Why do we get sick?
O
ften when a person is diagnosed
with a major chronic health
problem, that person asks or at
least wonders, "How could this
happen to me? It came so suddenly."
the fact of the matter is, it did not come
suddenly. The disease process started long
before it was diagnosed. It can start as long as
ten or twenty years before you know you have
the disease. Usually the disease process starts
when a sufficient amount of factors come
together to start you down the road to having
a diagnosable disease. These factors can be
any number and combination of things. It
could be too many refined foods, excess
amounts of saturated fats and fried foods and
protein, not getting enough vitamins and
minerals, accumulation of toxins, not enough
exercise, not enough rest, exposure to
pollutants and chemicals, a weakened
immune system, a high stress life, genetic
predisposition to the disease, chronic
bacterial or viral infection, and other factors.
Not any ONE of these things are THE reason
for the sickness; it is the combined factors.
These combined factors merely set you on the
road toward disease. Once you are on that
road, it still does not guarantee that you will
end up being diagnosed with the disease. You
are kept going down the road by the initial
factors being reinforced or continued, and
perhaps by other factors being added. If the
disease process continues uninterrupted,
eventually it will come to a point where you
will be officially diagnosed with a disease.
However, at any point along that road you
can halt the process and usually even reverse
it by addressing the factors, the incorrect diet
and lifestyle habits, that initiated it and/or
reinforced it.
Have you ever thought what would happen if you didn’t know how to communicate
to a doctor if you feel ill or needing help.
The next links will help you to increase your vocabulary he