It’s a Self-Care Crisis,
Not a Health Care Crisis
If more of us knew how to take care of ourselves, there would not be a health care crisis. Quality of life would be up. Health insurance premiums would be down.
Today we have a plague of obesity, binge drinking, food addictions, depression, cancers, heart and respiratory ailments. And most are personal choices in lifestyle or environmentally related ailments. Hours of immobility at computers by the young late twenties, has resulted in muscular degeneration similar to those over fifty.
The nation that utilizes the most material resources has yet to learn how to help its people care for themselves. The first step, awareness, begins with a keynote presentation like this as a complement to current bestseller, Junk Food Nation.
We live in an economy in which conditioning to junk food begins early. Sugar, salt, white flour, fat, and caffeine are the main food groups. Flavor engineers find ways to make them appealing. We are programmed for the craving, “can’t eat just one,” rather than on satisfaction and nutrition. Junk food is designed to increase consumption.
Even if nutrition is solid at home, you have to forage and be selective to sustain it outside the home. Folk wisdom that we once learned from immediate and extended family as a natural part of living and relating has given way to searches on the internet. You have to seek it out. The community of caring has faded. Self-care is a personal choice.
School systems choose soda and junk food dispensers in schools for the rebates the school gets, at the cost of students developing poor lifelong eating habits, and cost that soda exacts on bone structure.
For the WWI soldier, there was the surprise finding that dry socks were a major key to staying healthy and in fighting shape. What is our daily equivalent of “dry socks?”
When you tell your participant to “take care,” after this presentation, each one will understand the significance of that statement.
Outline [custom-tailoring to your participants]:
The Problem: Personal Famine in a Time of Plenty
When Living Accelerated Out of Balance – WWII to the Present
Engineered Consumption: Programming the dip!
Care as a Personal Choice and Responsibility
Taking the First Steps Toward True Satisfaction
Cleaning Your Spark Plugs, Adding High Octane Fuel
Pioneering Your Own Lifestyle Toward Thrival!