I’m Wealthy, I’m Healthy
If you’re healthy, then you are wealthy indeed. Health isn’t something you can buy, but it’s something you can influence, it’s something you can nurture. But do we give our health much thought?
Youth has little or no time for anything as boring as health, yet our early years are very important when it comes to building a ‘health platform’ for our future. When you’re young you don’t give a second thought to health – that is until something goes wrong, but you believe that it never will.
Diet is somebody else’s concern when we are young, we don’t worry ourselves about it. All we are interested in is getting more of what we like – which is usually candy, cake and cookies washed down with copious quantities of cola.
Only when we reach our teenage years do we take more note of the way we look. Now we notice if we’re fatter than our friends. It starts to matter.
Parents often have a difficult job convincing their children to eat green vegetables. At an early age, we are not the least interested in what is good for us. We rebel against what we don’t like, and in far too many instances parents lose out to headstrong children. The resulting diet in those crucial years is often not as good as it should, or could be.
To be overweight in your early twenties is not a good thing to be. You are probably not aware of what made you overweight and you have very little idea of how you are going to change matters.
The most important thing is to break bad habits and that requires developing an awareness of what they are. Many of the bad habits will have been endorsed by upbringing. To go against this can be a challenge. What has been accepted as a family culture in terms of diet and exercise takes real resolve and determination to change.
Change can be made easier by not going against the norm, but by learning new habits – slim habits, if you like. New habits will enable change to take place without having to directly confront the past.
