Exercise and Health

Exercise and Health

Exercise and Health

Keeping fit, healthy and active is one of the more rewarding things in life. With it, comes agility, muscle tone, better appearance and a more upbeat attitude, not to mention links with increased concentration, improved academic performance and higher levels of productivity in the workplace as well.

With a large percentage of the world in today's vastly modernised western world becoming increasingly dependent on technological advances, there are now escalators to do our climbing, cars to do our walking and delivery services for almost everything, and unsurprisingly obesity and health problems are on the rise.

It all begins with primitive instincts. Back in prehistoric times before civilisation, humans would walk and run everywhere, live active lifestyles, hunt their own prey and eat lots of edible plants for sustenance. This lifestyle kept them strong and healthy and ensured an adequate supply of food to keep populations going.

The average human being can survive for around 30 days without food without serious damage to health. To better avoid this, humans would save their energy unless the expenditure of it would reap greater rewards and was needed; for example, one would acquire more energy from digesting an apple than one would use through the process of eating it, so if someone was hungry then eating an apple would be a good way to go. However, if the apple was 20 miles away then a more survival-friendly approach would be to look for an alternative food source. It is this survival instinct that drives humans to be naturally lazy, so as not to waste resources.

Currently however, these circumstances do not exist. Our food is caught/prepared for us and readily available most of the time. Rather than hunted and gathered, things are selected and bought, and so laziness is not really beneficial any more, except in survival situations.

If humans were going to survive to their capacity, they would definitely need to eat regularly and know that eating was doing the fantastic job of keeping them alive. To achieve this, the brain sends out mood-improving chemicals known as endorphins after every meal, and if something feels good, it makes perfect sense to do it all the more. It is this that makes human beings prone to over-eating.

So biology hasn't quite caught up with the times as far as food consumption goes, with humans being naturally greedy and lazy. From this it's not hard to see why there are so many problems. But every cloud has a silver lining.

The fittest, most adept humans would be much better equipped to survive, be much quicker and able to avoid danger and find a wider range of food, and so the body has in turn taken to releasing endorphins with exercise as well. Put simply the more people exercise, the easier it is and the better it feels.

The easiest way it seems to achieve health andwell-beingis to get outside, enjoy nature, life and clear one's head.

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