New Health Paradigm Needed

I define a paradigm as the mental framework on which our ideas are placed and take shape. In recent history, most of our healthcare paradigm has been based on our own denial of primary responsibility for our own health. Another aspect of our broken paradigm is that we view our health as a series of separate events rather than as a process or a journey. A hindrance to healthy living is that we tend to view our bodies as immortal, invincible, and not needing maintenance.

This broken paradigm has led us into our current healthcare crisis where individuals are treated as rats for research and resources for the extrusion of profits. Most healthcare professionals are not in agreement with the way things are but, nevertheless, they are this way because the system insures it. In other words the paradigm is broken.

Here are some thought changes that we can make to begin to escape the broken paradigm:

Old Thinking	New Thinking

Doctor, fix me!
Doctor, let's work together

Pop a pill
Adopt a lifestyle

Do a diet
Discipline to change habits

Eat for pleasure
Eat for fuel

Run off some pounds
Train for strength, endurance and health

I'll always be young
I want to grow old like Jack LaLanne













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