It's Time to Look at Your Body // Healthy Living to a Ripe Old Age, Part 1

<p>With all the advances in medicine and science, the rates of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer are skyrocketing. Diseases that were almost unheard of a century ago are now pandemics. Why, what’s going on?</p> <p> </p> <h3><strong><span style="color: #ff9900;">Something’s Not Quite Right</span></strong></h3> <p>That’s right, we’re going to talk about some things that aren’t in the Bible in this series – and as a Bible teacher that’s something I’ve struggled with a lot in planning and preparing these messages. Just for a few programs, we’re going to do something that I as a Bible teacher do very rarely.</p> <p>Because there is something going on in our world that you won’t find in the Bible. Obesity, metabolic syndrome, cardio vascular disease, diabetes and cancer.</p> <p>That’s not to say that they didn’t exist back in Biblical times – with medical knowledge as it was a few millennia ago, of course, when someone died, let’s say of a heart attack or stroke, they didn’t know the cause back then – people just died. But by the late 19th century and early 20th century, we knew how to identify these diseases, it’s just that they didn’t exist.</p> <p>In the early part of the 20th century just a two or three thousand Americans each year would die of cancer. Today, that number is over 650,000 – and it’s only that low because medical science has come up with ways of reducing the morbidity rate of those who a myocardial infarction – that to you and me, is a heart attack.</p> <p>The rates of heart disease are much higher still, with up to a third of the population of the average westernised, industrialised country suffering from some debilitating effect of cardiovascular disease. If you were an Australian or an American at the turn of the 20th century, your chances of being obese were remote, around one in 25. Today, your chances of being an obese adult are around one in 3 and climbing.</p> <p>People, something terrible is going on and we need to talk about it. I am someone who all his life has struggled with his