HEALTH COACH

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EARTH HEALTH = HUMAN HEALTH

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The connection between the urban world of human society, and the natural world, since the industrial revolution, has been remote and widening.   
The paradox is that there has never been a time when more people are out-of-touch with the natural world, then there is now.   
We are now so numerous; so powerful; so all-pervasive, the mechanisms we have for destruction are so wholesale, we can actually exterminate entire ecosystems without even noticing it.  
Sir David Attenborough, Naturalist


The theme of the 21st century technological age is the man-made versus the natural and the born. As we move farther away from the natural world, into a world designed by synthetic biology and technology, our modern lifestyle choices are less and less health-promoting. 

 This increases the need for health education. 

 Knowledge and understanding of earth and human health would be the best place to start, to help ourselves. Without knowledge and understanding it is difficult to value earth and physiological health. Opinion and belief are of little use when it comes to taking care of the environment and our health.



Earth and Health Literacy
We are not born with the knowledge of the natural world or of human health. That education is not available presently to individuals, or for health and medical professionals in Canada. We are health illiterate because there is no definitive, coherent language for us to use to communicate with each other about health; to educate ourselves; nor does a comprehensive system exist for the evaluation of health, and for practical application.

 If Canada included health in its' education system, it would be the first country in the history of human civilization, and on the planet, to do so. 

 Health education must include the knowledge and tools necessary for:
  • healthy physiological function
  • the maintenance of health
  • physical structural integrity
  • healthy habit formation
The necessary education, and practical application of health are supplied by the 13 BASIC HEALTH HABITS. 
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Physiological Health
The human body is an ecosystem of complementary, co-dependent, and cooperative systems, functioning together to maintain health, and designed to heal itself. Regarding our personal health care, our primary behaviour should involve the support of these natural functions with the practise of the 13 Basic Health Habits. 

 Neglect of Basic Health Habits leads to physical deterioration, malfunction, a cascade effect of health complications, and finally, to disease. Physiological health relates only to an intact, fully functional, flesh and blood body. Our behaviour has now impacted the human genome. 



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Earth Health
A healthy environment is essential for human physiological health. There is a parallel story about our health and the environment. 

Canada ranks 24th out of 25 developed countries for environmental health and sustainability.
A 2010 study: The Maple Leaf in The OECD, conducted by Simon Fraser University, rated the environmental record of the 25 developed countries belonging to the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), using 28 environmental indicators. 

Canada is Ground Zero For Health
According to the World Health Organization's 2011 Report on Disease in Canada, Canadians are leading the worldwide epidemic of chronic disease, and in 2013, 29.3 billion dollars was spent on prescription drugs; 36% of Canadians take two or more prescription drugs, among the highest of the 11 other OECD countries surveyed. 

 I am alarmed by what I see here in Canada. I identify the unhealthy western lifestyle as the largest and most dangerous health experiment in human history - and I would say that we are clearly getting the results of this experiment. If we want to continue on this unhealthy course, we will need to develop increasingly complex medical, pharmaceutical, genetic, and technological treatments.


 Health is the missing consideration. If health has an equal place alongside critical care and cure, profit and progress; better choices are made, and the benefits are more comprehensive and sustainable. 

HEALTH COACH proposes that a healthy environment and healthy citizens are the most profitable choice individually, and collectively. 
As cities and, in some cases, entire nations weather the pandemic under lockdown, Earth-observing satellites have detected a significant decrease in the concentration of a common air pollutant, nitrogen dioxide, which enters the atmosphere through emissions from cars, trucks, buses, and power plants. The drop, observed in China and Europe, coincided with stringent social-distancing measures on the ground. Air pollution can seriously damage human health, and the World Health Organization estimates that conditions stemming from exposure to ambient pollution—including stroke, heart disease, and respiratory illnesses—kill about 4.2 million people a year. 
The cleaner air could lead to a brief respite in parts of the world with severe air pollution even as they battle the coronavirus. According to an analysis by Marshall Burke, a professor in Stanford’s Earth-system science department, a pandemic-related reduction in particulate matter in the atmosphere—the deadliest form of air pollution—likely saved the lives of 4,000 young children and 73,000 elderly adults in China over two months this year. 
Noise pollution can (also) negatively affect our health, contributing to stress-related ailments, high blood pressure, sleep disruption, and other problems. Four Ways the Coronavirus is Changing the Planet

 

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 Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens 
can change the world. 
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. 
Margaret Mead



  
Practical Tips 
for EARTH HEALTH
  • Go outside.
  • THE ONE NATURE CHALLENGE: The David Suzuki Foundation challenges you to spend 30 minutes a day in nature for 30 days to kick-start a nature habit that lasts all year-round.
  • Check this out: Breathing Earth This real-time simulation displays the CO2 emissions of every country in the world, as well as their birth and death rates.
  • Remember and honour the wild places in nature where you used to play.
  • Man's heart away from nature becomes hard. Chief Standing Bear
  • Ocean Keepers
      • Cognitive Computing: Digital technology has the ability to connect us to the environment in an intimate way, and to inform and predict the health of the earth; to solve the disparity between the limitations of our intelligence and our ability to create a sustainable future on the planet. 
      • Build bridges.
      • Reduce and eliminate household and personal care product chemicals. Toxipedia 





       Nature, 
      to be commanded, 
      must be obeyed.      
      Francis Bacon



      I am grateful for this most amazing day, 
      for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, 
      and for the blue dream of sky 
      and for everything which is natural, 
      which is infinite, 
      which is yes.     
      E.E. Cummings




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      Green Action Centre

         

      The woods were made for the hunters of dreams,
      The brooks for the fishers of song;
      To the hunters who hunt for the gunless game, 
      The streams and the woods belong. 
      Sam Walter Foss
      DO YOU KNOW?

      Red Bay Basque Whaling Station, Labrador, Newfoundland: 
      Canadas' 17th UNESCO World Heritage Site



      Posted by Valerie Tonner RMT, RMTSMB at 11.11.21
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