Health
Too many of us are out of shape - picture Elvis in 1977. What to do?
Work toward:
Eco E’s prescription for good physical health
Too many of us are out of shape - picture Elvis in 1977. What to do? Here are my tips. Of course, always consult your physician first, but I bet I ain’t wrong, baybuhz!
Food - Decrease the quantity of what you eat and increase the quality:
Exercise - Exercise regularly. And when I say regularly, I mean every day! Everybody needs exercise of these three types:
Sleep - Get enough sleep. Not getting enough sleep won’t just make you tired, cranky, fat and stressed, it can even “put you to sleep”.
Checkups - Go see your doctor regularly, even if there’s nothing wrong. Start with an annual physical and biannual dental cleanings.
Medications - Discontinue unnecessary medications. Medications are hard on our bodies and end up in our watersheds where they harm wildlife, the environment and people. How do you determine what’s unnecessary? Let’s start with all the snake oil advertised on TV (you know, the stuff that’s more disclaimer than ad).
Take my prescription, and you’ll be able to prevent (and maybe even cure) most sickness, disease and general physical dysfunction. That’s mah two cents, baybuhz!
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Too many of us are out of shape - picture Elvis in 1977. What to do?
Work toward:
- Social wellness - Social wellness is the ability to relate to and connect with other people in our world. Our ability to establish and maintain positive relationships with family, friends and co-workers contributes to our social wellness. It's also important to pursue peace, quiet and solitude: down time is just as beneficial and productive as up time. Unless of course you’re Howard Hughes, Brian Wilson, Hermie McHermit, Ricky De Recluse, etc. who preferred solitude to social. “In solitude, where we are least alone.” – Lord Byron
- Emotional wellness - Emotional wellness is the ability to understand ourselves and cope with the challenges life can bring. The ability to acknowledge and share feelings of anger, fear, sadness or stress; hope, love, joy and happiness in a productive manner contributes to our emotional wellness. Whereas venting on social media is anti-social.
- Spiritual wellness - Spiritual wellness is the ability to establish peace and harmony in our lives. The ability to develop congruency between values and actions and to realize a common purpose that binds creation together contributes to our spiritual wellness. It’s that warm feeling you get when watching a televangelist or succumbing to the flu.
- Environmental wellness - Environmental wellness is the ability to recognize our own responsibility for the quality of the air, the water and the land that surrounds us. The ability to make a positive impact on the quality of our environment, be it our homes, our communities or our planet contributes to our environmental wellness. If you’re a human however, you’re pretty much only capable of making a negative impact. All is not lost, but I sure can’t find it.
- Occupational wellness - Occupational wellness is the ability to get personal fulfillment from our jobs or our chosen career fields while still maintaining balance in our lives. Our desire to contribute in our careers to make a positive impact on the organizations we work in and to society as a whole leads to occupational wellness. For some, occupational wellness would be finding a cure for cancer, for others occupational wellness is competing in the World Pooh Sticks Championships - yes, it’s real, it’s not what you think, and it’s undeniably stupid. Go ahead, Google it.
- Intellectual wellness - Intellectual wellness is the ability to open our minds to new ideas and experiences that can be applied to personal decisions, group interaction and community betterment. The desire to learn new concepts, improve skills and seek challenges in pursuit of lifelong learning contributes to our intellectual wellness. Living in the United States however, does not. Oh yah, and pay attention to what those in the opposing camp have to say, you’ll learn more than listening to that broken record of your peeps re-affirming what you already know and believe.
- Physical wellness - Physical wellness is the ability to maintain a healthy quality of life that allows us to get through our daily activities without undue fatigue or physical stress. The ability to recognize that our behaviors have a significant impact on our wellness and adopting healthful habits while avoiding destructive habits will lead to optimal physical wellness. As Lady Liberty says, “Give me your bored, your obese, your huddled leeches yearning for ‘me time”, the wretched refuse of your teeming sofas. Send these, the lazy, dull-minded to me, to you I lift my cigarette and a bottle of Bud.”
Eco E’s prescription for good physical health
Too many of us are out of shape - picture Elvis in 1977. What to do? Here are my tips. Of course, always consult your physician first, but I bet I ain’t wrong, baybuhz!
Food - Decrease the quantity of what you eat and increase the quality:
- Eliminate bad fats, bad carbs, meat, and processed food and beverages,
- Increase fruit, vegetables, grains, nuts, legumes, water
- Eat healthy portions
Exercise - Exercise regularly. And when I say regularly, I mean every day! Everybody needs exercise of these three types:
- Aerobic – running, swimming, biking, walking, basketball, etc.
- Strength – weights, resistance training, etc.
- Balance & flexibility - dance, tai chi, yoga, pilates, martial arts, etc.
Sleep - Get enough sleep. Not getting enough sleep won’t just make you tired, cranky, fat and stressed, it can even “put you to sleep”.
Checkups - Go see your doctor regularly, even if there’s nothing wrong. Start with an annual physical and biannual dental cleanings.
Medications - Discontinue unnecessary medications. Medications are hard on our bodies and end up in our watersheds where they harm wildlife, the environment and people. How do you determine what’s unnecessary? Let’s start with all the snake oil advertised on TV (you know, the stuff that’s more disclaimer than ad).
Take my prescription, and you’ll be able to prevent (and maybe even cure) most sickness, disease and general physical dysfunction. That’s mah two cents, baybuhz!
Animals • Energy • Food • Health • Indoors • Kids • Leaders • Light Pollution • Money • Noise Pollution
Peace & Justice • Population • Poverty • Soil • Trees • Waste Reduction & Recycling • Water