Actual "Health Equity" Can Be Yours

"Health equity" is defined by the CDC (U.S. Center for Disease Control) as "the state (as in "condition", "situation", "circumstance"---not a POLITICAL state, province or country) in which everyone has a fair and just opportunity to attain their highest level of health". It is usually associated with social justice movements -- -- good health being considered a fundamental human right.

What a beautifully noble, simple and straightforward concept to have such enormous potential for becoming complicated! Not just Socially and Politically; but even more, by our widely divergent informal "definitions", perceptions and objectives. TRULY-better "health", for example, does not come from more or "better" medicine. REAL HEALTH ---the fullness of the biological processes that constitute life--- is not merely "prompt, temporary relief" of the most widespread dis--ease symptoms (just as true peace is not merely the absence of open conflict).

Some years ago, The World Health Organization was quoted as saying [apparently referring to things we have done AND things we have neglected]: "We have inflicted wounds on ourselves, in the belief that science, doctors and hospitals would find a cure, instead of preventing the very causes of illness in the first place. Of course we cannot do without the medical care facilities that actually save life, but let us be clear that they do not add to our health ---they stop us dying. ..." ----[POSTPONE dying, actually ---ed.]

While the "right medicine" at the "right time" MIGHT TEMPORARILY "cure" a "dis-ease" (the distressing outward manifestations of an illness) but not the illness itself, truly equitable opportunity to attain our "highest level of health" (and especially the actual ATTAINMENT of such) depends on our willingness to genuinely think, reason, learn and work in harmony with the true biological source of true health --- the "natural" world and its cycles and processes that humans USED to be a part of. Even now, the "fair and just OPPORTUNITY" to do so is not as elusive or as complicated as it might seem. As it turns out, simple basic REAL food (LIVE food, as in "live music"), simply and MINIMALLY prepared, is actually your body's BEST (and sometimes, only) SOURCE of the BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS it needs to carry out it's marvelous internal self-healing, self-renewing functions. (To have REAL health --- which is to stay as fully alive and functional as possible --- your body must "re-construct" itself constantly.) So the more "modern" and "sophisticated" the "cuisine" the less of those essential elements are still biologically available ---- often, little more than in the seemingly cheaper and more convenient "fast food" on the OTHER end of the culinary spectrum --- the resulting biological damage to the human body and the consequent Medical costs eventually prove neither cheap NOR convenient, of course.
We tend to use the terms "illness" and "disease" interchangeably --- and rather loosely. Grammatically, the word "disease" is simply "dis" plus "ease" --- meaning not at ease, dis-comfort, distress. In other words, the "SYMPTOMS" of the ACTUAL illness --- the biological damage, deficiency or other malfunction that CAUSES the distress, dis-comfort, dis-ease.
While we may congratulate ourselves that our ability to reason on "abstract" (not here-and-now or otherwise tangible) concepts, "look ahead" and plan for or avoid certain eventualities makes us superior to the "lower forms of life", our human nature's live-for-the-moment tendency typically concentrates on treating dis-ease and keeping the real illness "out of sight, out of mind"; much like throwing the cheapest available plastic tarp over a damaged roof and considering the repair complete.

True attainment of REAL "health equity" requires a certain personal involvement --- not politically or socially --- actual conscious, purposeful involvement in the real biological needs of our own life --- not just its pleasure or other superficial qualities. We can neither wishfully nor protestingly look to any human government or other agency to bring it about. Ultimately we have to "take the bull by the horns" (our own old habits and thought patterns often being the most "bull-headed") and "wrestle the beast down". Our biological quality of life has to be more important to us than any emotional or other biologically external elements of our life that we might tend to thoughtlessly and momentarily prioritize.

The purpose of this collection of short essays is to share with you completely free educational information that will help YOU to CULTIVATE (and possibly even restore) the priceless qualities of true health and wellness DAILY as a simple, uncomplicated, enjoyable way of life (rather than trying unsuccessfully, after they're gone, to "purchase replacements") --- not "effortless" but neither difficult nor boring (unless, of course, one is simply not truly interested in genuine well being but only the absence of pain or other suffering)---

---AND to defend the reasonableness of taking charge of this aspect of one's life, rather than merely existing --- passively captivated by a broken system of commercially controlled food "science" (that is not really food) and health-care "science" that is largely only sickness-care. This is not some sinister "conspiracy" by any part of the system --- just business as usual. You have to "sell what sells" to stay in business, you know; and most of us in the "modern world" are too busy chasing our undefined (and probably undefinable) "dream of success" --- and/or too mentally/emotionally intimidated by the culture's "experts" --- to realize there IS anything else besides what the system "hands" us --- which is typically whatever is most commercially profitable; not what is mentally, emotionally or biologically profitable and beneficial for US. No conspiracy in that, either; just more human-nature-as-we-know-it.

In the free e-book "The Truth About Natural Healing" that embodies this collection and is offered freely as a public service, [---see right-hand column--->] you'll read about a sickly kid who, early on, recognized BEING one of those specimens that according to Darwin was not supposed to survive (but now that it has, we have to figure out what to do with it), and who has learned to live actively and well for WAY over half a century with absolutely no medicine --- ever.

---- About a young lady who was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia and told she would suffer with pain and fatigue for the rest of her life; but started reading the ingredient labels on every food she purchased; simply STOPPED eating things that could NOT be clearly identified "as having come from a plant or animal in nature"; and within just a few months all of her symptoms disappeared!

For most people who have not yet done completely irreversible damage to themselves, a healthy life can be just that simple --- not "effortless", but not difficult --- even if we were not (according to Darwin) "supposed" to have one.

Start learning HERE why and how this is so --- and enjoy the journey! OR for a quick preview, check out the linked list in the side bar on the right. It's recommended that you read them in the order shown. They're each (hopefully) conveniently linked to the next in that order because each lays a foundation for what follows. But if one topic seems especially needed in your life right now, it shouldn't be completely incomprehensible without the others.

We can fool ourselves into imagining that life and health are major priorities when, actually, our primary PURSUIT may be PLEASURE, while our REAL concern for LIFE may be only in the enjoyment of the moment ---- with, possibly, an OCCASIONAL fleeting fear of injury, serious illness or death ---- which soon passes if we're still able to flit from one "good time" to another.

John Flannery, Richmond County, North Carolina, USA
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The Truth About "Natural" Healing
--- Ten Things You Should Know

1. What IS It --- REALLY? --- Scientific "Alternative Medicine"? OR Psychosomatic Occult Superstition?

2. The Issues --- Widespread Claims & Misconceptions

3. Is It Safe?

4. Is It Scientific?

5. Is It Legal?

6. What's the REAL Problem?

7. Is It Enough? --- Growing Up REALLY Drug Free --- A True Story

8. Is It For YOU?

9. How Does It Work? --- Unconventional Concepts of Illness & Health

10. How You Can Learn More

Appendix --- Questions from Readers and Other Observations

Appendix 2 --- Natural Healing/Prevention of the Alarming Illnesses Associated with Coronavirus and Other "Microbes"
--- and --- why Medicine is a Blue Poly Tarp

Appendix 3 --- Fake Food --- Real Food --- The Simple, Uncomplicated Basics of Truly "Eating Healthy"

Living Wills, Advance Medical Directives, and Serious Considerations

Editorial "Scribble Notes" ---Previous "Front Page" topics; and other Quasi-relevant observations that don't directly fit any particular page here

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