That word thing again...

You are right, preventative care is a stupid term. It sounds as though we stand, battle ready, for any disease that is ready to pounce. Really, it should be about maintaining health. We are just not educated on, nor connected with how to maintain our body's health. Our physical (and therefore emotional and spiritual) health is connected to the 'outside world'. Have you ever considered what a sublime act eating is, taking something from the outside, something that was not a part of you, and somehow turning it into a part of you? How intimate that act is, and how for granted we take it. We have stepped outside of maintaining our mere existence- or is it our miraculous existence?