Healthy habits
Friday, 9 November 2007
MANY people are in the habit of gulping down medicines regularly. The taking of medicine for them might be akin to the mentality of some people who seem to appreciate wearing glasses out of a feeling that the same improves their appearance intellectually or they look more dignified. People on medicines in this country, at least in some cases, cannot even think perhaps that they can probably stay well or get on without medicine. For some of them, taking of medicine might even appear like a status symbol. They enjoy talking to friends and neighbours about the number of medicines they take, their experiences with doctors and so on. In fact, they tend to make a hobby out of discussing bad health or health-related distresses.
Surely such people are missing the greatest of all human blessing which is to be in a state of good physical and mental health. With the body and mind in good health and fitness, the human beings enjoy to the fullest and deepest life around them. The relish that a healthy person gets from eating cannot be enjoyed by a constipated one or one who suffers from gastric disorders. The mental uplift that a healthy person gets from looking at bunch of flowers is not similarly felt by a person in bad health.
And we do not almost always need medicines for health and fitness. People who exercise regularly or walk can automatically ward off diseases like high blood pressure or regulate other diseases like diabetes, gastritis, etc. Physical activity, mental disciplining, etc., can add so much to the health and fitness -- mental and physical -- for most of us. Unfortunately, this plain truth is still not well understood perhaps in our society and the outcomes are resources wasted on medical care and the joys of living lost.
Abu Imran
Magbazar, Dhaka
Surely such people are missing the greatest of all human blessing which is to be in a state of good physical and mental health. With the body and mind in good health and fitness, the human beings enjoy to the fullest and deepest life around them. The relish that a healthy person gets from eating cannot be enjoyed by a constipated one or one who suffers from gastric disorders. The mental uplift that a healthy person gets from looking at bunch of flowers is not similarly felt by a person in bad health.
And we do not almost always need medicines for health and fitness. People who exercise regularly or walk can automatically ward off diseases like high blood pressure or regulate other diseases like diabetes, gastritis, etc. Physical activity, mental disciplining, etc., can add so much to the health and fitness -- mental and physical -- for most of us. Unfortunately, this plain truth is still not well understood perhaps in our society and the outcomes are resources wasted on medical care and the joys of living lost.
Abu Imran
Magbazar, Dhaka