Living in a healthy lifestyle increases men's chances of staying healthy

It's an obvious fact that living in a healthy lifestyle increases your chances of staying healthy.

Why would stating that be controversial (except in the banality of repeating the obvious)?

Why would somebody decide to take statements of those obvious facts, replace them with a reductio ad absurdum lie, and then argue heatedly against that lie? (Perhaps there is something going on below the surface that has little to do with trying to uncover the truth about health and life choices?)

And another truth about health and lifestyle choices is that the environment makes a big difference, and most of the real improvements in lifespan have to do with public health advances like sanitation and water purification and immunization. And the environment in not everything.

Of course people should take care of themselves: eat right, exercise, enjoy the company of friends, stop smoking, choose a nonpoluted environment and so forth. There's real evidence that this will make you feel better and make you happier. I think the evidence that it will make you live significantly longer is not as clear.

One of the approaches being taken to the problem of reducing medical injury is to educate patients about their responsibility to monitor their own health care.

This is also a lifestyle problem but it doesn't mean the patient really have to write "this leg" with a magic marker on her thigh to make sure the surgeon amputates the correct leg? Seems to me that maybe the surgeon could do that.

What I want to say is men must educate themselves to monitor their own health and be responsible with it by choosing a healthy lifestyle that means to spend more time in a clean environment, to exercise, to eat healthy and to avoid harmful habits such as smoke, alcohol in excess, etc.






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