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On July 20th 1969 I was a medical student sitting alone in the second year in a cottage in the English countryside. It was the morning, but was also a time As the world changed radically. Neil Armstrong stepped on the surface of the moon and said, \ "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind \".

At this particular point in our lives, not only at the end of one year and the beginning of another, but at a time of economic fear and talk of recessions and depressions, is well to remember the great things, we as humans are really capable of. It is almost 40 years now that these amazing images of our beautiful Earth, blue, taken from the surface of the moon against a backdrop of pitch black space, made us realize that literally all in this together and we all have a role to play.

Here on Earth in late 2008 and early 2009, speaking in the media about all the global financial crisis, with all its consequences. However, from a medical standpoint, things are humming along quite well thank you very much. Ever since man landed on the moon that we have made great advances in medicine too. For example, we now have fantastic analysis of equipment to look inside the human body without cutting it open. Our understanding and management cardiovascular disease is well advanced, as a result of hundreds of thousands of lives have been saved. The hearing has been restored with lens implants and laser treatments. Audience has been restored to profound deafness by cochlear implants. More recently, advances in cancer treatment have taken a leap forward with the introduction vaccines to prevent cervical cancer, a common murderer younger women. Childhood leukemia is not the death penalty once used to be, thanks to the tremendous results the use of new drugs and the gift of bone marrow transplants. The list of advances is really impressive, but needless to say, yet There are a lot of work to do.

Although scientists have been doing a great job, we as individuals have to do more in our own lives. Why is obesity on the rise? Why all type II diabetes? Why has not gone the way of the Dodo smoking, and why so many of our indigenous brothers and sisters who still live in third world conditions? Lives needlessly lost even alcohol, suicide and related cancers with the lifestyle. Our beaches are still full at this time of year when half the day, as people from the burning beauty of hunting, ignoring the fact that increase your risk of skin cancer induced by Sun

We are fortunate living in a smart country, but we can do much better. Maybe we can turn the belt from economic squeeze for our own good use: to become more fit and healthy by losing weight if necessary and eating more vegetables and fresh fruit, for stopping smoking and reducing alcohol intake, not to be sucked into a quick fix, "you can also see as beautiful or as rich as I am" advertising. Then maybe we can be a little more confidence in what we are.

Maybe we can reach those who need that little extra care and attention. Such time to live a href = "http://www.hbf.com.au/Family_Doctor/index.html"> healthy lifestyle can reduce our dependence on health the system so that less is needed to treat lifestyle-related health problems, and more can be spent on treating sick and needy children of truth. Perhaps each of us take responsibility for living our own lives, and we can then we can truly say we are intelligent people who live in a very fortunate country.

We wish you a very happy healthy and hope-filled New Year.

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HBF Health Funds, the largest health insurance provider in Western Australia.

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Insidermedicine in 60 – February 28, 2008