Over at “The Healthy Omnivore” we are constantly harping on how the real health care solution is being proactive with one’s life, and not reactive!

Are you interested in attaining optimal health?

Well, here is how to replace Healthcare with REAL HEALTH CARE!

Okay, okay, you will need to know that when I speak of “health care” I am speaking of an approach to feeling great, looking amazing, and even living longer.  I am not talking about the system of “healthcare” that pushes people towards drugs and procedures.

Do drugs and procedures make you feel great?  How about look amazing?  Yes, maybe live longer, but at what cost?  Does the healthcare system in the United States really promote improving the quality of your life?  I didn’t think so!

Almost everyone who has ever looked into what the healthcare industry has become in the United States realizes that it is more about profit than it is about actually helping people be healthy.  That is why, unfortunately, we now have our “symptoms” medicated instead of having our illness or disease actually treated.

Yes, we can call this “Healthcare” but it is no more than a facade for what should be called “Sick Care.”

Let’s be honest, are people actually getting healthy?  Or, are they still sick but their symptoms are being managed?

It is pretty clear it is the latter!

How To Replace Healthcare With Real Health Care!

Attaining Optimal Health Is Possible! Relying on a healthcare system isn’t how to do it!

One of the most important things ANYONE can do with their life is to make a constant and informed effort on becoming and staying healthy.  Real “health care” is just that, becoming informed on what needs to be done to attain optimal health and implementing those things into their lives.  At “The Healthy Omnivore” we are ALL about people achieving optimal health through real health care solutions and we believe that the first and most important aspect of this endeavor is taking individual responsibility for one’s own health.

Let’s take a look at the confusion between what I am speaking of when I say “health care” or health care solutions vs what many may have come to mind when I say “healthcare.”

1.  “Health Care” and “Healthcare” are NOT the same thing!  Unfortunately, people are now using these terms as if they are interchangeable but they are not.
2.  “Healthcare” is about the “system” or “systems” offered.  For example; “what type of healthcare do they use in your country?”, or “I have a job in the healthcare industry” or “my healthcare includes an insurance that has a pretty high deductible.”  This is not health care, this is healthcare.
3. “Health Care” and health care solutions should be understood as an individual’s proactive approach to attaining health.  It simply is this, “caring” about your “health.”  Or, understanding the importance of one’s health so they are motivated to do something about it (i.e. proactive vs. reactive:  real food vs. drugs, proper movement vs. procedures, natural hormones vs. synthetic hormones, improved lifestyle choices vs. chronically poor lifestyle choices, etc.).
4. Caring for your health comes way before you become ill or diseased, it is being “proactive” vs. “reactive.”  A true understanding of our innate ability to be optimally healthy should motivate us to:

• Develop and Maintain a strong Immune System
• Create a Body that has positively developed Musculoskeletal and Neuromuscular Systems
• Recognize what causes Degenerative Disease and Accelerated Aging and only partake of those behaviors minimally
• Value one’s individual responsibility towards the endeavor of becoming optimal healthy
• Lifestyle Choices are far more important than Genetic make-up when improving one’s health

For example; Healthcare in the United States is predominately Allopathic and is greatly enmeshed with the drug, procedure and insurance industries .  These options are not real health care solutions!  Many often call “our” healthcare system a “sick care” system as it focuses on managing illnesses and disease not preventing them or reversing them.  There are other healthcare choices in the United States that include Complementary and Alternative Medicine. These second healthcare “options” normally focus more on health care as they prioritize prevention (i.e. real food, proper movement, improved lifestyle/real health care solutions).  And, unfortunately, they are much more difficult to get the health insurance companies to “see” as viable health care options, let alone health care solutions.

This is where “The Healthy Omnivore” comes in.  Over 75% of the people who are now suffering from Degenerative Disease or Accelerated Aging are doing so because of making chronically poor lifestyle choices and NOT bad genetics.  I realize that ANYONE can find an M.D. these days to receive the “it runs in the family” diagnosis, but is that diagnosis accurate?

I would say that the majority of the time it is NOT.

Can you have a greater propensity to have specific health challenge because of genetics?  Most definitely.

But do you have to succumb to those genetic propensities?  No, you do not.

Being born with Type I Diabetes, Sickle Cell Anemia or Downs Syndrome is one thing, but to be told you have Heart Disease, are Depressed or have Type II Diabetes because it runs in the family is quite another.

Your environment greatly influences your health.  For the majority of us, we don’t have to be Obese, we don’t have to be Depressed, we don’t have to have Type II Diabetes, we don’t have to have Heart Disease, etc.  We have “developed” those diseases because of our lifestyle choices, not because of poor genetics.

If “The Healthy Omnivore” fell into the same trap as most people and started believing that I wasn’t responsible for my own health, that I didn’t have real health care options, that I couldn’t be proactive and that I couldn’t be optimally well, this is the life I would be looking at:

• Obese
• Metabolic Syndrome
• Kidney Disease
• Bladder Disease
• Lung Disease
• Depression
• Osteoporosis

(By focusing on real health care solutions today I have drastically reduced my health care costs for the future.  I recommend you do the same!)

And, to be fair, I imagine that a lot of these health challenges run in most families, BUT, is it because of your family genes OR the lifestyle that your family has passed down?

Are you starting to see that if you are interested in real health care solutions you will be proactive with your health by being individually responsible?

Think about it, how often do you hear about heart disease running in the family but all of the family members have larger waists than chests?  Or, that obesity runs in the family but the family frequents the local pizza buffet five times a week?  Or, that Depression runs in the family but the family members drink alcohol, eat poorly, live in a “grey” area and don’t exercise regularly.

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It is clear that I believe that the majority of us can attain optimal health!

This is how to replace healthcare with real health care!

I also believe that by doing so we take an enormous amount of pressure off of our supposed healthcare system.  I am not sure what is so intriguing about not feeling well or  not looking good!   These are personal decisions you know?

So, if you have an interest in improving your health by doing what is best for your body with proper nutrition, proper exercise, and a healthy lifestyle, you might be interested in this affordable on-line health club.

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