What is Health?

That is the million dollar answer isn't it. For most people health is not having any kind of pain. Now, is that really true? Part of the time it is. When you are not hurting you fill great and dandy, you do not seem to notice you have a body until it signal some kind of alarm in the form of pain. The truth of the matter is that whether I like it or not, most people think this way. The real truth is that pain is a very poor parameter to determine if a person is healthy or sick. A few example we all know or have known someone that had this happen to them. Did not have any pain went for a regular check up and found I was on the edge of a heart attack, or the doctors found cancer, or a herniated disc... and the list can go on. Something all this people had in common, none of them felt unhealthy but they were really sick. So can we be in control of our health? According to the parameter of pain, no one can, but hang on there is hope. The World Health Organization defines a person healthy as someone with an optimal social, physical and emotional wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease. Which means in lay terms that if we take responsibility for all the areas of our lives, then we can certainly be healthy.