What is health? Health and wellness are not the same. Health is the absence of illness or disease, but Wellness is the optimization of all aspects of your life; your social, emotional, spiritual, environmental, occupational, intellectual, and physical wellbeing. To achieve optimal wellness, preventing illness and maintaining health without illness is key.

What exactly is prevention? Prevention describes actions that you can personally take on a daily basis to create wellness. So, what actions can you take to achieve wellness and ultimately prevent disease? There are so many things that you can do including exercise, dietary changes, and other lifestyle changes. Many people believe that they can’t change what’s going to happen to their health because it’s hereditary, handed down to them from their parents. Honestly, most often what’s handed down is eating habits,, exercise habits, or stress habits. To achieve wellness you have to change dietary habits; what’s on the end of your fork! Prevention for you is different than prevention for your parents, siblings, or neighbors!