{"id":692303,"date":"2010-03-16T03:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T07:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/03\/16\/is-good-health-merely-the-absence-of-disease-no\/"},"modified":"2010-03-16T03:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T07:45:00","slug":"is-good-health-merely-the-absence-of-disease-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/692303","title":{"rendered":"Is Good Health Merely the Absence of Disease? No!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/advice\/\" rel=\"tag\">Advice<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/happiness\/\" rel=\"tag\">Happiness<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/health\/\" rel=\"tag\">Health<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/healthy-eating\/\" rel=\"tag\">Healthy Eating<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/how-to-be-happy\/\" rel=\"tag\">How to Be Happy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"4\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.thatsfit.ca\/media\/2010\/03\/healthy-294.jpg?w=780\" alt=\"\" \/>When we visit the doctor, ninety percent of the time it&#8217;s because we need someone to take a look at our aches and pains, fatigue, lingering cold symptoms and so on. It&#8217;s enough to get one wondering if our definition of health is merely the absence of these symptoms. As a nutritionist, I, of course, spend a lot of time helping people live up to their own ideas of what healthy means to them and in light of March being <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.dietitians.ca\/public\/content\/eat_well_live_well\/english\/nutritionmonth\/index.asp\">National Nutrition Mont<\/a>h, I thought I&#8217;d share with you my idea of optimum health. <\/p>\n<p>I was pleasantly surprised to learn how the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/about\/definition\/en\/print.html\">World Health Organization (WHO),<\/a> defined &#8220;health&#8221; in 1948 (they have never felt the need to update this, either): &#8220;A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/03\/16\/is-good-health-merely-the-absence-of-disease-no\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>Is Good Health Merely the Absence of Disease? No!<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/03\/16\/is-good-health-merely-the-absence-of-disease-no\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent link to this entry\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/forward\/19384060\/\" title=\"Send this entry to a friend via email\">Email this<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/03\/16\/is-good-health-merely-the-absence-of-disease-no\/#comments\" title=\"View reader comments on this entry\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: Advice, Happiness, Health, Healthy Eating, How to Be Happy When we visit the doctor, ninety percent of the time it&#8217;s because we need someone to take a look at our aches and pains, fatigue, lingering cold symptoms and so on. It&#8217;s enough to get one wondering if our definition of health is merely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2U6b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}