Why be healthy? is a very good question. Some people have the idea of eat, drink and be merry. Some other people say life is too short so just have fun. I mean all of us will die anyway.
The answer here lies in the quality of life that we would want to live. Do you want to live a long eighty years but half of it is spent bedridden? Or would you rather be hiking in the mountains, checking up on your stocks and playing with your grand kids?
Being healthy allows us to do more. Whether it be for fun leisurely activities or for work or business. The healthier you are the more productive you can be. How productive can you be when you have to take leaves of absence from the office? That is zero productivity.
Adding to that, being healthy is also more cost effective. With the skyrocketing costs of medicines and treatments not to mention hospital bills, it is cheaper to stay healthy. an ounce of prevention is indeed worth more than a pound of cure. Undergoing therapies and buying vitamins may seem expensive now but in the long run they are cheaper than getting diabetes, cancer or coronary heart disease. If you don't believe me go to your local drugstore and check the cost of statin drugs and other prescription medicines. It will give you a heart attack.
In parting our life on Earth is just time given to us by God. It may be a short twenty years or a long hundred years. Whichever the case wouldn't it be nice to live that life healthy and able to glorify God? I mean the human body is God's temple and as stewards of that temple it would be fitting to take care of it.
The answer here lies in the quality of life that we would want to live. Do you want to live a long eighty years but half of it is spent bedridden? Or would you rather be hiking in the mountains, checking up on your stocks and playing with your grand kids?
Being healthy allows us to do more. Whether it be for fun leisurely activities or for work or business. The healthier you are the more productive you can be. How productive can you be when you have to take leaves of absence from the office? That is zero productivity.
Adding to that, being healthy is also more cost effective. With the skyrocketing costs of medicines and treatments not to mention hospital bills, it is cheaper to stay healthy. an ounce of prevention is indeed worth more than a pound of cure. Undergoing therapies and buying vitamins may seem expensive now but in the long run they are cheaper than getting diabetes, cancer or coronary heart disease. If you don't believe me go to your local drugstore and check the cost of statin drugs and other prescription medicines. It will give you a heart attack.
In parting our life on Earth is just time given to us by God. It may be a short twenty years or a long hundred years. Whichever the case wouldn't it be nice to live that life healthy and able to glorify God? I mean the human body is God's temple and as stewards of that temple it would be fitting to take care of it.
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