What is Health? “When you have your health you have everything.”
Source unknown, but likely an ill person. The state of being
free from illness or injury. A person’s mental or physical
condition. We know health is important especially when it is
threatened, but do we know what it is? It is often described as
the absence of disease, but we know that some people have more
of it than others. In Western medicine traditionally we have not
emphasized how to optimize health. There are some basics that we
all know: avoid some things (sweets, soda, cigarettes, etc.) and
add some things (exercise and good food). This is a very basic
approach that leaves most of us uncertain where to being or how
to know what are the most important factors. I like to view
health in terms of the three pigs story. Physical and mental
health are like structures we build with repeated choices. We
can build a straw house, a wood house or a brick house. A well
built and well maintained home is much more pleasant to live in
and much more capab