Dr Anna Rolleston The Cardiac Clinic

We are complex individuals. Actually, we are complex as a collective as well. We live in our bodies, yet we often have little respect for the moving, breathing ‘house' that carries us through life. However, when sickness or fatigue encroaches on our lives, only then do we consider looking after our ‘house'.
Preventative health is not a new-age concept; it's also not rocket science. It's basic common sense. If we look after our bodies now, we won't have to live in a run-down, creaky, inefficient and incompetent ‘house' later.
I've never met someone who wanted to be sick, but sickness pervades our society. We don't ignore the maintenance of the four-walled structure that houses our family and where we lay our head at night. But we ignore the house we live in every day. We'd never clean our four-walled house with harsh chemicals that rot the timber or introduce decay. Yet, we choose to ingest alcohol, sugars, caffeine, cigarette smoke, and manufactured food chemicals on a daily basis, which do damage our bodies. Do today, what will be of benefit to you in the future. Next time you are vacuuming at home, or cleaning the windows, or fixing the fence, consider what you will do for your other ‘house' once you're done cleaning and fixing the less important, four-walled one. The most important house you will ever have is the one you carry with you. Look after your body; it's the only place you've got to live.