Health Thoughts while preparing a simple meal

I'd like to update my activitybased blog tonight. First off, I feel I had good running days last week. I managed a 4.5 miler Sunday, a 5 miler Tuesday, a 7 miler Thursday and a 10 miler Saturday. This is exciting to me in view of my recent rib cage pain that prevented me from any work-out the last three weeks. I did not see the MD thinking that the pain would eventually go away on its own. The initial intensity of the pain made me suspect a rib fracture but after three weeks I became sure it was more an intercostal muscle strain. Besides, what can the Ortho MD do for a rib fracture unless it involves the lungs? Once the pain subsided by the end of last week, I quickly returned to my running. I am no longer thinking of running to prove anything . True I had days in the past when I wanted to prove speed for my age, Nowadays, I am just contented wth what I can accomplish healthwise through running. Yeah, to be able to indulge in active lifestyle is more improtant to me than anything else. I can have wealth, beauty,intelligence but if I were limited on a hospital bed, then what's the value of my possession?
I want to talk about health tonight, because it is a topic very close to my heart and my profession. This morning I read the news about 1 out of every 5 of us suffering from high blood pressure and it's made worse by our inability to know it until it's too late.
We must know this hypertension is epidemic and it willl soon destroy us. High blood pressure is usually ignored by people because it does not bother them much and it is some sort of 'expected' condition once you reach a certain age. Hypertension is not an automatic disease. It can be preventable naturally if you detect it early on. And if you do something about it.
Many of us tend to think that saving people's lives includes only heroic acts. Resuscitating a drowning victim, giving CPR to a cardiac arrest, saving a young person from a fire, being a surgeon doin surgery, being a Nurse employing skills, becoming a paramedic sving people in emergent care. Yet we ignore one of the most significant act of heroism that saves lots of lives. It's teaching people a healthy lifestyle.
I've been in medical/rehab field for so long that I feel entitled to telling people how to live good lives. It certainly doesn't involve eating whatever, doing nothing and worrying to death about many issues in life Living a good life does not resort to drugs or smoking or partaking in high risk vices and food – that's not good life – it's more of an escape.
I always tell people that if God intended us to be completely vegetarians He could have provided us no teeth. And if He meant us to be exclusively carnivores He could have gifted us with the strongest and sharpest teeth that can rip off fresh meat.
We need to always consider our physical structure : its strengths and limits before we indulge in things we do. Our struggling existence in primitive times have been overtaken by our modern conveniences. It is said our stomachs were originally designed for hybernation because in our early days of hunting, we've got to store as much food as we could into our stomachs because you'd never now where the next kill would be.
Thanks to man's brain, we managed to create a lot of conveniences for our selves. Now we simply go to groceries to horde our weekly food, in fact, we skip the load of groceries and food preparation most of the time by simply reserving seats in restaurants.
Well, it doesn't work that way.

Preparing a simple veggie meal with chicken and fish:



get the stuff ready veggies except for the milk



onion, garlic, chicken fingers in small cuts, in vegetable oil which I drained later on



Now after washing thoroughly, we bring into the pot, veggies, your choices will do



I fried whiting and tilapia for added variety in my meal



Now it's ready...