No single option available has a greater impact than exercise on our ability to prevent, manage, and alleviate the behavioral disorders to which human beings are subject.
Granted, other factors – good nutrition, counseling, seminars, proper elimination, etc. – are also important. But without exercise they will not have the overall positive effect on health, longevity and your God-given potential.
It is clinical fact that without adequate exercise we die prematurely. We simply do not function at our optimum – mentally, physically, or spiritually – without exercise.
Let’s use the honey bee as an example. The bee is a highly efficient flying machine that soon folds its wings and takes it easy when put in a zero gravity environment. At first it appears to enjoy the free ride, but within a few days it weakens and dies.
Our human bodies need to struggle. Decades ago as we began to explore outer space, the human body experience weightlessness for the first time and confirmed our need for physical exertion. Without gravity to promote exercise, blood pressure increased and cardio-respiratory efficiency decreased. Along with the loss of muscle tone, these are the major symptoms of aging. In weightlessness, one step beyond no-exercise, the function of the body is omitted. As scientists soon discovered, the human body grows old very quickly during prolonged periods of weightlessness.
Hippocrates, the father of medicine, recognized this and considered exercise the best medicine. Without it, he proposed, bodies suffered from muscular atrophy (the slow wasting away of muscle tissue) and premature death.
Hippocrates, the father of medicine, recognized this and considered exercise the best medicine. Without it, he proposed, bodies suffered from muscular atrophy (the slow wasting away of muscle tissue) and premature death.
A healthy muscle is long and lean. Exercise enthusiasts develop it in their pursuit of the “long, lean, and mean machine.” A short, squat muscle, nearly saturated with intramuscular fat, is what a neglected muscle can come to look like. With exercise, fatty muscles can be converted into sleek, well-toned muscles. Anyone who can exercise can prevent or reverse the process of muscle atrophy and premature death.
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