As a fit and healthy young person, researching about the importance of health is very likely to be the last thing on my mind. I have lots of energy to socialise, to work, to study, to exercise (which I never did) and I rarely get sick. Even if I do get sick, I recover pretty fast and sometimes may not seek any medical or health assistance to recover from life’s little ailments.
And the best thing, I found out that all of this is a completely normal attitude for most people in their 20’s to early 40’s. Health wise, these years are often the prime of our life, so why pay to learn, or sacrifice our lifestyle for something which is not our No. 1 Priority? I could easily be using that money to save for a holiday, or to spend on weekend shopping spree.
Despite the fact that our youthful years bestow us with good health and a very strong resilience to illness, it is very important for me to start thinking about my own health now. But why now?
When I first discover that my mentor at the age of 49 was diagnosed with lung cancer this July'13 (pretty huge - 8cm by 8cm in size), it prompted me that HEALTH is so important and yet many young adults out there like me, never really put the into importance to why we need to be healthy.
Consider this for a moment; one in every five young Malaysian's adult between the ages of 20 and 40 are hospitalised every year for all sorts of new-age chronic sickness. Think of your friends from work, uni, the gym, etc. It is very likely that you may know a someone who are stricken with a chronic illness.
When you are stricken down with a chronic illness, life changes instantly. My mentor is spending thousands into chemotherapy treatment, supplements, medicine, consultations, etc etc...Not only that, everyone from his family members, relatives, business partners are all affected one way or another. Despite the pain from all the treatments he is still going through these days, he is a strong-willed person as he never let his illness get the worst out of him. He remain as healthy as possible, attending to work and continues to travel distances for business. During his 2nd chemo treatment, his xray results shows a significant recovery.
His determination and positive recovery instantly prompted me to share to all cancer patients his journey of healing.
We are what we eat! This is the most repeated words I heard about health when I recently started my journey as a newbie to experience health in a new perspective. For whatever sickness we may experience, it is a result of our food intake. And voila...all these years I have been taking so much of the delicious FORBIDDEN FOOD!!!
I am writing this blog to share my journey in discovering health and sharing the betterness to health concious newbies!
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