Sometimes, it’s admittedly easier to ignore a problem than to deal with it.
Maybe there are a bunch of problems with your car, but you don’t have the time or money to fix them right now. Your front door’s been squeakin’ somethin’ fierce, but you’ll get to it next week, for sure. Your clothes are definitely all neatly put away — in piles.
Odds are you do the same thing at the doctor’s office.
You’ll start exercising for next year’s resolutions, right? Next time you’re at the grocery store, you’re totally going to pick up more veggies than fatty chips to munch on, if you remember. You didn’t mean to stay up an extra hour on Netflix. Instead, you wanted to crawl into bed a little early to get a full eight hours of sleep, then wake up and drink, like, ten cups of water.
Stop not doing all of those things, and start doing them.
They’re good for you! Even those annoying chores are good for you.
We’re not perfect beings. Pretty much everything we choose to do to our bodies is destructive in one way or another.
Instead of doing too many extreme things to our bodies, let’s choose to do good things to them. Like feeding it the right stuff as much as possible.
“Telling me to eat well and maybe exercise more? What is this editorial, my mother?” you might say before you flip to the page that has the crossword puzzle.
No, we’re not your mother. But we are about to advocate a vegetarian lifestyle. Hear us out, though.
A recent British study said that vegetarians “have about a third less risk of hospitalization or death from cardiovascular disease than meat-eaters do,” according a U.S. News article.
“Most of the difference in risk is probably caused by effects on cholesterol and blood pressure, and shows the important role of diet in the prevention of heart disease,” said Francesca Crowe, the lead researcher of the cancer epidemiology unit at the University of Oxford, according to a Science Daily article.
“Vegetarians typically had lower body mass indices (BMI) and fewer cases of diabetes as a result of their diets, although these were not found to significantly affect the results,” the article said.
Obviously, you’re allowed to do whatever you want. You’re an adult, and that’s how living works. However, if you’ve been told to get a little more healthy recently, or you’ve been feeling sluggish, consider doing something about it.
Too many times do we, as a society, put something off until it’s too late.
Look at America’s gun control discussion. A lot of the rhetoric is asking why we waited so long to do anything about it.
The U.S. is the fattest country, according to www.nationmaster.com. We also have the most crimes, and we’re ranked 18th in “math literacy.”
How are we supposed to live long and prosper if we don’t try to live long first?
Do yourself a favor, and take a second to look at how you can take steps to improve your health. Then do ‘em.
