WELLNESS: Be the best you can be

[February 21, 2017]  LINCOLN - Wellness is all about you being the best you can be. It is proactively managing your health thru prevention and intercession: keeping your body strong through good nutrition, exercise, remediating bad habits, training, rest, and setting good expectations and goals. A strong body and mind resists disease better, heals faster, works harder, and seems to enjoy life much more. Wellness is an important ingredient in people’s lives.

But wellness is not a solitary pursuit. It is a community activity. It requires individuals working together with the many healthcare providers in our community to achieve a richer, fuller life. All the healthcare and protection agencies and businesses pull together to afford individuals the opportunity to have wellness, whether from the aspect of prevention or the aspect of treatment, the community is there for you.

Your physician is in the business of assessment, directing, making and keeping you well. The local hospital provides services and programs to increase your stamina, heal your body, and make you better. Emergency responders are there at your call to protect you, deliver you, and revive you when you are down and out. And so many other participating businesses and agencies provide opportunities to escape drug addiction, escape addiction to tobacco, escape addiction to alcohol, exercise to have a fit body, engage intellectually to have a fit mind, to name a few.

Nutritionists provide guidance for a rounded diet, whether you are on your target weight, need to lose or need to gain. Pharmacies look after your health and dispense life saving and life enhancing drugs which help you to avoid life-degrading and painful symptoms, and control disease. Police and firemen are there in the community to help protect and save your life and health when it is threatened. And there are many more examples of how the community helps protect, direct and maintain your wellness.

This issue of Wellness magazine tells a few of those stories, stories of programs, and struggles and successes and our community. It also tells the story of the annual Wellness Expo put on by Healthy Community Partnership and the Lincoln Park District, two important partners in helping people maintain their wellness.
 
 We hope you find direction and value in the articles in this edition.
 
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