Less than 100 years ago a hard working man would spend his day sweating behind a horse and plow. If he wanted to go to the village he would cycle and in the evenings he would do home repairs. His wife would be doing all the housework without appliances and cooking from scratch without a microwave.
The lifestyle of their grandchildren and great grandchildren is so very different. The modern day worker usually sits in front of a computer for most of the day, drives a car almost everywhere, spends the evening on the couch in front of the television and eats highly processed foods loaded with sugar, fat and harmful chemicals.
With technology advancing at lightening speed, it is an exciting time to be alive in human evolution. But unfortunately there is a dark side to the comfort and ease of our modern conveniences. It has also contributed to sedentary and inactive life-styles becoming the norm in large segments of the population.
We have become fat, lazy, sick, doctor and drug dependent as epidemic health threats called chronic ‘lifestyle disease’ have paralleled the march of technology. And the worst of it is modern technology has also produced a unprecedented number of sedentary children. The cause…too much food…and too little exercise.
Frightening Predictions:
The predictions are frightening; here are some of them:
Children born in the year 2000 and beyond will be the first children in recorded history to NOT outlive their parents. One in three of these unfortunate children will develop Type 2 Diabetes before they turn 18. Over 50% of them will be obese… over 75 percent of them overweight resulting in them having a predicted shortened lifespan of 20 -30 years.
The human suffering and financial cost of these predictions will be unimaginable as 400 million people are predicted to die from disease that is premature and preventable in the next ten years.
Although everyone knows that proper intentional exercise that works the muscular system is essential to health only six out of ten adults do it. It is as if no-one really cares whether they live or die.
Not exercising is as dangerous to ones health as smoking and yet not so long ago smoking was not considered a health threat. It will be the same with exercise, one day soon not doing enough muscle building and maintaining activity in our sedentary world will be considered as dangerous to ones health as smoking two packs of cigarettes a day.
But why wait until then. It is so simple to get started on a proper exercise program set up by a fitness professional so you get the most “bang for your buck.”
How hard is it to ditch some of the processed food and start replacing them with natural fresh whole foods that man hasn’t tampered with and dumped harmful chemicals in?
Start taking some responsibility and protect yourself and your children from being one of 400 million people that will become statistics in the next decade. Reclaim what rightfully belongs to each one of us – a health span that matches our increased life span.
The responsibility for your health and fitness falls directly on you. However, you are also the one that reaps the rewards and benefits from your accountability.
If you truly want to take command of your life and avoid disease somewhere down the road – your muscles need to be in tip-top condition…strong and toned at all times – starting now.
“Reclaim Your Longevity” can help you do just that…
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