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When we visit the doctor, ninety percent of the time it’s because we need someone to take a look at our aches and pains, fatigue, lingering cold symptoms and so on. It’s enough to get one wondering if our definition of health is merely the absence of these symptoms. As a nutritionist, I, of course, spend a lot of time helping people live up to their own ideas of what healthy means to them and in light of March being National Nutrition Month, I thought I’d share with you my idea of optimum health.
I was pleasantly surprised to learn how the World Health Organization (WHO), defined “health” in 1948 (they have never felt the need to update this, either): “A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”.
Continue reading Is Good Health Merely the Absence of Disease? No!