Living in an Unhealthy World

I’ve recently went to a wake of a church mate who died from rectal cancer. We were all surprised of her sudden death but then, that’s life. So many unexpected things to witness.

While we were there, I was pondering on the reason of her death. It was health related and it's very alarming. Our pastor said that serious illnesses today are 90% brought about by the food we eat. Disease starts in the kitchen, as what a documentary film reported. So we need to be cautious on anything and everything concerning our health. Diseases like diabetes and cancer are caused by too much of one or most of the ingredients in the food we eat. Given the fact how our food were processed, planted and harvested, we cannot be so sure that all the claims that one food is healthy is true or not.

And aside from that other disease were brought about by the side effects of the medicines being prescribed to these unknowing patients who have given full trust to their doctors. A drug like Actos for example has been reported to give patients the risk of developing bladder cancer. Although the said drug has been recalled and is now banned from being prescribed, patients who has contracted the said side effects are now piteously getting help from an actos lawyer who can better help them get fair compensation.

These thoughts I had gave me the realization that our world now is different. Our most precious possession are not our properties and belongings but our health. So we better watch what we eat and do the things that can take us to living a healthy life.