We have always been told to see our doctor about our health, yet we go to see them when we are sick or when we feel there is something not right.
So really, our doctor treats our sickness.
They are trained to diagnose and treat sickness and if they say we are well and healthy it really means we are not sick or that things have not got so bad that they can find actual disease symptoms.
They tell us to get checks, tests and screening for signs of early disease yet this has nothing to do with our health.
They are still looking for disease and if they find it early enough they hope to be able to treat it with modern medicine.
How can they call this 'health care'? But true health is more than not being sick or an absence of disease.
It is really an abundance of energy, vitality and peak performance both physically and mentally.
It is about emotional balance - of being happy with ones lot in life regardless of what life has dished out or what ones age is.
Real heath gives you the ability to fight off disease and illness, you do not get colds, and you do not suffer from preventable diseases such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes or any of the other dozens of 'lifestyle' diseases that rob the health of so many people.
Your healthy body allows you to enjoy a health span that matches your long and healthy life span, rather than a life cut short after many years of pain, disability and ill health.
Many people do not have real health or have not experienced it for a long time.
They put up with aches and pains, of being overweight and sluggish.
They put up with a lack of body strength and vigor, of energy and vitality.
They go from day to day barely feeling alive, tired and struggling to make it through the day.
These people could be called the 'walking wounded' as many have poor health with symptoms ranging from mildly irritating to massively intrusive and debilitating.
How do we think that these problems are the responsibility of our doctor? How can we just drift along without taking responsibility for our own health until something goes wrong then off to the doctor to get it fixed (if we are lucky)? This is not taking responsibility.
Our doctor is the breakdown service - we are responsible for our own health.
We have to do the maintenance and eating processed foods and living a no exercise lifestyle is not proper maintenance of our health.
Around 50 percent of people in our modern world have a chronic disease or ailment; many have multiple conditions.
When are we going to wake up? We have now left a legacy to children being born today of a lessened life span of 20-30 years less than ours today.
We should collectively be ashamed of this.
Most diseases are caused by the lifestyle choices we make each and every day particularly to do with healthy eating and proper exercise.
The problem is it is much easier to put off actually doing these things until tomorrow.
For so many people tomorrow never comes.
So what are you doing? How many processed low quality foods do you eat in the course of the day? How many muscle building and maintaining exercise sessions do you do each week? Just two would be enough so it is not a lot to ask.
You should be taking the health messages to heart, and if they are not all part of your life now, you should be making changes and gradually introducing them so that they become so.
The truth is that our health (or lack of it) is down to each of us and the choices we make every day.
We really do need to take good care of our body as it is the only place we have to live.