If someone asks you, “are you healthy?” your tendency is probably to reflect on how you are feeling at the time, and if you have no apparent symptoms, you would most likely say yes, I am healthy.
The problem is, many health problems are not symptomatic until they have progressed to a dangerous degree – heart disease, diabetes, and cancer may produce no pain or obvious symptoms for years, while the disease process is advancing.
That’s why it’s so important to choose healthy lifestyle habits – they help you to not only feel better, but to function better. What does that mean?
The word “function” refers to the inner workings of your body – how you utilize the air, food and water you take in, how well you use your sleep time to rest and rejuvenate, how fluidly you move without pain or discomfort, how you handle stress – in other words, how you work.
Anything you can do to improve and streamline the function of your body is good. That’s why regular exercise, good diet and nutrition, practicing stress reduction techniques and keeping your system free of unnecessary interference is so important for your ultimate well-being.
Developing a healthy lifestyle is at the core of this thinking, and chiropractors have been teaching about healthy lifestyle decisions for over 100 years. Ask your doctor of chiropractic what you can do to improve your function, feel better and experience wellness – making that small move can make your life better, starting today!