A picture of health
What does a picture of health look like?
How many times have we heard that term, ‘A picture of health’ and what does it actually mean.
When you see someone who is lean and fit looking and who regularly exercises it is assumed that these people are the picture of health.
In a general sense that used to be true but not all is what it seems. Take the fitness industry for example, you see many people in the fitness industry that look lean and muscular and fit.
What did the lean, muscular fit person do and take to look like they do. Have they taken performance enhancing substance, or have they used amphetamines and other types of drugs to achieve their look.
How has what they have taken affected their health. After many years of using stimulants and performance enhancing drugs these same people develop heart issues, liver disease and kidney problems. Not quite the picture of health.
For me as a trainer, I have always proposed the route of slow, steady and consistent when it comes to getting in shape and staying in shape.
I don’t know if I am the picture of health but I do put health as a high priority. Including my immune health.
In the past 2.5 years since the advent of the Corona virus, health and fitness has been somewhat lost.
From my knowledge and experience in health and fitness it is a scientifically proven fact that health is very much based around lean body mass, balanced nutrition and exercise.
Many diseases are related to healthy bodyweight including immune health. Many cancers are much lower risk at a healthy bodyweight.
Exercise has been shown to increase immunity to many different viruses and it has been shown that people that exercise regularly get less colds and flus.
In fact people with type 2 diabetes and metabolic health conditions have suppressed immune systems and are much more prone to viruses.
Regular exercise has also been shown to improve mental well being as does having close friends and family. In fact gyms are a great place to make friends and socialise with like minded people.
It has always surprised me that during the pandemic; gyms were closed, restaurants and coffee shops were closed (to sit in) and yet the major stores, take away stores and bottle shops were open and Uber eats went crazy.
This removed peoples ability to exercise, socialise and meet with family and friends.
The net result is that obesity is up substantially, depression is on the rise and now it seems people are constantly prone to Viral infections, heart attacks, cancer and all manner of illnesses.
We need to go back to focussing on health and fitness. We need to get back into the gym or back into other forms of exercise. We need to eat better.
We need to talk to friends and family and reform our support networks.
It’s time to become that picture of health again.
Do you remember what it was like to be healthy?
What was your picture of health?
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