Mielenkiintoista tekstiä Art De Vanyn kirjan näytekappaleessa, mun lihavoinnit:

http://www.arthurdevany.com/Chapter1.pdf

"The sedentary phenotype, homo sedentarius, is the typical modern American
who gets no exercise, becomes obese, unfit, chronically ill, and ages
rapidly because his genes are adapted to an active lifeway. Sedentism and
obesity alter the expression of the active genotype and this produces disease.
Diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, insulin resistance, heart disease and the whole
modern panoply of chronic, long lasting diseases are the product of genes
that require activity for healthful expression; an active life is essential to the
healthy expression of this active genotype. If this is right, then exercise is
not just something that you do to improve your health and drop off some fat.
It is not an “intervention” as some health professionals call it. It is essential
to a healthy life. You exercise because the length and quality of your life
depend upon it.

What happens to astronauts is pretty convincing evidence of the essentialness
of activity. There also is a world of other evidence which I shall
mention later. Consider the astronaut. The astronaut’s body wastes away
when it is in the zero gravity environment of outer space. They must do
their exercises or they will not last to the end of their mission. Even when
they do exercise they return to earth having lost a good deal of their muscle,
organ, heart, and skeletal tissue (probably brain tissue too)."


"Your only real possessions from this point forward are your mind and your body, and they
are one. The first principle of Evolutionary Fitness is that your mind and
body are your most prized possessions. This philosophy is held by hunter
gatherers whose only possessions are their minds and bodies. Many people
treat their bodies, and their minds, like they despise them or as though they
are foreign objects for which they bear no responsibility. You must treat
yourself with all due respect.
To treat yourself with respect, you must honor your body and your mind.
And, one must understand the evolutionary basis of our instincts and desires.
With that understanding comes an acceptance and respect and a
tolerance that will help you make healthy changes. Drastic diets do not
respect the body and damage it. Forget the Soviet, command and control
approach where you force yourself to exercise or diet. The command and
control method is disrespectful to your mind and body and is doomed to fail.
You have no control. Let it happen."

Viimeksi muokattu marks (10.06.2007 00:01:43)