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During my studies I came upon the quote “food, rest and exercise are free medicine”. I never forgot it. It reminded me that health is often taken for granted as we go about our daily lives. We take the necessary steps to make sure that our bills are paid on time, that we have enough gas in the car, that we spend enough time with our children or spouse. Yet we often don’t pay the same attention to our health – our most important asset. We ignore the messages that our bodies send us to slow down, eat the right foods and wait until the point that it’s necessary to see a doctor to “fix it”.
We have become a very convenience-based society, with everything packaged “to go” so that we have more time to get all of the things we think we need to get done each day. So we often eat on the run, or consume prepared meals and rarely take the time to sit down and eat a healthy, freshly prepared meal. There is a pill for practically anything that ails you that will magically take care of your signs and symptoms. There are power foods, power drinks, and diets galore to bring you that perfect body or temporary state of well-being. But eventually it wears off, we return to the same state we were in before and possibly even worse.
With the onset of the internet, social media and technology at our fingertips 24 hours a day, it’s become even more difficult to find time to get outside or exercise because we are sitting behind a computer or waiting for the next message or new bit of information. We are in a constant state of anticipation and frenetic energy that often leaves us with poor sleep habits, digestive issues, fatigue, headaches, neck and back pain.
It is up to us to set up the parameters as to how much we will take on each day, how much rest we need and how to maintain the quality of our health. No one else knows our body better than we do. We all have individual physiologies and histories that make us unique. We have to stop relying on others to feed us, inform us, diagnose us and facilitate our daily activities. We need to go back to the basics and use the tools that are readily available to us. We need to pay attention to our health on a daily basis and give our bodies the nutrition, exercise and rest it needs to operate efficiently so we can lead healthy and productive lives.
Pamela Wake
Nutritionist
San Diego Integrative Health and Wellness
12526 High Bluff Drive, Suite 300
San Diego, California, 92130
Ph: 760 715-5301
Email: pwake14@mac.com
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