"The Pleasure Principle"

Def. The motivation to seek the pleasurable (avoiding unpleasant things)

*part of human nature, but must be moderated by other factors to make a balanced person.

Is there a relationship between money & happiness?

Overwhelming number of choices (range from unimportant to crucial).

-Difficulty making decisions

-Self-doubt

-Regret

-Anxiety

-Chronic stress

True or False:

"Satisfice" less and "maximize" more

FALSE.

"Satisfice" more & "maximize" less

*read Tyranny of Choice for definitions of these words 

1. They lack the knowledge of what matters

2. Their own feelings, attitudes, or pre-conceptions prevent them from taking action.

What is Dr. Shaffrath's definition of 

Health?

Def. a lifelong process of developing balanced interconnections between our physical, emotional and spiritual selves, as well as connecting who we are with, what we do, and who we spend our lives with.

"From outside the body" 

(accidents, disease, mayhem)

"Internal" sources of mortality.

(chronic diseases, often related to long-standing lifestyle)

What does it mean to

"Cultivate Balance" ?

Prideful

ex. the thin

Cultivate Balance 

Recognize our Limited Awareness (hubris)

subclinical disease

developing greater awareness

(inner world &

outer world) 

Having Hubris. Thinking you are the center of the universe.

Dictionary definition: Holding the view that the ego is the center, object, and norm of all experience.

-Seat belts (& airbags)

-Helmets

-Avoid violence

-Great caution w/ mind-altering agents

-Adventuring wisely

-All of the factors from "living to next year"

-safe sex

-smoking cessation

-self-exams for skin & reproductive cancers

-Blood pressure measurements

-Cholesterol

-"living til next year" + "living to age 40" factors

-exercise and physical activity

-balanced diet of fresh foods

-maintain body weight

-develop muscle & skeletal mass

-routine medical care (unique benefits)

When adventures go awry... often due to:

-underestimating the degree of risk for certain activities, or

-overestimating one's invulnerability to death/destruction (hubris)

Who is Aaron Ralston?

A good example of a person having hubris.

A 27 year old "canyoneer" who cut off his arm when a boulder fell on him. He did not tell anyone of his hiking plans, no one knew he was missing.

Functional abilities or anatomic reserves

(the age you look, or act, like)

-Cardiovascular Dz (Hypertension, Atherosclerosis) (42% of death is because of this. #1 killer in this country)

-Obesity (over-consuming calories)

-Diabetes (chronically elevated blood sugar)

-Osteoporosis (bone loss. bone-building lasts 'til 30 years old)

-Sarcopenia (sacros: flesh, -penia: too little→ too little flesh)

-Senility (Age-Associated dementia. Organizes mind, motion, brain)

-(some cancers: colon, ?prostate, ?breast)

"Hypo": below

"Kinetic": movement 

Def. Diseases of too little movement

Part of the Top 6 causes of death

Sub-clinical: no one can measure/detect it

Prodromes: before the main event

Ex. Certain Heart attacks; some people may never know they're in risk of one until they get it.

Far Easier to Prevent than to Reverse.

Hypokinetic disease:

What triggers it?

Genetics may "load the gun" but it is the

environment which "pulls the trigger"

Just because everyone in your family has a disease (ex. diabetes) YOU can still prevent it completely or hold it off for awhile

High intro-vascular fluid pressure: the pressure in the arteries are elevated.

Cleros- hardening

athero-porridge

Def. When people talk about heart attacks and their arteries close up. Fat builds up in the artery wall. It is a pediatric disease that isn't discovered 'til late life. It is reversible in its early stages. 

These are "invisible" factors which we CANNOT FEEL that damage the "biological teflon" lining our arteries:

-Smoking

-High blood pressure

-high blood glucose (diabetes)

-high blood fats (cholesterol)

-lack of physical activity

#1 Cause of death

1/4 people