Save your life by staying healthy?

Sounds obvious doesn’t it? But the reality is that when we skimp on healthy living habits we allow ourselves to become candidates for all manner of problems. Sitting still is perhaps the worst offender because inactivity sets the stage for so many health problems. Yet, unfortunately our culture encourages it with desk work in front of computers, long hours at the TV in the home along with various electronic pass-times. All of these things contribute to a too sedentary lifestyle.
Then, when sickness strikes we seek help from a health care system that is in a crisis of its own and the crisis seems to be getting worse, not better. An article I saw this morning on a popular health care site carried a review of a book called Hospitals and Health by Dr. Andrew Saul. It makes the observation that, “According to the 2011 Health Grades Hospital Quality in America Study, the incidence rate of medical harm occurring in the United States is estimated to be over 40,000 harmful and/or lethal errors each and EVERY day.”
The best answer we know of is to stay healthy in the first place.