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Given that we all want health and spend trillions to “care” for it, it’s sobering how little thought we give to its true meaning. When I ask, the response I receive is typically “the absence of disease.” Health is much more interesting and consequential than this. To define it in this negative sense is no more accurate than to define wealth as the absence of poverty.
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Dr. Andrew Weil: The Question No One Asks About Healthcare
Interesting article by Dr. Andrew Weil for the Huffington Post, talking about the big question around health care reform that no one is asking - what is health? His view, of course, is a holistic one, arguing that changes must be made in schools, companies, advertising, etc (ie, mainstream america) that encourage a higher standard of health. Better health (not just the absense of disease) means stronger bones, muscles and immune systems to prevent illness and medical problems in the first place.
Andrew Weil, M.D., is the founder and director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine and the editorial director of www.DrWeil.com.
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