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5．What Is Wellness?
5．健康是什么？
The field of medicine has not traditionallydistinguished between someone who is merely "not ill" and someone whois in excellent health and pays attention to the body's special needs. Bothtypes have simply been called "well". In rencent years, however, somehealth specialists have begun to apply the terms "well" and"wellness" only to those who are actively striving to maintain andimprove their health.
對于僅僅是“沒有生病”和身體非常健康、非常注意身體特殊需求的兩種人，傳統醫學并沒有嚴格區分。這兩種人都被簡單定義為“身體健康”。然而近些年來，一些醫學專家開始認為，只有那些主動維持和改善其身體狀態的人才稱得上“身體好”和“健康”。
People who are well are concerned withnutrition and exercise, and they make a point of monitoring their body'scondition. Most important, perhaps, people who are well take activeresponsiblity for matters related to their health. Even people who have aphysical disease or handicap may be "well", in this new sense, ifthey make an effort to maintain the best possible health they can in the faceof their physical limitations.
健康的人非常關注營養均衡以及運動，他們非常重視監控自己的身體狀況。最重要的可能是健康的人主動承擔起改善自己身體狀況的所有責任。在這種意義上，只要他們能在他們現有的身體限制條件下盡可能地保持最好的狀態，即使是一個有著生理疾病或缺陷的人都可能是“健康”的。
"Wellness" may perhaps best beviewed not as a state that people can achieve, but as an ideal that people canstrive for. People who are well are likely to be better able to resist diseaseand to fight disease when it strikes. And by focusing attention on healthy waysof living, the concept of wellness can have a beneficial impact on the ways inwhich people face the challenges of daily life.
對“健康”的最佳理解可能不是人們能達到的一種狀態，而是人們能追求的一個理想。健康的人更有可能預防疾病和在疾病發作時戰勝它。通過關注健康的生活方式，健康的新概念還能對人們如何面對日常生活的挑戰產生積極的影響。
