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Sustainable Body
It may seem odd at first to think of your body as sustainable, but let's face it, if it's not, nothing else matters. By the end of the next millennium, you may be able to alter your genes and actually grow younger, but for now let's play it safe. There are about four things you must do to keep a sustainable body:
- Eat the highest quality food you can find.
- Avoid pollution.
- Exercise regularly.
- Cultivate a positive frame of mind.
When you step back for a second, it's not hard to see what's killing people these days:
Toxic Food: Genetically altered, factory farmed, anti-biotic and pesticide-laced foods do not promote healthy bodies. The fast food so popular in "modern" counties is the best example of what not to eat. It is full of fat, including dangerous hydrogenated fat, and virtually devoid of nutrition. If you don't believe that fast food is a crime against nature, society and your body, then you need to read the new blockbuster best-seller, Fast Food Nation. If you can accept that premise without reading a book, then let us show you how to dramatically improve your diet.
Toxic Environments: Thousands of everyday household products, from cleansers and polishes to paints and pesticides, contain chemicals which injure human endocrine, nervous and reproductive systems. These same chemicals off-gas from our swimming pools, our carpeting, our furniture, and our lawns. Formaldehyde, dust, mold, germs, fibers and hundreds of other chemicals pollute the air inside workplaces, schools, hospitals, airplanes, and even in your home. Outdoor air is loaded with auto exhaust, tire particulates and smokestack effluent. Runoff from factory farms, sewage plants and our filthy urban streets taints our water supply. Magnetic and electro-magnetic fields permeate homes, offices and the great outdoors. Need we say more? Short of complete withdrawal from modern society, what can you do?
Few, if any, government agencies have the time, money or political will to study the cumulative effect of multiple toxins coming at a human body from multiple sources. Even if they did, they would be hard pressed to prove danger to the satisfaction of our corporate-subservient scientific community and political elite. Since you cannot expect the government to take dynamic steps to safeguard your health, you will have to take them yourself. Keep coming back to this site; we will show you how.
Sedentary Lifestyles: We drive everywhere; our culture has become automated. We have drive-through food, banking, even shopping. Noisy gasoline blowers replace rakes. We watch sports on television rather than participating ourselves.
American youth spend an estimated 20 percent of their waking hours glued to the tube. They twiddle their thumbs with video games instead running with footballs and skating with hockey sticks. Schools have replaced chin-up and parallel bars with the playground equivalent of a TV dinner. The internet gives us all another reason to sit transfixed by a glowing tube.
Like the rest of the population, American youth are becoming more obese. According to Newsweek magazine, in 1994 13 percent of American children were overweight, up from less than 5 percent in 1964. Another 25 percent are in danger of becoming overweight. A dozen medical studies have linked TV watching with obesity, where a child may be exposed to as many as 50 ads for junk food per hour during Saturday morning cartoons. Overall, obesity is growing world wide, especially in the U.S. and in Europe. In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control released a report detailing the growing inactivity and obesity of American youth, and some strategies to reverse that trend.
Again, the growing girth of our youth is directly related to epidemic-level consumption of fat-laden, salt-laden, nutrition-less fast food and the corresponding sugar-loaded soft drinks which are marketed to our youth. If you don't believe us, read the book Fast Food Nation.