7 Days without exercise makes One weak!

Healthy living, Anti Aging, Optimal nutrition.

All three ‘hot’ topics found all over the media for a reason: The overall health of America is in a major crisis. The statistics regarding our obesity epidemics are staggering; children being diagnosed with diabetes type 2 at age 10, it’s almost unbelievable, especially when with few exceptions, it’s fully preventable. Does learning to prevent obesity or weight related issues directly contribute to a healthy lifestyle?

The answer should be a strong YES obviously…

BUT..as with most things in life, it’s easier said than done.

The concepts of discipline, focus, research, planning, action-REAL action, not just ‘affirmation’ and ‘positive’ thinking-have all been ingrained in our minds by conscientious teachers, parents and mentors right? We know that to succeed in business we must apply those concepts regularly, and we often do.

Strangely, these same values often fail to reflect in the way we treat our bodies.

Why is this so?…
Can’t the strategies we use to reach OTHER life goals be used to implement the changes we badly need if we want to live a healthy, anti aging lifestyle? Is the connection between disease-resistance and nutrition so far fetched and hard to grasp that it eludes millions of people to the point of oblivion? Do we not consider our health worth the effort it takes to keep it performing top notch?

Some quick facts: The body will always strive for balance and each organ in our body will do the job it was designed to do. Take the pancreas, whose major role – when normal – is to regulate blood glucose levels:

You eat a meal> pancreas releases enough insulin to regulate glucose> insulin delivers glucose into cells for energy> pancreas is doing its job.

BUT, what if that meal is high in sugar, or easily converted into sugar as pastas and breads are? Worse, what if those type of meals are ingested three times a day, seven days a week for years on end? You get the pic.

Now, your pancreas is working overtime, trying frantically to do its job of regulating sugar levels, until it no longer do its job well, and the cells are now insensitive to insulin so that they no longer let it in past their membrane…

The result? You feel tired and fatigued because your brain lacks enough glucose to function properly, because it’s now accumulating in the blood, because the pancreas it’s slacking off, because, it’s tired of all that sugar overload…(gulp!)

A few more facts: When healthy, the kidneys maintain the body’s internal balance of water and minerals (calcium, potassium etc). Too much sugar disrupts this delicate balance ultimately damaging the kidneys.

Kidney dialysis, imperfect and painful treatment at best, does not replace kidney function. Treat your kidneys right today, for a better life tomorrow.

This is why The most important and easy ways to prevent weight problems, diabetes, and kidney failure include practicing anti-aging healthy life styles, which revolve to a more wholesome, natural way of eating and a daily dose of exercise. (did I say Prevention?)

A very sad but true fact: Too many people think it’s too much work or too weird to lead a healthier lifestyle..

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Tags: aging population, Disease Control And Prevention, Premature Aging

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