Because of unexpected death of love ones and friends, I conclude that a regular yearly health check-up is a must.  Most adults reason out that they don’t need a doctor’s care because they don’t feel anything bad inside them.  They don’t realize that most serious illness or ailments won’t let you feel anything wrong  at an early stage but later you will realized you have it when it is already abit worst or the situation is already serious.

Somehow I wish that all types of cancer, HIV,  DB, MI’s get to us like a cold attack so that at the moment we feel we are being attacked we can just popped up a week regime of antibiotics and drink tons of water and poof….after 1 week, it’s gone!

It can’t be denied that we are now living in a world of instant foods.  Fast foods and quick food stalls sprouted all over the world like you are growing a plant or vegtable in your garden.  The tube hypnotized the mind of our children by showing them that they the best and yummy foods are the processed foods.  Many loved the happy chicken and the number is growing each day.  Breakfast Mc Do, lunch at Jollibee, dinner at KFC. wow!  I would be hypocrite if i would say i don’t love this fried chicken in many fast foods — but if i think of my health outcome — I always have the second thoughts.   But TV promoted it as malusog (healthy).  In Philippine tv advertisment about noodles that when kids ate it, they will be honor students in school.  How could it be?  When too much MSG on the food will cause dullness in a person. I wonder if the owner of that company producing the noodles believed how they promote it. To each of us, especially moms, or anyone self conscious out there, would you still believe that these type of foods are the healthy giving foods when you see a 9 to 10 year old kids already writhing in pain in bed because they are receiving dialysis?  if that age is too young and impossible, is 15 and 19 too old and enough to die?

Another Philippine TV advertisement that becomes famous lately is the promotion of eating gulay (vegetables) when they said makulay ang buhay sa sinabawang gulay (life is colorful with a bowl of vegetable soup).  I tried to watched it one daywith dimple and asked her, do you really believe that that gulay they are eating is good for you and if you eat it 3 times a day you will be healthy?  She replied, yes of course.  I then told her, that is not true.   A real vegetable soup is one that is freshly cooked and with no condiments that will harm the system of the child.  The required serving of vegetables a day for one to be healthy is 3 cups of 3 kinds of veg. Andthe tv just showed only less than 10 pcs of green leafy thing swimming in the soup.  The taste of MSG can be clearly tasted and smelled but the cut vegetables is not much.

What parents eat, kids eat.  So whatever happen to our kids, healthwise, we parents, are the only one responsible to answer doctor’s inquiries on how we fed our children.

Total change of lifestyle, exercise and regular visit to the doctor will help us prevent serious illness in the future and live a long and happy healthy life.