Dear World
We ALL know that our lifestyle choices are not always taking into consideration what our body needs for optimum health and vitality.
We are bombarded with ‘lifestyle’ marketing and we cannot escape it.
Equally, we are inundated with ‘Solutions’ to fix the ills that come from our lifestyle choices.
Yes – you read correctly. This is crazy.
Why are we not waking up to the fact this is all upside down and makes zero sense, yet we subscribe to this model of life?
Who sold it to us and WHY?
Does it suit us to be irresponsible because we have lifestyle choices that harm our body?
A few examples that most of us can relate to:
1. We do not honour our Sleep and wake cycle. We know there is a natural way and yet we do what we want, go to bed when we want and have an attitude that it is ok to be living with little, if any real quality sleep.
We have lots of distractions and we subscribe to them like going out Late to party, eating out late, taking Drugs, flicking the Net, binge watching TV, following our Social Media influencers, to name a few things we get up to and avoid quality sleep time.
We have a multi-billion dollar sleeping aids industry telling us it can fix our sleep problems but we all know this does not work. If even one thing worked then we would put this industry out of business.
YES – this is a LIFESTYLE CHOICE
2. We enjoy our glass of beer or the wine with our meal and over the years the Alcohol consumption has gone up.
We know that it helps to numb all the things that we don’t want to deal with on that day and what happened in the past.
We make out we are just ‘relaxing’ and there is nothing wrong with having a scientifically proven poison that happens to be legal called Alcohol.
This is our lifestyle choice and we champion it and turn a blind eye to those that are addicted to the point where it is painfull to see the suffering.
We never want to hear about blogs like the one on this website called Alcohol Awareness, giving 300 news stories around the world spelling out the utter abuse that Alcohol causes.
We never want to associate ourselves with a drink that is at the centre of domestic violence.
And there are days where the Alcohol is not cutting it like it used to. It is like we have a tolerance and we need more of the same to get the same feeling we seek and desire.
For some, it now means the next step and another lifestyle choice is made – Drugs.
Maybe some Cannabis as we heard it is legal in some parts of the world and it happens to be a natural plant, so we jump on the bandwagon or we go straight for the white stuff called Cocaine.
Or we want to party all night and know that we cannot stay awake, so to fight our natural state we consume party drugs – the stuff that buzzes us and we have no recollection the next day of our movements.
YES – this is a LIFESTYLE CHOICE
3. We ALL know Caffeine is a legal drug and we find it in our Coffee and energy drinks and our supplements and medicines. We need our Caffeine fix first thing in the morning and without it we cannot get started.
We like the high, the buzz we get and we do not want to hear about any side effects or what it is actually doing to us inside our body.
The whole world and its brothers are doing Coffee and we know it happens to be the 2nd largest traded commodity in the world.
We do know it is a drug because it alters our natural state.
We all know that coming off Caffeine is not easy and that is our sign this is an addictive drug.
We think we are Smart by moving to energy drinks or doing both but who are we Fooling really?
We like to forget that Caffeine races us and in that heightened state of being, we are artificially running our body and it comes at a cost.
We have this habit of talking about the Caffeine affecting our Sleep and yet we do nothing to make the moves to change.
We are comfortable in the un-comfortable-ness we feel as a result of consuming Caffeine, as it is a lifestyle choice we are not willing to admit is not working for us.
YES – this is a LIFESTYLE CHOICE
Next –
Simple Living Global has a Lifestyle Choices Category on this website and each article is worth reading as they simply present another way to live human life.
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Dear World
The above list of topics are the everyday stuff we can all relate to.
There are 122 opportunities here and inside each one there is another offering of what is possible, if we are open to considering Another Way to Live.
Nothing is working and our rise in illness and disease is a confirmation that our Lifestyle Choices need to be addressed. Failure to do this leads to a correction and this is what we can all avoid if we simply take the steps to Change what is not working, has never worked and never will work.
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Comments 1
CNN – 20 February 2024
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/20/health/ibs-prevention-healthy-lifestyle-study-wellness/index.html
A new study has found that adopting a healthy lifestyle could reduce the risk of Irritable Bowel Syndrome or IBS.
42% drop for adults in midlife and older who were physically active, got enough sleep, ate a quality diet, moderated alcohol intake and did not smoke – the risk for developing the gastrointestinal disorder.
This common disorder affects 5% – 10% of the global population. 1 in 10 people worldwide.
The impact of the disorder on the stomach and intestines and on mental well-being is well recognised but the cause of the condition is not fully understood.
21% lower risk of developing IBS symptoms for participants who exhibited one behaviour.
36% for those who took on two behaviours.
42% lower risk for those with 3 to 5 of the behaviours.
Those who maintained none of the healthy behaviours were at the highest risk of developing the condition.
When analysing the behaviours separately, the study team found that getting a good amount of sleep each night was the most influential in reducing the risk of IBS.
27% lower risk of developing IBS compared with those who do not.
The study was published in the British Medical Journal GUT
Conclusions:
Adhering to a higher number of healthy lifestyle behaviours is significantly associated with a lower incidence of IBS in the general population.
Our findings suggest the potential of lifestyle modification as a primary prevention strategy for IBS.
https://gut.bmj.com/content/73/6/922
“Although lifestyle modification is recommended as a means of managing IBS symptoms, its potential role in preventing the onset of the condition has not been given due attention.”
https://www.bmj.com/company/newsroom/adopting-healthy-lifestyle-strongly-linked-to-lower-irritable-bowel-syndrome-risk/