You might be wondering what I am talking about here relating to the “world’s most powerful drug”. You may even be asking by now where this drug can be bought?
Other remarks could be… I am suffering from cancer, I have diabetes, I have heart problems, maybe its respiratory, or could it be the dreadful coronavirus?
Whatever it is, I could charge whatever I wanted, and many would come running to me to beg to buy this “most powerful drug”. I am compelled to write about what I feel is the most important topic for these trying times. I have done my research, and listened to so many articles that I am worn out, but feel that this needs to disseminated to as many as possible.
First of all, let me share with you a statement I heard a few weeks ago: You cannot heal in the same environment where you got sick.
What do I mean by such a statement? Let’s say you’re not feeling well, and you proceed to see your family doctor. If he is a sensible doctor who understands nutrition, and remembers by heart the quote of the Greek physician Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine: Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food, he would most probably recommend that you refrain from junk food.
So you thank the good doctor, pay his professional fees, and proceed to leave. On the way out, your grandson who was tagging along asks if the two of you could swing by McDonalds. You say “of course!” forgetting already what your doctor just prescribed to you.
That situation refers to your “environment”.
Hippocrates is also remembered for his advice to us: Walking is man’s best medicine.
If one keeps on going in the wrong direction with what he eats, it does not matter what medical interventions he gets, as the chances of dying from some other disease increases.
The No. 1 killer in the Philippines is heart disease — which has claimed the lives of Filipinos double the number caused by CoViD-19. But do we seriously hear any warnings about this other deadly sickness?
As reported by the US Centers for Disease-Control & Prevention, over half a million of the 4.8 million hospital visits from March 2020 to March this year were due to CoViD-19. Ninety-five percent of these CoViD-related visits had at least one underlying medical condition: half of them had hypertension, 33 percent of the patients were obese.
We find that the strongest risk factor for death was obesity. Next was anxiety and fear, followed by diabetes.
In fact, almost 80 percent of the CoViD-induced deaths were related to the patients’ problems with obesity.
The continued dominance of the subject on CoViD-19 in the media the world over has been causing enough fear and anxiety among the populace. Even here in Dumaguete, some media outlets talk only of CoViD, as if there wasn’t any other positive news to report.
To answer the question about the world’s most powerful drug, it can only be the nutritious food we eat. Plus the physical activities we engage in.
Nutritious food, in many cases, are much more beneficial than pharmaceutical drugs.
This modern world has only provided us with fastfoods and the quick fix, fastdrugs.
But God Himself has already provided us with what we need, in Genesis 1:29, “And God said, ‘See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food.’”
God provides us the most powerful food we need to stay healthy. We just need to escape the pleasure trap of some of the foods people normally love to eat, like too much rice and too much meat.
Healthy food and regular exercise produce healthy bodies. As in the wild animal kingdom, it is a “survival of the fittest” during this CoViD pandemic. Stay tuned and stay healthy.
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