, while being free from an abnormality can be another matter indeed. The disease might not be congenital, while the abnormality could very well be.
Genetically speaking, a physical abnormality is a life sentence, unless through some miracle and/or surgery the problem can be rectified. The famed six million dollar man is none other than a celebration of the technological ingenuity of humankind that borders on the marvelous and the miraculous—even more so, if he has a heart of gold.
Health is a concept that suggests more than having a sound physical body, running on a V12 (a can of vegetable juice extracted from 12 plants) with all systems go, go, go!
We could say these are the twelve systems within our body known as the skeletal, nervous, muscular, circulatory, lymph, endocrinal, digestive, urinary, excretory, reproductive, respiratory, and the integumentary. There are other systems in our body too, just as a V12 Jaguar E Type has more than just twelve cylinders under its bonnet.
However, possessing equipment to do the job is only one aspect of the equation when it comes to living the experience. Likewise, just sitting in an E Type Jaguar is only part of the driving experience, the same as have a good night’s sleep is just part of the human experience. Similarly, street navigation is an extension of life’s experience that requires different skills than when merely sitting at the wheel, or walking along a sunlit path whistling a happy tune, secure in the knowledge that the earplugs of your MP3 make you feel safe and sound, oblivious to dangers of city life.
The truth is when we start to move out and about, we need to have our wits about us. Not only is the air we breathe at busy intersections injurious to our health. The things we might touch, the sights we might see, the words we might hear, and the things we will smell, can also have a major impact on our well-being.
If you think that the scents and odors we smell have no detrimental effect upon us, consider what happens when we our olfactory system detects something so putrid all hell seems to break loose because our autonomic nervous system revolts without warning. We start to gag and then feel a sudden whack in the stomach. As is often the case, but not always, technicolor liquid squirts in every direction on all and sundry as we thrash our head from one side to the other, like a hooked snapper in panic, desperately attempting to come to grips with our grim reality.
If you have not experienced a lethal gas attack, then you have lived a protected life indeed. I am not talking about observing and smelling a drunk unable to contain himself and deposits a gut full of alcoholic beverage and undigested food right at your feet under the pretext that he thought you were looking for a talking point. This is more likely a men’s toilet issue than a women’s restroom problem—although in nightclubs this can be quite the reverse. Anyway, when it comes to breaking wind—a euphemism coined because the sound barrier had been broken— and defecation, women produce natural probiotics more abundantly than men do, which, while not frankincense, is not as gut wrenching as having to brave a water closet after some other meat eater has warmed the seat beforehand, just to comply with nature’s urgent call.
Actually, a disgusting response to a repulsive episode of uncivilized behavior is a sign of good health. The autonomic systems are working well and, if need be, you are ready to run like rabbit being chased by a ferret. We are talking about the fight and flight mechanism that was installed when you were fearlessly and wondrously made inside your mother’s womb—the test tube model is still on the drawing board.
A healthy society needs people who can run on automatic and respond in a positive fashion to every cry of help and every turn of adversity. However, a healthy society also needs people who can be more than automatons that have their buttons pushed by propaganda machines, or are like sheep to the slaughter, and can actually make sound decisions based on fact–not myth. To be honest, it all starts with you and depends upon the extent that you want to be healthy, wealthy and wise. You know there has to be more.
Genetically speaking, a physical abnormality is a life sentence, unless through some miracle and/or surgery the problem can be rectified. The famed six million dollar man is none other than a celebration of the technological ingenuity of humankind that borders on the marvelous and the miraculous—even more so, if he has a heart of gold.
Health is a concept that suggests more than having a sound physical body, running on a V12 (a can of vegetable juice extracted from 12 plants) with all systems go, go, go!
We could say these are the twelve systems within our body known as the skeletal, nervous, muscular, circulatory, lymph, endocrinal, digestive, urinary, excretory, reproductive, respiratory, and the integumentary. There are other systems in our body too, just as a V12 Jaguar E Type has more than just twelve cylinders under its bonnet.
However, possessing equipment to do the job is only one aspect of the equation when it comes to living the experience. Likewise, just sitting in an E Type Jaguar is only part of the driving experience, the same as have a good night’s sleep is just part of the human experience. Similarly, street navigation is an extension of life’s experience that requires different skills than when merely sitting at the wheel, or walking along a sunlit path whistling a happy tune, secure in the knowledge that the earplugs of your MP3 make you feel safe and sound, oblivious to dangers of city life.
The truth is when we start to move out and about, we need to have our wits about us. Not only is the air we breathe at busy intersections injurious to our health. The things we might touch, the sights we might see, the words we might hear, and the things we will smell, can also have a major impact on our well-being.
If you think that the scents and odors we smell have no detrimental effect upon us, consider what happens when we our olfactory system detects something so putrid all hell seems to break loose because our autonomic nervous system revolts without warning. We start to gag and then feel a sudden whack in the stomach. As is often the case, but not always, technicolor liquid squirts in every direction on all and sundry as we thrash our head from one side to the other, like a hooked snapper in panic, desperately attempting to come to grips with our grim reality.
If you have not experienced a lethal gas attack, then you have lived a protected life indeed. I am not talking about observing and smelling a drunk unable to contain himself and deposits a gut full of alcoholic beverage and undigested food right at your feet under the pretext that he thought you were looking for a talking point. This is more likely a men’s toilet issue than a women’s restroom problem—although in nightclubs this can be quite the reverse. Anyway, when it comes to breaking wind—a euphemism coined because the sound barrier had been broken— and defecation, women produce natural probiotics more abundantly than men do, which, while not frankincense, is not as gut wrenching as having to brave a water closet after some other meat eater has warmed the seat beforehand, just to comply with nature’s urgent call.
Actually, a disgusting response to a repulsive episode of uncivilized behavior is a sign of good health. The autonomic systems are working well and, if need be, you are ready to run like rabbit being chased by a ferret. We are talking about the fight and flight mechanism that was installed when you were fearlessly and wondrously made inside your mother’s womb—the test tube model is still on the drawing board.
A healthy society needs people who can run on automatic and respond in a positive fashion to every cry of help and every turn of adversity. However, a healthy society also needs people who can be more than automatons that have their buttons pushed by propaganda machines, or are like sheep to the slaughter, and can actually make sound decisions based on fact–not myth. To be honest, it all starts with you and depends upon the extent that you want to be healthy, wealthy and wise. You know there has to be more.
