Is civilization dangerous to our health? Most likely. Humanity has pursued salubrity throughout history…
…Morally speaking, however, the pursuit of good health can do more than merely ease the conscience pangs of vacationing pleasure lovers. It can fill deep and genuine spiritual needs. It calls for dedication, for self-discipline and self-denial, and it calls for these on a daily basis, because our bodies are always with us and always available for our concern.
—If you watch enough episodes of American Pickers, chances are you’ll see them come across one of the classic 1960s vibrating belts that became the fitness fad of the decade. A huge machine with a big, bulky strap that was to be worn around the waist was designed to jiggle the living crap out of you until all your belly fat melted away. The gritty black-and-white pictures from the decade of women lined up in day spas and health clubs are absolutely adorable, but they don’t erase the fact that these vibrating belts didn’t work.—click image for source…
It can provide a constructive purpose for otherwise purposeless lives, a structure and a regimen for perilously loose and flaccid ones. It is not simply because they are affluent that the leisure classes through history have so often joined the ranks of the health seekers. In a secular age, too, the pursuit of good health can provide solace for those who have spurned the world or lost out in the pursuit of its prizes. That is one reason why social and political rebels are so often found in the ranks of the health seekers, joining, as it were, their leisure-class enemies.
—The use of triatomic ozone (O3) in medicine, referred to as ozone therapy, is nothing new. The process actually dates back to 1856 when ozone was first used to sterilize surgical equipment. Fast forward to the present and it’s still being used extensively in sterilization, extending now to food and water. Beyond sterilization, the bizarre act of infusing the blood or body cavities with ozone has been met with contentious debate, particularly since doing so can pose major health risks.
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Obviously, the pursuit of good health by the healthy has its absurd and humorous side, but it is not because of its absurdities that it plays its role in the human comedy: the pursuit of good health is a mirror reflecting from an eccentric angle the complications and perplexities of civilized life.
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Joe Namath (left) and Doug Sanders (center) with Jackie Gleason at the 1969 National Airlines Open.—click image for source…
Hippocrates:Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health. …
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