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There are multiple wars against various enemies being fought in our modern society at present although it may not be commonly publicized in this manner. Make no mistake, our society and even the worlds population in general is truly at war against a common enemy. That enemy is "modern chronic disease" caused mainly by our increasingly sedentary lifestyles. A war needs to be fought against it so we do not burden the children of future generations with a 20 – 30 year shortened lifespan. Surely most people would agree this is not a good legacy to leave them. How can such an intelligent species of beings evolved into a race of inactive sitters? We sit at the table, we sit watching TV, we sit at work, we sit in the car, we sit at the bar, we sit on the airplane, we sit on the train and we sit on machinery to replace manual labor. We spend almost all of our day hardly moving at all. Seventy percent of us do not even get the bare minimum of 30 minutes of moderate activity each day to maintain a basic degree of good health. If vigorous movement is the stimulus for the hormones necessary to instruct every tissue, system, process and every single cell in the human body to repair, rebuild, renew and replace itself how do we think we can maintain good health? Do we not care? The effects of at least 35 chronic major diseases and conditions can be linked back to a sedentary lifestyle. And the definition of a sedentary lifestyle is someone who spends the majority of their day sitting. We all are aware that a basic minimum of vigorous movement is necessary for us to remain healthy but it is actually much more than that. It is a matter of life and death. Inactivity kills two million of us annually around the world. There are little other problems we face in our modern world that cause so much human suffering and financial cost to so many people and their families. Yet what is the average person doing about it? Seeing 70% of us are sedentary nothing really is being done about it. We need to change the way we think about our health. Somehow we have become doctor and drug reliant and when we get symptoms of illness we expect them to fix us up. But the problem with this is that by the time we actually get physical symptoms of disease or illness it may well be too late to fix it. Doctors and drugs cannot cure these diseases and at best can only manage them so we can continue living but often the quality of our life is drastically reduced. Diseases take a very long time to develop, sometimes years or even decades so when symptoms finally appear it is likely there are multiple conditions smoldering away like a ticking time bomb. How can we think that we can just pass the responsibility of this on to someone else especially when it is virtually self inflicted? Nobody surely would want this either for themselves or their loved family members. Yet so much of this could be avoided if we all give our body the tools it needs to keep itself healthy. The solution is so very simple. Vigorous movement, exercise, activity, work call it what you like but that is what every single person on the planet needs as a basic minimum to avoid ending up as one of the increasing statistics. How hard is it to partake in a proper regular exercise program that contains a large percentage of strength training exercise a couple of times a week? How hard would it also be to add a couple of sessions of interval training as well into the week? We are talking about 2-3 hours per week of exercise. If you believe this is entirely possible for you to achieve it is very important that this time you do spend is spent with the right exercise program, preformed in the right way so you get the right results. Forget that walking is all you need to do to stay healthy, if that were true we wouldn't have a problem as we all have legs and we all walk. It takes more than that to stay healthy. Take your future into your own hands and get started right away on your journey to becoming stronger, fitter and healthier. We only get one shot at this thing called our life so it is up to each of us to protect it.
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