As we enter the new Town Fitness Challenge, the Blayney Chronicle and Lyndhurst dietitian Bec Kurtz will be presenting regular articles on how you can improve your health.
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So, no doubt you aware generally speaking that the population trends in regards to health are typically not improving despite advances in science and technology.
Seems odd doesn’t it? However, going back to the evolution of the human, and the lifestyle that was lived, the primary task then was to simply survive.
Today, however in the western world, survival is not a factor that plays a part in our everyday lives for the majority of people.
The human body was designed to be like many animals we see today.
Search for food, hunt, gather, find water, shelter and avoid potential dangers.
We were, and still are, primed to survive during times of feast and famine, and the body is programmed to store fat during the feasts, in order to rely on it during famine to ensure survival.
This is still evident today within our genes, however the issue we now face is that we live in a time of continuous feast, famine is almost non-existent for most in western countries, and we have no need to hunt, gather, find water, build shelter and avoid dangers on a daily basis.
What we have established via science and technology is an easy way to avoid the necessity of having to do this each and every day and the result for most, is our daily tasks now require many hours of sitting.
So, no wonder we are getting fat when we are designed to be moving continuously in various directions, running for short periods, getting down with in the earth and digging, carrying heavy objects and then preparing food and shelter.
This was our resistance and cardio training we participated in daily. But what do we do now?
We have bikes, tractors, vehicles and heavy machinery that assist with the production and movement of our food… and what do we do in these?
We sit in them.
Next week: How to be more active everyday.