Health equity is defined by the CDC as "the state in which everyone
has a fair and just opportunity to attain their highest level of
health". It is closely associated with the social justice
movement, with good health considered a fundamental human right.
Equitable OPPORTUNITY actually does exist for virtually
everyone. ATTAINMENT depends on our true personal VALUES, including
willingness to learn and work in harmony with the true source of
true health (the "natural" world humans USED to be part of) and not
merely defining "health" as "prompt, temporary relief" of the most
widespread dis--ease symptoms. [As it turns out, SIMPLE food, simply
and personally prepared, is actually the most healthful. While
"modern" "sophisticated"
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quisine
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"Front Page" topics
and Other Quasi-relevant Observations
that don't directly fit any of these pages
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Affordable Health Care ---- All Natural?
Are you looking for REAL health care?
Or only sickness care?
If we're more concerned
with the unpleasant effects
of an ailment
than with its causes,
it is not Health Care
--- it is Sickness Care.
If we care enough
to do something about it
only when we're sick
it is not Health Care
--- it is Sickness Care.
Think about it from this standpoint ---
Do you prefer to have control of your own life or to let
someone else control it for you? Until we pause, "step back" and
take a good hard look at the "mindset" of our "modern" so-called
civilization, we cannot fathom just how much of our personal life WE
HAVE ALREADY ALLOWED to be taken "out of our control" --- most of
it, psychologically --- not actually, physically. For now, at
least, it is neither unethical, immoral, nor illegal to control
one's own life. But in "Western Society" there appears to be a
sort of unwritten, unspoken "gentlemen's agreement" that each person
must be an "expert" in his or her chosen "field" and almost totally
helpless in any other field of knowledge or endeavor in order to be
"a success", "important", have self-worth, and be "useful to
society" or "a productive member of society". It remains unclear
exactly WHAT we're expected to actually "produce" --- except,
perhaps, "fodder" for the ego of those who HAVE "succeeded" in
dominating others with their narrow, often questionable "expertise"
--- and who, themselves, in turn, are dominated in other areas of
THEIR life by this SAME mindset of selective, willingly uninformed
helplessness.
An ancient wise King (reputedly the wisest of ancient times)
once remarked that "man has dominated man to his harm". (Not a
gender-bias comment; simply referring to the human race in general)
Such domination does not have to be by force. The King also added,
in one of his widely known (at the time) proverbs, that the person
"who thinks things out is hated" [as in: disregarded, despised,
ridiculed]. And, truly, in today's pleasure-oriented, anti-think
culture, the IDEA of "thinking for oneself" IS popular, but serious
reasoning actually is not. For the most part, we have allowed the
culture to convince us that we're "too stupid" to understand
"important matters of life" and need "experts" to do that thinking
for us. So, whether intentionally or unintentionally, we have been
"conned" into relinquishing control of a great deal of our life ---
including our health and well being.
Granted, real thinking requires some time and mental energy that
we may PREFER to spend on something we IMAGINE we'd enjoy more.
But does it HAVE to be an "anxiety trip"? We don't need to
figure everything out today. Taking control of our life is a
beautiful, fascinating, exhilarating journey; just as life itself is
a journey. Of course, we can't "see all the scenery" in ten
minutes; but, would you take a scenic cruise with your eyes closed
or holed up in a cabin playing video games --- and pay someone else
to "see the scenery for you"? We could have stayed home and done
that! ---and for less money, energy and hassle! Of course, if you
truly VALUE momentary pleasures more than you VALUE having control
of your life, all-natural healing may not be for you; but don't we
ENJOY thinking about things that interest us? What could be more
"interesting" than feeling good daily ---not just momentarily when
we have some pleasure to take our mind off reality or a medicine to
deaden our sensibilities?
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The longer I live,
the more UNconvinced I become
that "civilization"
is actually civilized.
--- See for example ----
The 2013 Toxic Chemicals
Documentary Video
--- "The Human Experiment" ---
https://archive.org/download/youtube-GAMy4OwURck/GAMy4OwURck.mp4
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"Haste makes waste!", the "old folks" used to say. And not only
material or financial waste. Sometimes, when we're trying to pack
more "living" into our life, we're just wasting, ruining and even
shortening our life. Another saying was to "take time to smell the
roses". Meaning? If we focus more on enjoying (and caring for)
what we DO have (including our health and well-being) the less we
waste it hurrying, worrying and obsessing over some unrealistic
concept of what we've been led to believe we SHOULD be or do or
have; then the longer AND better quality our life is apt to be.
---Previous
"Front Page" topics
and Other Quasi-relevant Observations
that don't directly fit any of these pages
-----------------------------
Affordable Health Care ---- All Natural?
Are you looking for REAL health care?
Or only sickness care?
If we're more concerned
with the unpleasant effects
of an ailment
than with its causes,
it is not Health Care
--- it is Sickness Care.
If we care enough
to do something about it
only when we're sick
it is not Health Care
--- it is Sickness Care.
Think about it from this standpoint ---
Affordable Health Care ---- All Natural?
Are you looking for REAL health care?
Or only sickness care?
If we're more concerned
with the unpleasant effects
of an ailment
than with its causes,
it is not Health Care
--- it is Sickness Care.
If we care enough
to do something about it
only when we're sick
it is not Health Care
--- it is Sickness Care.
Think about it from this standpoint ---
An ancient wise King (reputedly the wisest of ancient times) once remarked that "man has dominated man to his harm". (Not a gender-bias comment; simply referring to the human race in general) Such domination does not have to be by force. The King also added, in one of his widely known (at the time) proverbs, that the person "who thinks things out is hated" [as in: disregarded, despised, ridiculed]. And, truly, in today's pleasure-oriented, anti-think culture, the IDEA of "thinking for oneself" IS popular, but serious reasoning actually is not. For the most part, we have allowed the culture to convince us that we're "too stupid" to understand "important matters of life" and need "experts" to do that thinking for us. So, whether intentionally or unintentionally, we have been "conned" into relinquishing control of a great deal of our life --- including our health and well being.
Granted, real thinking requires some time and mental energy that we may PREFER to spend on something we IMAGINE we'd enjoy more. But does it HAVE to be an "anxiety trip"? We don't need to figure everything out today. Taking control of our life is a beautiful, fascinating, exhilarating journey; just as life itself is a journey. Of course, we can't "see all the scenery" in ten minutes; but, would you take a scenic cruise with your eyes closed or holed up in a cabin playing video games --- and pay someone else to "see the scenery for you"? We could have stayed home and done that! ---and for less money, energy and hassle! Of course, if you truly VALUE momentary pleasures more than you VALUE having control of your life, all-natural healing may not be for you; but don't we ENJOY thinking about things that interest us? What could be more "interesting" than feeling good daily ---not just momentarily when we have some pleasure to take our mind off reality or a medicine to deaden our sensibilities?
The longer I live,
the more UNconvinced I become
that "civilization"
is actually civilized.
--- See for example ----
The 2013 Toxic Chemicals
Documentary Video
--- "The Human Experiment" ---
https://archive.org/download/youtube-GAMy4OwURck/GAMy4OwURck.mp4
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File:Rutilio_Manetti_-_Sant%27Ambrogio_
(hands_writing_with_quill_pen_detail).jpg
original by Italian painter
Pietro Antonio Rotari
(1707 - 1762)