Chapter 6
Expect Good Health!
By this point, I hope you can see that the problems of poor
health and chronic disease are basic—and so are the solutions. If
I’ve done my job, then you have a general understanding of how
we got here, what the problems are, and the solutions to the prob-
lems (diet, exercise, mental conditioning). What I think you may
not have are the simple awareness, tools, and the belief that you
can incorporate these actions into your busy life and get results.
I know you can! I have seen patients do it and have experienced
it myself. And as my beloved mother would say as she huffed and
puffed across my dance floor with her oxygen line attached and
her walker moving noisily, “You can do it!” Let’s get started!
Make Your Health a Fun Part-Time Job
One way or another, you are eventually going to have to spend
time on your health. Many people, once they reach their fifties, visit
their doctor’s office on a regular basis for some chronic complaint.
Some even wind up in the back of an ambulance or in a hospital
bed. You could resign yourself to this kind of aging process—or you
could go to the gym regularly, take daily walks, and spend a little
extra time shopping for and preparing healthy food. The choice is
yours. How would you rather spend your time?
It takes hardly any extra time to walk up stairs versus taking
an escalator. It takes the same amount of time to push your shop-
ping cart around the grocery store picking out fruit, vegetables,
beans, nuts, seeds, and whole grains as it does to get ice cream,