Yes, I have heard this one quite often! Don’t get me wrong; there is nothing wrong with “feeling healthy!” However, feeling healthy and actually being healthy may be two very, very different things.

Have you ever heard about some of the basketball players and marathon runners who looked to be in the peak of health and dropped down dead? Do you remember Michael Landon? He played the part of ‘Little Joe’ in Little House on the Prairie.

When he was diagnosed with cancer, he said in a television interview “I have never felt better in my life”. Six months later he died.

Have you ever thought about the fact that people degenerate over time and may not be aware of severe health issues?

That they just seem to accept that illness is a consequence of getting old?

The reality is that our bodies are very forgiving and adapt to so many stresses. Yet, sometimes, there’s no warning before sudden death or critical illness.

Let’s just take a hard look at the facts and what you are facing in today’s world:

· A man’s chances of getting cancer during his lifetime are now 48% (almost half) and a woman’s chances are now

. 38%. The Canadian Cancer Society is now saying 50% of the Canadian population will have been diagnosed with some from of cancer by the year 2010.

· In 1900, 5% of the US population died of heart disease, cancer, or diabetes. Today, 95% of us will die from any combination of these causes.

· In the last 20 years, in spite of billions of dollars spent on research, cancer has moved from the number 8 killer of Americans to the number 2 killer.

· Every year over 500,000 women feel fine before being diagnosed with breast cancer. Over 40,000 of these women die in the US alone every year. Many women have gone to their doctor saying, “This can’t be happening to me - I feel fine!”

· For 63% of the women with heart disease, and 50% of the men, a fatal heart attack is their first symptom.

· For the last 2 years, the #1 cause of death in people under age 30 in the U.S. has been cancer.

· 50 years ago, heart disease & cancer were not in the top 20 causes of death in any age group.

· 50 years ago, there were no pediatric oncologists (children’s cancer specialists) because there was no need.

· Cancer ranked as the #8 killer in 1985, and is #2 now.

· The World Health Organization (WHO) states that the world’s cancer rate is predicted to increase by 50% by the year 2020.

You may be telling yourself there is NOTHING you can do about all of these “recent” changes in our health over the last 20-50 years. I know that bad news can overwhelm us and make us feel like we have no healthy choices and don’t know how to recognize good options anyway.

NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH.

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Source: The 10 Deadly Health Myths of the 21st Century