The Doctors 5-Minute Health Fixes

THE DOCTORS 5 MINUTE HEALTH FIXES

Introduction

The Doctors Are On Call—For You

What is the one truly irreplaceable resource? Time.

We all want more time:

• more time to ourselves

• more time to sleep

• more time to develop our talents

• more time to travel, to experience new things

• more time with our spouses or significant others

• more time with our kids or grandkids

• more time to enjoy our lives

With an eye toward saving time, we’ve created machines to do our work for us. Think of all the time-saving machines we’ve developed over the past 100 years.
Instead of washing our clothes by hand, wringing them out, hanging them up on the line, taking them down from the line, ironing them with an iron heated over a fire (which was built by hand), what do we do?

We put our clothes into a box and press a button. Then we put them into another box and press another button. (Can’t get around that folding, though.)
And think about our food. Instead of tilling the soil and growing our food, picking out the weeds every day, chasing down and slaughtering our dinner, plucking feathers, gutting deer, climbing trees or crawling through vines, chopping and slicing and canning, we do this:
We toss a package into a box, close the door, and press a button.
For most of us, all of this time “saved” is not translating into time spent doing things that
improve our lives. With the time we save by nuking a frozen dinner or e-mailing a colleague who is 20 feet away, we’re more likely to . . . well, eat junk food and sit on our butts.

And as we squander that time, we’re also squandering our health. In the process of using more of these time-saving measures to save ourselves effort, we’ve been robbing our bodies of the exercise they used to get and the whole, fresh foods that we used to nourish them with. In a way, all those time-saving tools might actually be stealing time from us—because we may be dying sooner.
Well, no more! We’re here to show you how you can create time. How you may be able to add 2, 4, 10, 20 years to your life—good years, active years. Fun years.
And you’re going to do it starting today. Starting right now. Because we’re going to show you something amazing: You only really need 5 minutes to make a change that lasts a lifetime.

We’re Not only Doctors, We Play Them on TV

Every weekday since September 2008, we’ve come into homes all over America to help you make sense of the conflicting medical information that comes at you from so many sources. We debate each other and share our thoughts about the biggest health headlines, the most controversial new procedures, and the embarrassing questions that people are scared to ask their own doctors. We take that information and turn it into positive solutions that impact viewers’ lives.
If you’ve seen the show, you know we serve up our health information with a little bit of sass and a lot of science. Hey, we’re not only doctors, we’re also guinea pigs.

From THE DOCTOR’S 5-MINUTE HEALTH FIXES by The Doctors with Mariska van Aalst
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