jan/Feb, 2020 | The HealTH
OPINION
year, nor does eating junk food again after only avoiding it for a
month or two.
Resolve is when you know you have to change, and nothing can
make you stop that change. Resolve is when you know you have
to do what needs to be done to change. If you need to lose weight,
lose those weight. If you want to stop procrastinating, start doing
things now.
Th ere is no one to stop you but yourself. Find resolve in fulfi lling
your new year resolution, even if its a minor one. My resolution is
to be a healthier human being. Only time will tell if I actually have
resolve to fulfi l it.
As the editor for the last time here at Th e Health, I wish everyone
a very happy new year! May all of our resolutions be fulfi lled.
health vision2020:
prevention
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t’s the new decade – the long awaited 2020.
Vision 2020, Tun Mahathir’s mantra for a
developed Malaysian nation. We are almost
there but it is still a work in progress.
The same can be said for my 2020 new year
resolution — a work in progress to continue to
sustain my physical and mental health to reach the ripe
old age of 90, now that the Tun himself has proven that
it is not impossible.
Editor
Norman Hussaini
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statistics
show that the
number of
people who
die of old age
the last few
years have
decreased
signifi cantly,
while death
due to non-
communicable
diseases like
diabetes,
heart attack,
stroke and
cancer have
become
the leading
causes."
Preventing the cause, not fixing the symptoms
Over the years, a number of my own classmates and
friends very much junior to me have left this earth
mainly due to health reasons. statistics show that the
number of people who die of old age the last few years
have decreased significantly, while death due to non-
communicable diseases like diabetes, heart attack,
stroke and cancer have become the leading causes.
Most of us continue to focus on curing the symp-
toms, and not on preventing the root cause.
Pills and medication are used as quick solutions to
health problems as prevention continues to be down
played and ignored.
Health education must start in our schools from
primary to secondary and into tertiary. Let our chil-
dren understand how to become healthier and fitter
citizens for the future, and hopefully, earn our first
Olympic gold.
nutrition as the foundation
Proper nutrition education and practice must also be
included in the school curriculum besides providing
more time for physical exercise. The reform agenda of
our education system must also be about our student’s
health education .
The focus on ‘No smoking’ campaign took one whole
year to enforce when it should been be done at the start
of the campaign itself in January last year.
On the first day of enforcement on Jan 1, thou-
sands were fined. Apparently they could not care
less about civic consciousness or their own health. If
implemented a year ago, imagine how much fines could
have been collected.
The shock treatment always works (as many who
have gone through a heart attack realised too late),
and the public must be made to realise that the govern-
ment and most of us are serious about smoking and
health issues.
Now it’s time for the health and education minis-
tries to look at integrated programs to enhance ours
and our children’s health knowledge, awareness and
prevention programs.
Finding the cause
Remember, the root cause of all diseases is polluted
blood leading to poor blood circulation. This is mainly
caused by the state of our environment which is experi-
encing serious reduction in oxygen content compared
to fifty years ago, poor nutrition, stress, lack of sleep
and lack of exercise.
Research and technology such as electron therapy
have helped change and improve our health sustaining
and disease prevention programs.
In our quest for a better life, it is time we stop sacri-
ficing our health for the sake of finding wealth during
our younger days which ultimately ends in sacrificing
our wealth for the sake of our health during our old
age.
As the cost of healthcare increases, many will soon
be deprived of proper health care in their old age.
so we need to focus on prevention and that should
be the focus of the health and education ministry in
the new decade . — The Health
ADI SATRIA, a veteran in marketing communications
went through a stressful career path in his early days until
he discovered the benefits of exercise and yoga was one of
them. He wished that Corporate Yoga was available during
his career as a director in a major media company.