Health and Fitness

How do you judge your wellness? Do you adopt a ‘feel’ approach? I feel well, therefore I am well. I guess it would surprise you then to learn that many people that feel well, and look well, have life terminating diseases like cancer already ravaging their bodies. And many do not even know it.

Now I am not into scaremongering, but I am into being real. With such fast paced lifestyles, it is not uncommon to feel tired or a little run down. We accept this as part of daily life. It is difficult therefore to use feeling as a defining signal as to the state of our health. So how can we judge our wellness?

The first part of measuring wellness is defining a benchmark – that defining envelope that defines that one person is well, where another is not. So accepting that feeling well is not an adequate benchmark, we…