The Real Threat to Americans - and Australians!

I often wonder at the way our minds work.

It's almost a universal truth that people spend more money on their health in the last two years of their life than they do in the whole of the rest of their life. Today my lovely sister Beverley goes to hospital to have part of her lung removed after years of smoking. She's intelligent, reads heaps and is a trained nurse, so brains aren't the issue here. And she is not an example; she is a symbol of all of us who do the same in so many ways; alcohol, fat, burgers, even stress!

So here's the thing that really gets to me; when people actually KNOW that certain behaviours are life threatening, it seems they are happy to continue them as long as they don't get immediate death. Is it change they fear?
This page portrays this skewed concept in exquisite detail.
Here's the page.