THE LAST GOOD INVESTMENT IS YOU!

 

Most say they’re healthy when they have no pain, no runny nose, and no headache. In other words: I’m healthy when I feel good. 

Most people have no idea what the definition of health really is. 

There are three problems with this.

 1) When you think health is feeling good, what do you usually do when you feel bad? You take a drug to feel good and then assume you’re healthy. Yet, although a drug eliminates your symptoms, you may be even sicker. 

 2) When a friend recently died of a heart attack at the age of fifty-five, he died without prior symptoms of heart disease and had passed previous medical evaluation. His doctor told us that in more than two-thirds of people who have a heart problem, the first sign is a heart attack. Then, in two-thirds of those, the people die.

 3) There’s the “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” myth. Thinking If I have no symptoms of a disease, then I don’t have to worry about disease is one of the most colossal errors in judgment you could ever make concerning your health. You might not have a diagnosed disease, but deadly dis-ease can go on for years without warning.   

By the time you actually know you have cancer, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, spinal arthritis, extremity problems, sexual dysfunction, depression, and other physical/mental problems, these conditions have typically been ravaging your body for years and years. 

Merck Manual of Medical Diagnosis lists the most common diseases and are all present in the body without any signs or symptoms noticeable to the victim:

 

Heart arrhythmia                                 Glomerulonephritis (Kidney disease)

Atherosclerosis (Plaque in arteries)    Hypertension (High blood pressure)

Osteoarthritis                                      Ovarian cancer and cysts

Breast cancer                                       Paget’s (bone) disease

Cardiomyopathy                                 Spinal degeneration

Polyps of large bowel                         Cervical cancer

Prostate cancer                                   Cholelithiasis*(Gall stones)

Pulmonary valve stenosis*                  Renal calculi*(Kidney stones)

Coronary artery disease                      Renal (kidney) failure (chronic)

Diabetes mellitus                                 Retinoblastoma* (cancer of the eye)

Diverticular (colon) disease                Curvature of the spine and spinal decay

Emphysema (lung disease)                  Brain disease

Fibroid tumors of the uterus               Valvular heart disease

 

You can take multitudes of medications to eventually deal with the signs or symptoms once they appear, but unfortunately only thing it can never bring you, however, is TRUE health.

Invest time, effort, and finances into your health every day.  Surely, it’s the best investment you will ever make.