In our day in age, you’re an outlier if you’re healthy. If you’re not rattling off your list of maladies, diseases, and sicknesses by the time you’re in your 40s (and probably earlier), then you’re the exception to the rule. Most times, we don’t think about these problems until it’s too late. Once we’re sick, hurting, and falling apart, then we look to pills and prescriptions to remedy our problems.
A quick internet search of the words “diet, exercise, preventative” will show the obvious results for obesity, heart disease, and diabetes but also for a slew of other illnesses such as Alzheimer's, menopause, and cancer. We put a lot of time and money into fixing these problems, but how about investing some into preventing them in the first place? The focus is little by little starting to shift towards preventative measures of disease control but by and large, the overwhelming amount of time and money is spent on researching and producing cures, not preventing diseases in the first place.
As individuals, we need to understand the importance of investing time and money into maintaining a diet and exercise program that is conducive to a healthy lifestyle and as a society we should put more emphasis on prevention, not responding to problems after the fact. Sometimes we don’t want to acknowledge that we have the responsibility and means to take our health into our own hands and would rather go for the “easy fix”. However, the “side effects” of exercise and eating well far outweigh the side effects (death, blindness, etc) that accompany many commonly prescribed pills.
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