The body is a wondrous machine and is designed to take massive abuse before it fails.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t always give clear signs of abuse until it’s too late. So many people believe heart disease, arthritis, diabetes, and obesity are just part of the natural aging process. However, its our lack of exercise and terrible diet, which accelerates our aging and causes us to fall ill before our time.
Despite progress we always have those among us who believe the “old fashioned” ways or products are better. It has to be said that in some instances they are correct. Sadly, with each passing generation, some of this old fashioned wisdom disappears.
Progress is so contemporary and so closely a part of our daily lives that we sometimes fail to recognize that we, ourselves, may fail to keep up with what is happening. Things that we would have considered very modern because we witnessed their creation only a few years ago may already be “old fashioned” to high school students.
In the medical world, treatment that might have been popular for a disease in 1986 may be completely outmoded in 2006. Even medical...