Are you “Non-Sick”?
“Non-sick” represents the vast health field between medically sick and optimal health. When you are non-sick, your energy level is low, your focus isn’t clear and you rely on caffeine or other stimulants to keep you awake and going. Typical indicators of being in a non-sick state also include:
• Being overweight
• Not sleeping well
• Fatigued
• Weak or flabby
• Stressed out
• Taking a lot of over-the-counter medications
• Not as interested in sex or having a lowered libido
Non-sickness is caused by eating excessive amounts of nutritionally barren foods which overwork your organs and facilitate fat being stored in your body. This ongoing habit of poor nutrition can ultimately lead to life-threatening illness over time, such as metabolic syndrome, diabetes, cancer and other diseases. Non-sickness is also caused by irregular sleep patterns that don’t allow your body adequate rest and by living in a constant state of stress.
In this non-sick state, time is against you. You become sedated and resigned to the conclusion that how you feel is normal, until, eventually, you have a heart attack or learn that you’ve developed diabetes. Our bodies were biologically designed to eat small, frequent meals, store calories and fat, move and be active, sleep with the cycles of the day and have short, infrequent bursts of stress. Yet, with the “advances” of living in the 21st century, nutritionally barren, calorie laden food is abundant and is as close as opening a refrigerator or sticking a hand out a car window. We have little need to be active as energy saving devices, such as cars and washing machines, are plentiful.
We get very little sleep and are stressed out all of the time. Add to the mix a food industry whose job is to make money and a pharmaceutical industry whose sole purpose is to treat sickness, and we begin to see a clearer picture of why optimal health can be difficult to achieve. In truth, the odds are actually stacked against you and your health with “non-sick” as the eventual winner. These industries do NOT have your best health interests at heart. All the while marketing agencies are getting rich promoting the latest, greatest magic pill and food science is getting better at knowing how to trick the human brain into wanting more and feeling less satisfied. Face it…thin and healthy just isn’t profitable… sickness is…and at YOUR expense!
The good news is that moving from being non-sick to optimal health is a relative short journey.
Taking the RIGHT steps each day will improve your health and give your body the space it needs to repair itself, and being at your ideal weight is a vital part of your journey.
Achieving and maintaining your ideal or optimal weight is essential to walking in the optimal health you were created to enjoy.
