Healthy Aging
"Healthy Aging". What does this mean? It has been said by
medical experts that 50% of all Americans presently 65 years
old will live to be 100!! That's the good news and the bad
news. "Unhealthy Aging" will bankrupt the country. Medicare
and Medicaid will not be able to support the millions of
baby-boomers who will descend upon the system beginning in a
few years. Private medical insurance is prohibitively
expensive now and will only get worse. How will you spend
your remaining years to age 100 and beyond? Will it be in a
nursing home? Hospital bed? Unaware of your existence with
Alzheimer's? Sitting in a chair unable to get out from in
front of the TV? Worrying about how to pay the light bill?
These are real questions facing the aging population of the
US and many other countries. Japan and Singapore will start
down this road very soon with the US and Europe to follow.
"Healthy Aging" is the concept of growing older gracefully,
not getting younger. There is no "youth pill". We should try
to look and act like Sean Connery and Sophia Loren, not
Brittany Spears and Brad Pitt. We need to reevaluate our
lives in terms of health, of course, but also in terms of
what we are doing with them. Jimmy Carter spends every waking
moment of his life trying to better his country and the world
at large. His politics aside, he refuses to grow old. We need
to rethink the entire concept of retirement. People die at a
faster rate after they retire than those who keep working at
something fulfilling.
We need to care for our bodies with good healthy food,
nutritional supplements to make up for the toxic and depleted
quality of our food supply, pure water, clean air, sun light,
physical activity (not necessarily formal exercise!) as well
as continual mental stimulus and spiritual growth. "Healthy
Aging" is a way of life designed to get us to that 100th
birthday in a physical and mental condition to both enjoy it
and remember it! It's not about getting younger, it's about
getting older. Our Creator God has provided a way to achieve
eternal life, you won't find it here on Earth. Live every day
He has allowed for you as if tomorrow you will get to do it
again. The McAlvany Health Alert devotes
each issue to enabling you to do exactly that.
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