Ostrich Policy — a collective self-deception about health
It is proven that one of the main causes of most diseases is lifestyle. Unhealthy diet, lack of exercise, constant stress, harmful addictions, etc. slowly and progressively destroy your body.
The damage caused by lifestyle can be compensated and counterbalanced by the body for a long time. Moreover! It is able to reverse the condition, to restore health, if.... if you change in time.
An example to help your understanding. With improper eating habits, overweight develops. Carrying the excess weight damages your joints. Your heart and respiration have to operate a "body larger than planned." They become gradually overloaded. If workplace, family and social stress are added to this, troubles follow one after another at a rapid pace. By the age of 50 you are taking medications, constant complaints plague you, and you feel life is a burden.
You rush from one doctor to another… but despite the handful of medications, none of them solve your complaints…
It would be proper if the doctor sat down with you to talk and explain what led to this condition, what he can help with and how you can aid your own recovery! But the doctor does not make time for this, because dozens of patients are still waiting. So he quickly writes a few prescriptions, although he also knows that little benefit is expected from them. He tries to get rid of you, because he doesn't feel like spending a long time explaining what causes diseases: which of your lifestyle mistakes leads to what consequences and how you can avoid them.
You also don't want to hear advice that says you have to work for the restoration of your health. You would prefer to be given a miracle pill that you take and your condition immediately returns to what it was twenty years ago…
Thus the doctor and the patient meet each other in the lie. One lies that the medications will help, the other lies that he believes it.
Where is the error?
If it is an established fact that the development of disease is largely attributable to an improper lifestyle, then it is unreasonable to believe that a few tablets can put things right!
There are no miracles, nor tablets that will make you lose weight while sitting in an armchair, or that will increase the elasticity and strength of your muscles.
It is time to understand that in a large proportion of diseases you cannot rely solely on medical methods! No one can live your life for you... only you can make the necessary changes.
