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THE POST-CHELATION LIFE STYLE - WILL POWER ALONE WON'T DO IT

If you've ever tried to diet, quit smoking, cut down on sweets, stop nail biting, or rid yourself of any annoying habit, you already know that subconscious yearnings can undermine your determination to do what's good for you. The conflict between reason and desire can sandbag your best efforts to withstand temptation.
Why don't we all take better care of ourselves? For starters, even when we know enough to realize which pastries, cream sauces, luscious grilled steaks and other wonderful-tasting foods are deadly, we optimistically hope that indulging - just once in a while - won't do us in. Dieting vacationers, for example, pretend calories don't 'count' while they're on holiday; party-goers play the same game -"I've held myself in check all week -1 can afford to enjoy the weekend."
And to varying degrees, we're all 'deniers'. Ironically, the more fearful we are of the consequences of our actions, the more apt we are to pretend that 'the rules' don't apply - that we are 'above it all'. To deny our morality, we defy the gods, take irrational chances and succumb to health-endangering indulgences.
Even people who've had a close brush with death often exhibit paradoxical bravado. Lung cancer patients frequently continue smoking; so do emphysema sufferers. There's a published case of a seventy-four year old gentleman who developed cancer of the throat, was successfully operated on and survived, and went right back to smoking! His cancer reappeared. A second operation again restored his speech and swallowing ability.
After two close calls, you'd think he'd give up smoking. Wrong. When doctors asked him why he still smoked and drank, he responded: "What difference can it make at my age?"
Such a response is not unusual. People at great risk are wont to say, "We're all going to die sometime, why worry about it?"
Supporting that sentiment: we all know people who've lived happily into their eighties despite breaking all the rules. There's 'Uncle Charlie' dining on steak and french fries seven times a week, and healthy as a horse. There's George Burns, still puffing ten cigars a day at age 96. We forget that some people can get away with all sorts of bodily abuse because they've been gentically blessed with a phenomenal immune system. Unfortunately, few of us are that lucky. Even those with long-lived ancestors have no assurance they'll survive in like fashion because of the damaging effect of a multitude of modern-day assaults which can defeat the sturdiest genes.
Psychologists agree: we all harbor a natural reluctance to accept unpalatable truths. People rarely believe ominous statistics apply to them. Disguised optimism - "It can happen to HIM but it can't happen to me" - and an irrational retreat from reality underlies much self-destructive behavior.

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