Being healthy is not mandatory, therefore
health is the most neglected of human necessities.
Eat in time! 'Ah well too busy.'
Eat Healthy! 'Huh but, who will
feast on the cakes, burgers and chips.'
Eat what you need! 'Oh no there is
just so much food on the table, why waste it, let it go in and then we will
see.'
Summary of all these little misdemeanours
are the diseases, pains and physical discomforts which our bodies develop.
Burppp... that is where it starts.
When I read the discharge summary of my
infant after her birth, it said, feed at
regular intervals and burp after every feed… I laughed to myself as I read, it
appeared much like a user manual to me back then. Ah but the point is, burpppp itself is not a
problem, it is the very second thing one did when one landed with a thud on the
planet, after probably crying out loud. The burppp of junk food is different.
It has a life-cycle of its own. It is closely followed by gas, not the fuel for our expensive cars, nor even the LPG gas we
use for cooking. It is the nasty, snarly gas, popularly known as acidity. Followed by the bile (the fluid released by liver to digest
unwanted fat in the body). Bile is what does the trick, it slowly passes on the
unhealthy contents in our food, into the tiny cells, each and every one of the
millions, billions, trillions and gazillions of them. Bile makes the disease
enter our cells efficiently!
It much like the Pokemon, isn't it? It
grows and matures and it attacks in every stage. First is the 'burpp attack', then the 'acid attack' and then the 'bile attack' and then the 'disease attack'... the final
blow! Those of you who do not watch Pokemon, oh well, think of the life
cycle of a Frog.
Ever so slowly, our body begins to
dissipate under its unmistakable pressure. We ignore a little bit of
breathlessness, a little bit of fatigue, a little bit of obesity, a little bit
of indigestion, a little bit of acidity. But the body is unmistakably
complaining - help me I need
health! Why don't we listen?
Because suicide is a crime,
poisoning another person is crime too. Slow poisoning oneself with bad choice
of food? Not a crime, not yet! On
the contrary, it is fashionable to be uncaring for one’s health. It is
interpreted as selflessness and therefore surest act of bravery.
Is it indeed an act of bravery or is it
just fat-headedness? And the answer is: it is only, but only fat-headedness.
There is no need for martyrs in peace time. No one will reward us for being
diagnosed with diabetes, hypertension, migraine, gout, ulcer, hernia, heart
disease etc. etc. etc. Many will sympathise and many others will find our
disease as an excuse to share their two cents of home remedies, to alleviate
the trouble. But the trouble stays, never leaves. And we get to be the object
of everyone's concern due to our suffering. No one wants to touch upon
the delicate topic of our poor lifestyle choices. No one wants to
blame us for our disease. That's sacrosanct!
The truth is, we were warned much in
advance, so many times. Listen to these... don't they sound boringly familiar? "Eat Well, Sleep Well, Breathe
fresh Air, Think good thoughts, Be happy." Oh no those are just gospels, one
listen’s to them under force, only just to be patient listener. There is no end
to what one does out of social commitment, even listen to clichéd gospels,
Isn't it?
I hate to break it, most of these time
tested, overused, clichéd, bits of wisdom on living healthy are significantly
true, we cannot ignore them!!! Tchhh Tchh. My piece of cake, my chocolates, my
chips, pastries, pastas, don't bid farewell as yet! We are throwing away our lives to
packaged food industry, junk food industry, confectionery industry, pesticide
industry, health care and health insurance industry. Such popular commercial successes,
they even have annual revenue
targets and they report year on year revenue growth. We fail notice our
gullibility!
Living healthy is not mandatory, but each one of us have the right to
seek health. That should
be the most fashionable thing to
do on the planet!
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