16 April 2014,
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When you think about it it makes complete sense to take charge of your own health. Your health is yours alone, and your illness is yours as well.

So many people outsource all of their health requirements to their doctor. Carry on with life and if anything goes wrong with your health visit the doctor and get it fixed.

The problem with that approach is that doctors can’t fix everything, in fact many of the nasty diseases in life aren’t really treatable. Like many types of cancer.

If you take charge of your own health then you shouldn’t need to visit the doctor. You should be healthy regardless.

Of course being responsible for your own health isn’t easy

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to make taking charge of your own health sound easy. It takes some work.

For instance there is absolutely no doubt that one of the most important things you can do to stay healthy is to exercise. So many people don’t exercise, and this is opening them up to so many health problems.

I realised years ago that exercise had to become a regular part of my life whether I wanted it to or not. So I made a conscious decision that I would find an exercise regime that I enjoyed and which fitted in with my life, and I would make regular exercise a permanent part of my life.

I’ve done that, I now cycle around 200 kilometres a week.

And there’s more effort required than just taking up exercise. For instance you need to eat properly. Eating a good healthy balanced diet is essential.

And there’s more. For instance I’ve recently started taking a fish oil supplement because there is significant evidence that we are deficient in our intake of the Omega 3 fats and this can increase our risk of a heart attack. I read the information from the American Heart Association and decided it applied to me.

Mind you it was difficult to decide which one to take, finding the best fish oil supplement isn’t easy. (I read this article, and that helped).

And it’s important to keep your mind busy as well

And of course you have to keep yourself mentally and physically challenged to keep your brain active.

I do some online mental challenges every day to keep my brain active. I also try to learn new things regularly, I’m learning a language at the moment and shall be for a long time.

I’m also trying to learn some new skills which will be useful to me. Lately I’ve decided to learn how to sharpen my kitchen knives, they were all blunt. I discovered that sharpening a knife isn’t as easy as you might think, so I bought the best knife sharpener I could find and started learning. I read more about sharpening knives before I bought a sharpener as it’s much more complicated than you would expect.

So if you’d like to stay healthy, rather than just rely on the doctor to fix you up when you get sick, you need to be proactive. Learn about what you need to do to stay healthy, both physically and mentally. Once you’ve decided what you need to do make a conscious mental decision to do it every single day of your life.

You won’t regret it. It takes some work but you’ll be healthier (and happier) than most other people.

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