Not All Is Wellness

The parameter of the wellness depends on the extent of goodness feeling in a person. The factor that plays a key role in wellness is the exercise and eating the right stuff. Whenever, there is a lack of either exercise or good food the feeling of wellness turns into sickness.

To some extent we all know or have heard about the CICO dictum (Calories In, Calories Out), But in reality how many people follow it. For example you may feel completely detestable upon consuming a known toxic substance, where as the impact of having a dozen of Krispy Kreme donuts in a day may affect you at a much later stage and when this happens people tend to blame it on something else!

This attitude of humans account for the explanation why the fattening of America took several generations, what if experts have found it to be an epidemic in the last few years. Though, for decades the agencies concerned with the health of nations such as the United Nations have been constantly warning for the growing underbelly of developed, and then the developing nations. Equal was the concern of the World Health Organization (WHO) about the growing malnutrition in underdeveloped countries. Its concern was reflected in a January 2005 report in which WHO emphasized: one billion people - one sixth of the worlds population - live in extreme poverty, lacking the safe water, proper nutrition, basic health care and social services needed to survive. Almost 11 million children die each year, six million of them under five from preventable diseases.

In a January 2005 report, WHO emphasized that one billion people--one sixth of the worlds population - live in extreme poverty, lacking the safe water, proper nutrition, basic health care and social services needed to survive. Almost 11 million children die each year, six million of them under five from preventable diseases."

In January 18, 2005, WHO highlighted health in its year 2015 development blueprint (aka the Millennium Project). It likewise underscored the need for the world to "immediately and massively increase the investment in health programs." As if talking to America, the recent WHO report admonished that proven solutions are likely to turn the tide towards achieving health goals. It also added: We have the means to achieve those goals. We have the technology. What we need are the resources and the political will. We cannot wait any longer to do what we have promised to achieve in the coming decade."

It is interesting to note that such notice of the world body rings a bell in the solutions recommended by both the American Institute of Food Technologists and the American Institute of Medicine towards combating the obesity epidemic in North America. Both are intervening to change its infrastructure policies towards food distribution and production. One speedy method is that U.S. can balance its subsidies towards farm products in a way that vegetables, fruits, and whole-wheat production are given their due importance in the food chain.

This will have the powerful impact of making these staples more affordable for the working masses. The government can also mandate schools to bring back Physical Education in the curriculum, ensure that bike routes and parks are properly integrated into housing plans, and that national advertising focus on healthy eating instead of fad snacking.

Hard to swallow but true that today about 20 percent of Americans are both malnourished and obese. Nationwide some 33 million Americans are affected by food insecurity, meaning lack of regular access to healthy foods, a large contributor to malnutrition in poor communities. These statistics indicate that to attain wellness for at least 33 million Americans remain a dream. This fact seems more harrowing when we know that the key to wellness is adequate exercise and proper nutrition. So, this example aptly shows that knowing does not necessarily mean doing. Despite so many advertisements repetitively showing Abs and Carbs on American television during sitcoms and soap operas, so many people are unwell. Or can we say that there is some stubborn virus that is immune even to the Baywatch culture?