I don’t get sick.
OK, perhaps that’s an overstatement. I have conditions, like a heart that had a problem with blockages and a couple other things middle-aged guys get. Every condition I have is being successfully treated and I have a full life.
I don’t get sick. I can count my bouts with colds and flu over the past 15 years on one hand, I don’t get the crud that’s going around. I’m convinced that’s because I don’t because I do some things: • I eat right • I exercise • I don’t smoke • I don’t drink alcohol or take recreational drugs • I don’t participate in drama or other far too emotionally serious matters
Sounds a little dull, but like I said, my life is full.
In a recent AOL News interview, David Feinberg, CEO of the UCLA Hospital System, shared that the argument on capitol hill is not about health-care reform. It’s about health-care insurance reform.
I agree. I haven’t read the entire bill, but that’s the deal on the surface. Democrats are scrambling, Republicans are striking fear into the hearts of senior citizens, and business as usual. It’s intense drama, but has little if anything to do with health care and everything to do with money and how much insurance companies will lose if everybody’s somehow insured under a plan they don’t control.
He goes on to estimate 50% of his 800 patients in his hospital have illnesses that could have been prevented by changes in lifestyle. • Eat right (we all know how, learned in grade school) • Exercise (we all know how, learned in grade school) • Avoid smoking, & alcohol (if you can’t, free help’s available)
I didn’t know that the surgeon general was obese like Feinberg says…so I Googled her. I’m not so sure she’s 100 pounds overweight, but she’s a big woman.
Here’s what she says on the Surgeon General’s home page.
“Americans will be more likely to change their behavior if they have a meaningful reward–something more than just reaching a certain weight or dress size. The real reward is invigorating, energizing, joyous health. It is a level of health that allows people to embrace each day and live their lives to the fullest without disease or disability.”
I am in violent agreement that health gets better if we take care of ourselves and feel powerless over the lies and misdirection coming from Capitol Hill. For now, I write my little blogs and help provider agencies get their EMR running right…and follow Feinberg’s advice.
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