When you complete the Health, Fitness and Wellbeing Profile you will be making an assessment of the functioning of a wide range of body systems.

In a nutshell the body is an ecosystem; what happens in one part may well affect another.

The most well known example of this is the relationship between the mind and the rest of the body systems. When you get stressed out of your brain your blood pressure may go up, you could get rashes, irritable bowel, headaches, tired ...

It works the other way round too; if you don't keep yourself fit, eat in a way that nourishes the cells of your body, meditate ... you can feel dreadful - you can even get depressed.

The epidemic of mind dysfunction is only mirroring the epidemic of dysfunction in all other body systems.

The moral of the story is 'Keep yourself fit and healthy and the body systems will look after themselves.'

 

The Health, Fitness and Wellbeing Profile is based on the premise that the body doesn't lie. If you ask someone 'How'ya going?' they'll usually say something like 'Not bad.' (Can you think of too more negative words to string together than 'not' and 'bad'?)

 

However despite feeling 'Not bad', the body systems are crying out in pain - headaches, tiredness, obesity, crook guts, itchy backside, high blood pressure ... The score on the Mind and Body Profile is soaring through the roof.

 

What the assessment doesn’t do is ask questions like

      ‘rate how well your liver is functioning.’

      ‘rate how well your heart is functioning’

 

(Most people wouldn’t have a clue.  In fact they think that things are ticking over nicely, until they start to catalogue the more commonly expressed symptoms of body symptom dysfunction. They say that an organ or system has to be able 70% dysfunctional before you'll notice something's wrong.)

 

When you look at your health there could be a lot of things going wrong, though you haven't yet come down with a something serious enough to lay you up for a few months.

 

The Health, Fitness and Wellbeing Profile will provide you with an indication of creeping dysfunction. When you look at your score you'll be able to gauge whether some systems are already at risk. You'll be able to take stock and do something about it before it gets so bad that you're on some sort of life-support.

 

The popular life supports in our culture are junk pharmaceuticals which mask the symptom without fixing the problem.

 

There are degrees of dysfunction where it is hard to pin point exactly what’s going wrong. Usually when that happens a physician will most likely diagnose your complaint as a 'syndrome'.

 

Of course the tough part is working out exactly what’s wrong.

 

Because of the inter-relatedness of the dysfunction of many body systems contributing to the one symptom it's often difficult to track down the causes of the complaint that finally has someone rushing off to the surgery.

 

Generally speaking though, when something's wrong in the foreground, what's lurking in the background is low levels of health and fitness.

 

Get yourself into exceptionally good shape and most of the body system dysfunctions will disappear; like magic!

 

For instance, if you get lots of headaches you’ll need to ask yourself ‘what is the cause of my headaches?’ The causes are probably legion, as are the number of body systems involved and the degree to which a range of body systems are dysfunctional.

 

Same thing if you feel tired, have a crook guts or high blood pressure.

 

Whilst some of the questions in the profile may appear to be more specific than others, you can be pretty certain that when rating how you feel on any one question you’re making an assessment about a range of body systems and their degrees of function.

 

The best way to treat the symptoms is by using the Lifestyle Prescription.

 

Print out the profile below then circle the numbers appropriate to the degree to which you experience the symptoms listed in the 30 questions below. If you never get them, score ‘0’. If you get them a lot, score high. A good score is a low score. A poor score is a high score.

 

For instance if you get a headache every day score ‘10’.

 

Some of the questions have had to be posed in the negative. So, for instance if you don't have a low level of fitness (item 13) score '0'. On the other hand, if your fitness level is low, score higher. Similarly with blood pressure (item 17). If it's not elevated, score '0'. If it is elevated, score higher. If you're on medication score 10. And similarly with sadness and depression (item 26). If you're not sad and/or depressed score '0'. If you are sad and/or depressed score higher. Score '10' if you're on medication. The rule is; a good score, the score of a fit and healthy person is '0' or close to it.

 

When you've completed the profile and added up your score, click here to find out what the score of a normal fit and healthy person is. If you got a high score, click through to the Complete Fitness Program in our Fit and Healthy Online website and start doing the things that fit and healthy people do to keep themselves fit and healthy.

 

		Symptom	None		Not much			A fair bit			A lot
	1.	Headaches	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	2.	Migraines	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	3.	Lack of energy and vitality	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	4.	Candida - jock itch, thrush, tinea ...	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	5.	Poor sleep. If on tablets score 10	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	6.	Snoring &/or sleep apnoea.	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	7.	Crook back, sore shoulders RSI ...	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	8.	Frequent colds, flu, sinus	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	9.	Unsettled stomach, reflux	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	10.	Irritable bowel, constipation, trots ...	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	11.	Overweight - 1 point for every 2Kg	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	12.	Asthma	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	13.	Low level of aerobic fitness	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	14.	Chest pain, palpitations	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	15.	Rashes, itchiness, psoriasis, zits	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	16.	Mouth ulcers, cold sores	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	17.	Elevated blood pressure. (On medication score 10)	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	18.	Reduced libido	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	19.	Shakes, nervous ticks, mannerisms	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	20.	Grinding teeth	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	21.	Alcoholic drinks per day (2 pts/drink)	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	22.	Smoking. (1 pt/cigarette/day)	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	23.	Caffeine (1 pt/cup per day)	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	24.	Anxious about life in general	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	25.	Insecure/apprehensive about the future	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	26.	Sad or depressed (On medication, score 10)	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	27.	In wrong job for now	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	28.	Under-appreciated at work	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	29.	Under-appreciated at home	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	30.	Unhappy with family and romantic life	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10

 

 

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