Healthy Living

By: Samuel

Healthy living is essential to living a full, happy life. But what exactly does it mean? Many people think of it in terms of right diet and enough exercise.

But even that is vague and a source of great controversy. Is eating meat essential to health, or is it a sure path to cancer and heart disease, as proponents of an animal-free diet claim? And what is “enough” exercise? A power walk fifteen minutes a day? Thirty minutes of aerobic exercise in a gym four times a week? Weight lifting several times a week?

Other facets of healthy living

And once you begin sorting through the cloud of confusion regarding diet and exercise, you discover that living healthy has to do with much more. Your stress level, exposure to toxicity, and mental health all affect how healthy you are and how long you will live. Even things such as how you manage money, what you believe about God and how fulfilled you are by your career, all play a part in your level of health.

The search for vibrant health will make you weird

Once you decide to start making changes for the better, people will call you “weird.” “Strange.” “Different.” And if you have enough money, “eccentric.”

This is a good thing.

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You see, one healthy change leads to another. Before you know it, you are turning down desserts at potluck dinners, starting a vegetable garden, exercising daily, turning off the television in favor of an uplifting book and getting out of debt.

You are, in effect, living a counter-cultural lifestyle. And people who do that are seen by the rest of the culture as, well, weird.

In other words, if you are doing what “everybody else” is doing, you are polluting your mind, your body and the planet. If you are serious about healthy living, you will look at what everybody else is doing and – in most cases – do the opposite.