Prevention is the Best Medicine

The belief that Prevention is the Best Medicine has become more popular in recent years.  If you are healthy and want to stay healthy then eating a healthy diet, exercising, and managing your stress is the way to stay healthy.
Good health in today’s world depends on what we are willing to do for ourselves.  We first have to take responsibility for our healthy and lifestyle. How we eat, drink, exercise, and whether we smoke will impact our health in a huge way.

In western society when someone is not feeling well they may take medicine, take something natural, or go see  a doctor, which is often  the case. Many people wait until they are not feeling well or developed  a condition to do something about it.  In eastern society a healthy lifestyle is encouraged whereby one eats a healthy diet, exercises, and manages their stress.  When people don’t feel well they use natural remedies and they often allow the body to heal and get better on its own.  They are using prevention to stay healthy.

When someone does not engage in a healthy lifestyle he is often more susceptible to getting sick or
developing an illness. If the person gets an illness such as diabetes or high blood pressure it is many times difficult to reverse the condition and the person sometimes needs to be on medication.  According to Drs. Ludington and Diehl in Health Power “It is always better to prevent than to repair.”

When someone does follow a healthy lifestyle he is practicing prevention and it is the best way to
stay healthy.  To avoid getting sick the best way is to stay healthy and not have to reverse a condition once it occurs. Therefore prevention makes the most sense and is the most effective.  It also makes financial sense so that you don’t need to spend money on medical services and hospital care and all the other necessary interventions.