[discussion question] health and spirituality

I am asking these questions honestly, folks. I keep getting hung up on the word "health."

Wellness works for me. Wellness suggests to me well-being, general goodness in one's state of being.

Health... I am reading as the opposite of sickness or illness, and when I think illness I think chronic illness, which leads to a whole different set of questions and a whole different problem.

Maybe it's that health as the opposite of sickness conjures up images of my girlfriend's medical texts and anatomy labs and I have difficulty connecting that to what we do in church on Sunday.

So my question is How is physical health a spiritual issue?

I will readily admit: I suck at honoring my body most of the time. If I could live in my head and didn't need to eat or sleep or move? I would be much happier. I wouldn't really be much happier, but I imagine that I would.

So talk to me about God and health and sickness and exercise and diet and all the things that are components of your idea of a healthy lifestyle and tell me how they are also part of your spirituality.

Or tell me, why does God want you me us to be healthy?

Or tell me, what does being healthy entail?

Write legibly in ink and cite all your sources. You have three hours.