Get Off the Sofa
A Prescription for Healthier Life
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People all over inflict more illness and suffering on themselves than any war has ever done. The fat guy smoking a cigarette. The thin woman rendered raw by alcohol. The kid jamming another fat-laden fast-food meal into his face. The millions and millions of couch potatoes who haven't done a minutes decent exercise since they passed puberty. But what happens to all these people? Nothing, for most of the time. But then, suddenly, there is a heart attack, a stroke, or cancer. All these life changing, irrevocable events that destroy their lives and the lives of everyone around them. Sometimes it'...
People all over inflict more illness and suffering on themselves than any war has ever done. The fat guy smoking a cigarette. The thin woman rendered raw by alcohol. The kid jamming another fat-laden fast-food meal into his face. The millions and millions of couch potatoes who haven't done a minutes decent exercise since they passed puberty. But what happens to all these people? Nothing, for most of the time. But then, suddenly, there is a heart attack, a stroke, or cancer. All these life changing, irrevocable events that destroy their lives and the lives of everyone around them. Sometimes it's not so sudden the slow suffocation of emphysema, the slow decline of health related unemployment, the desperate loneliness of congestive cardiac failure. Is all of this preventable? Not all of it, no. Some diseases just happen even with the best diet and intentions in the world. But most of it is preventable, if we would only change the way we live.
