Healthcare or Sickcare?

So which do you choose? Maybe you don’t really know what the difference is. Most people don’t really give it a second thought. They get sick, they go to the doctor. Their children are sick, they take them to the doctor.

I even recall a school or work requiring a doctor’s note in order to return to work once you are out sick. So think about it for a minute. Do you rely on your doctor (healthcare) for your health? That would make sense; right? I mean, the word “health” is even part of the word, healthcare. But is it really health? No, not really.

If you give it some thought, other than going for a physical or routine screening procedures for prevention, which is actually called preventative medicine, you go to the doctor when you’re sick, as in sickcare! It has nothing to do with health, other than trying to return back to it.

What is preventative medicine or care anyway, now that I brought that up. Well, it’s care to prevent you from becoming sick, not healthy, so that you won’t need sickcare, not healthcare! Yes, this is getting a little complicated, if it’s the first time you’ve thought about it, but definitely food for thought, which brings up my next point… food!

As the saying goes, “You are what you eat.” I’ll talk more on that later.

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine by thy food.” ~Hippocrates