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We Aren't Getting Healthier and Living Longer
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Before reading on, Please read:
We Aren't Getting Healthier and Living Longer
Why are Health, Wellness, and Eating Well
a Part of Christian
Simple Living?
Because it’s a basic part of our faith practice:
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God cares about our health, our community’s health, and the health of the His planet. Applying the principles of Christian simple living to our diets and habits automatically improves our health by eliminating bad eating and living habits in much the same way as the Old Testament dietary laws helped our Jewish ancestors.
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It is about loving those around us. Failing to keep our bodies healthy puts a significant drain on everyone else by increasing the number, duration, and seriousness of our illnesses, which other people have to pay for, either through higher insurance and medical payments or through higher taxes to pay for Medicaid, Medicare, and the Children's Health Insurance Program and other safety-net programs. When we keep ourselves in good health we need fewer prescription drugs, doctor and hospital visits, and have less lost time due to illness. By making the effort to stay healthy we don’t become a drain on society by contributing to dramatically rising health care costs, or the huge social disparities in health care that exist due to our over-use of the health care system.
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Being good stewards of God’s world. Eating healthy foods is much better for the environment – what is good for us to eat, happily also turns out to be good for the planet!
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and, THE BIG ADDED BONUS: living this way will make you feel and look better than you ever have before. You will:
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be mentally sharper,
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look younger;
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be more productive far longer,
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become what God made you to be,
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and you will like yourself a lot more. It's hard to love others when you don't really love yourself!
Here is another issue where the dials and gauges on our modern dashboards are indicating the same disastrous trends often predicted in the Bible: Our self-interest is not in our best interest - the science and our faith agree.
Research over the past couple of decades has shown that our consumer lifestyle has had a major negative impact on our health. Just as our desire for more and more stuff has resulted in environmental devastation, it has also caused us to eat lots of food that have made us fat, and has caused cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and a host of other ills – not to mention becoming physically quite lazy and badly out-of-shape. Our lifestyle is just as devastating to our health as it is to the environment – it’s killing us!
Simple is better – less is more.
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