Every day technology advances at a frightening speed. Things like the awe of the internet, satellite navigation systems; spaceships about to launch civilians into space flights, bionic limbs, growing new body parts from stem cells and talking live to someone on the other side of the world on video are just a few of the mind blowing advancements.
It is an exciting time to be alive in human evolution but there is a dark side to the comfort and ease of our modern conveniences. We have become fat, lazy and sick and these epidemic health threats have paralleled the march of technology.
We spend our days hardly moving. We go from our bed, to sit in our car, to our desk where we sit all day. The most work we do is to click a mouse as we sit motionless in front of a computer screen. We get back in our car for the drive home only to sit in front of a screen of some sort remaining virtually motionless till we go to bed again.
Yet our bodies have not changed in tens of thousands of years. They were designed to be active - very active. They are designed for hard physical work which is the necessary signals that tell our body that its strength is needed to feed a family. That it is needed to remain alive and well.
Take that work away and we are programmed to decay, deteriorate and die as quickly as possible to make room at the trough for the next generation. Without physical 'work' there are no signals to trigger the 'growth and repair' hormones that keep the human body strong so it can hunt and gather food to feed others.
Just the same as they did tens of thousands of years ago. Our bodies have not changed their blueprint but our modern lives have changed and no longer care about what our bodies need to keep themselves health and well.
We have become spoiled. Lazy. Complacent. Doctor dependent. And we are paying a high price for it. As if a pill or medical procedure can fix the human body once it has broken down. By the time a 'chronic lifestyle' killer disease shows itself it could have been ten, twenty or more years in the making.
Fifty percent of the world's population has a chronic 'lifestyle disease' and many have multiple conditions which slowly siphons their lives away. These diseases such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes and dozens of others are called 'lifestyle diseases' because they are caused by the way we live our lives. Caused by what we do and don't do every single day in the way of proper exercise and proper nutrition.
Ironically, none of our new technological marvels and ground breaking scientific or medical miracles can solve our overweight, our obesity and our sickness.
Our so called 'health system' should be called a 'sickness system' as it does not create health and only treats sickness.
Our so called 'health system' should be called a 'sickness system' as it does not create health and only treats sickness.
We have to realize there is no easy way. There is no pill, no doctor, and no machine and there never will be. More knowledge is not going to help; we already have all the answers. We understand the human body better than ever before. But we have to do more than 'talk the talk'. The problem lies in the doing (or lack of it). We have to 'walk the walk' as well.
You have to do the work - in the gym and in the kitchen. But that unfortunately that takes will power, discipline, mental toughness, effort and some hard work. And these are attributes that seem to have left the human consciousness as only six out of ten adults even bother to exercise.
They have become so complacent that they no longer even seem to care that a sedentary lifestyle which is defined as 'not doing enough muscle building and maintaining activity' is dangerously shortening their lives.
Science has revealed that we age badly not because to the passing years but because we stop being active and challenging our body. If we don't start making better exercise and nutrition choices the human body is in danger of becoming redundant and what happens to the technology then?
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Carolyn Hansen is a certified fitness expert and fitness center owner who coaches clients to look and feel younger. In her nearly 30 years of fitness and bodybuilding competition experience she has helped thousands of people start their journey towards being strong, fit and youthful at any age.
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