Just A Thought

Having a conversation with the wife yesterday about health and people's approaches to it.
It's a crazy world today. Too much information, much of it conflicting. You can spend 23.5 hours a day reading food labels. Trying to reduce your intake of this, eliminate your intake of that, increase your intake of this, moderate your intake of that.
There are 10,000 theories on how to attain health, maintain health, preserve and protect health. What kind of exercises to do, how often and for how long. Changes from year to year. The definition of good foods versus bad foods changes too.
Doctors have general ideas of how to be healthy but when you come right down to it they don't understand the most important thing: how the human body works, how it interrelates to diet, exercise and lifestyle.
They can recommend a diet that supposedly reduces your chances of getting cancer (which changes continually) but they can't cure cancer. Same thing with heart disease and other physical trials and tribulations.
A guy can run five miles a day and eat whatever healthy diet is the current craze, and die at the age of 26. A guy can drink a bottle of vodka every day and smoke two packs of cigarettes a day and live to be 83. (I believe the latter situation exists more than the medical world would care to admit).
And our highly educated, overcharging doctors cannot tell you why this is.
Maybe that's where the God thing comes in. The spiritual thing, the essence of being a human. That gap between clinical knowledge and true understanding might be the sign that we can never truly comprehend life. Maybe we are not supposed to.
I'm just throwing it out there. You can chew on that for a while if you are so inclined, although I know it's a beautiful Sunday and you might prefer to turn your face to the sun and hope for three in a row for The Sox at Fenway.
I wouldn't blame you.
Ciao