Pick up any magazine, watch any commercial, or surf the Internet for a little while and you will find that we are bombarded with advertisements for procedures, medicines, and supplements to fix ourselves. We need weight loss supplements to get rid of pounds of fat that have gathered from over the years.

They recommend surgical procedures to tuck tummies or get rid of wrinkles. There are medicines and creams to reverse the signs of premature aging brought on by poor habits like smoking.

All of these are nice to have around, but are expensive and time consuming. Why use these products to correct years of poor health choices instead of making better ones now?

Many of the habits we pick up when we are young have grave consequences when we get older. For example, smoking may look “cool” as a young adult, but it becomes an addiction that ages the skin and eventually threatens multiple types of cancer. Read the rest of this entry »