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Food Allergies

Path To Wellness
Nov 10, 2020

In order to obtain health we must understand what health is.  Most dictionaries define health as the state of being free from illness or injury.  Is that all health really is, the absence of illness and injury? If you look good, feel good, and have no physical injury or illness then you are healthy, right? Unfortunately, many people view health in this manner. They fail to realize many of today’s illnesses take years to develop until they actually affect how you feel. You must take into consideration that it can be anywhere from 20 to even 30 years for your arteries to clog enough to lead to a heart attack. The cancerous cell that killed someone in their fifties could have been present in their twenties! I prefer the definition of health as stated by the World Health Organization, “A state of optimal physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”.  This definition makes it clear; health is not just simply “the absence of disease or infirmity”, but more importantly the “state of optimal physical, mental and social well-being”.  Therefore health is not necessarily feeling good or being absent from disease and illness, but more importantly the optimal function of the body and mind.  With the focus on optimal function, we now have a different measuring stick than symptoms, disease, illness, or injury to delineate if we are healthy or not.

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