We are all more conscious of our health these days, probably because fewer of us work strenuously physically any more, our diet of junk food has turned us into blobs and the health care industry is constantly warning us how unhealthy we are in order to sell us more treatments. Whatever the reasons, most people are trying more to take care of themselves.

There are different methods to approaching this problem of being unhealthy and some of the reason for this depends on why you are unhealthy and some of it on your personal approach to things. For example, some people will know that they have got into an unhealthy rut and will attempt lifestyle alterations like exercising more and eating more healthily, whereas others will purchase a load of pills and hope that they do the job.

Then there is the middle road. We are busy and we do not all have an hour a day to spend at the gym and some of us could not work out even if we wished to. So, the middle road, may be to exercise as frequently as you can by walking or practicing yoga at home; eating more sensible food, that is stuff that you can eat raw or that you cook yourself and by taking a couple of supplements.

Which supplements might you decide on? Well, that really depends on your diet. There is not much use in taking calcium tablets if you eat cheese sandwiches for luncheon, a T-bone steak for dinner and drink milk each day, but there might be a decent reason for taking calcium supplements if you are a vegan.

I have a friend who will not eat vegetables and particularly greens, but, realizing that his diet lacks roughage amongst other things, he eats porridge for breakfast and snacks on fruit. Another friend hates fish, he cannot even look at it, but he is conscious of the value of omega 3 essential fatty acids and so he takes it in the form of capsules. He probably gets more omega 3 than I do and I love fish.

So, the first thing to do is note down everything that you eat for a week or two and then analyze what is lacking in your diet. The analysis might be above you, although it probably is not, but you could take your diary or food to your medical doctor or dietitian. It might surprise you a lot to find out exactly what you eat during a week.

As a point of interest, the majority of rural Thais do not eat beef or make cheese or drink milk, so over the centuries they have added small bones to their diet. In the West if we get a tiny bone in our mouth, we tend to remove it, but a Thai will crunch it to tiny pieces and swallow it – fish bones, small bird bones, frogs bones. Not only does it replace the missing calcium but it keeps their teeth strong in a country that is only just creating dentistry for the masses.

Owen Jones, the author of this piece, writes on several topics, and is now concerned with pure omega 3. If you want to know more, please go to our site at Omega 6 9

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