Now We’re Talking!
So, apparently writing stories and joke entries isn’t necessarily good material, at least not for all my audience, so I’m prepared to write something a little more serious. Today, we’ll be talking about YOUR HEALTH. Ooh, yes, that should catch your attention.
Well, actually, it might not. Over 44% of people under the age of 30 have no regard for their health. (Okay, so I made that up, the point remains.) They don’t seriously consider what they drink, what they eat, how much they should be exercising, what kind of vitamins and nutrients they need to put into their bodies, their mental health, cholesterol, blood pressure etc. Most young people, like me, think we’re invincible. Then we find out we’re temples made of hamburger (A bit of a Community reference there.). We fall apart just like anyone else. So we try to preserve our health by eating right, watching everything we eat, exercising, scrutinising over every detail in our sordid lives (or possibly our awesome lives. Depends on how well your body can cope without you paying any attention to it)
I’m under the impression that the body takes care of itself instinctively. We learn what to eat, we know when we’re full, we get antsy when we don’t exercise, etc. They body tries to repair itself as much as possible, and so if you’re living instictively, you would hope that the outcome is that your health should be fine, overall.
Well, unfortunately, that’s not true.
The problem with instincts is that they get confused. Maybe if you’re living in isolation, you might not be affected by this, but the air, the water, the food and the marketing/design of said foods, including particular secret recipes, are all designed to pretty much fool our primitive instincts into messing up out body chemistry. Some knowledge is required really, for healthy living. I mean, that’s pretty much what modern natural selection is, finding ways to fool each other into attraction. We work out, put on make up, write supposedly intellectual blog entries (that are in fact laughable) to fool them silly folk out there into believing that we’re better potential mates than the next bloke. (This feels a little tangential..hmm) Your health requires some degree of awareness, that’s all.
Awareness easily got? Well yes, it should be easily got. Go do some reading about it. Read about the right proportion of food you should be eating, for macro and micro nutrients. Go read about GI and all that other jazz. Go read about mental health. If you’re illiterate, learn to read. In fact, what are you even doing, staring at this page blankly? I know the pictures from a few posts ago might be attractive to you, but it must be so confusing for you. Poor sod.
…that’s all I’ve got to say about health really. People try to cure their ailments through nutrition. The stuff you put in is supposed to be what you get out. Some foods make your brain work better. Some foods make you harder, stronger, better, faster. Some foods make you write awesome dance music. People don’t want to die, after all. What’s that mentality that people take? Eat crap, drink heaps, don’t exercise, die anyway. A friend of mine was telling me, in relation to the concept of an afterlife (or lack thereof) “Do your best folks, no one comes out of this alive”.
So really, if the quality of your life is already pretty good, then extending it by treating your body well, given that the body (barring the power of the mind to cure the body through meditation or “prayer”) is mostly chemical and biological, requires you to watch what you put in there.
That’s all folks. May your health be excellent and your life expectancies increase in a noticeable fashion.
Well, actually, it might not. Over 44% of people under the age of 30 have no regard for their health. (Okay, so I made that up, the point remains.) They don’t seriously consider what they drink, what they eat, how much they should be exercising, what kind of vitamins and nutrients they need to put into their bodies, their mental health, cholesterol, blood pressure etc. Most young people, like me, think we’re invincible. Then we find out we’re temples made of hamburger (A bit of a Community reference there.). We fall apart just like anyone else. So we try to preserve our health by eating right, watching everything we eat, exercising, scrutinising over every detail in our sordid lives (or possibly our awesome lives. Depends on how well your body can cope without you paying any attention to it)
I’m under the impression that the body takes care of itself instinctively. We learn what to eat, we know when we’re full, we get antsy when we don’t exercise, etc. They body tries to repair itself as much as possible, and so if you’re living instictively, you would hope that the outcome is that your health should be fine, overall.
Well, unfortunately, that’s not true.
The problem with instincts is that they get confused. Maybe if you’re living in isolation, you might not be affected by this, but the air, the water, the food and the marketing/design of said foods, including particular secret recipes, are all designed to pretty much fool our primitive instincts into messing up out body chemistry. Some knowledge is required really, for healthy living. I mean, that’s pretty much what modern natural selection is, finding ways to fool each other into attraction. We work out, put on make up, write supposedly intellectual blog entries (that are in fact laughable) to fool them silly folk out there into believing that we’re better potential mates than the next bloke. (This feels a little tangential..hmm) Your health requires some degree of awareness, that’s all.
Awareness easily got? Well yes, it should be easily got. Go do some reading about it. Read about the right proportion of food you should be eating, for macro and micro nutrients. Go read about GI and all that other jazz. Go read about mental health. If you’re illiterate, learn to read. In fact, what are you even doing, staring at this page blankly? I know the pictures from a few posts ago might be attractive to you, but it must be so confusing for you. Poor sod.
…that’s all I’ve got to say about health really. People try to cure their ailments through nutrition. The stuff you put in is supposed to be what you get out. Some foods make your brain work better. Some foods make you harder, stronger, better, faster. Some foods make you write awesome dance music. People don’t want to die, after all. What’s that mentality that people take? Eat crap, drink heaps, don’t exercise, die anyway. A friend of mine was telling me, in relation to the concept of an afterlife (or lack thereof) “Do your best folks, no one comes out of this alive”.
So really, if the quality of your life is already pretty good, then extending it by treating your body well, given that the body (barring the power of the mind to cure the body through meditation or “prayer”) is mostly chemical and biological, requires you to watch what you put in there.
That’s all folks. May your health be excellent and your life expectancies increase in a noticeable fashion.