Choose life
Family Counsellor is critical - literally for the length and quality of your life. It is time that you educate yourself about the importance of exercise during your entire life. With the rate of obesity, cancer, heart disease, depression and diabetes, we can no longer avoid this essential issue in our lives.
The shadow side of our postmodern lavish lifestyles in our lack of movement of our bodies. Most of us has long commutes in a car, train or airplane. Many of us live in front of computers either at the office or in our homes. To add to a lifestyle that is already sedentary and out of control, the average person watches more than four hours of television each day. This means by the time the person is 65 years old, she or he will have watched nine years of television! Consider how magnificently exercise benefits our health and well-being. Exercise lowers blood pressure, reduces cholesterol and controls blood sugar. It strengthens, builds and tones the muscle, increases energy level, reduces body fat and helps increase the strength of the heart. It prevents heart disease, cancer, arthritis and a host of other serious medical conditions.
You can choose a variety of exercise - from walking, treadmills, tread climbers, yoga or anything that integrates with your lifestyle and hopefully something you love. As you align yourself with something that brings you passion and energy, you create health in both your mind and your body. Exercise gets essential nutrition into our bodies. Exercise alleviates stress, anxiety and depression. It strengthens the immune system, stimulating “natural killer cells” that play a vital role in fighting viruses.
Our bodies are meant to move. Lack of activity contributes to a host of physical and psychological disorders. If exercise is so beneficial and it’s so good for us, why do we dislike it so much? Often exercise has been experienced as punishment and ordeal. We see it as competition and our failure to “measure-up “as defeat. It has been proclaimed that if exercise could be packed into a pill, it would be a single most prescribed and beneficial medication in the nation!
Exercise is a gift for our Mind, Body and Soul. a.m. .m. to 2 p.m on Sept. 3. Festivities include live music, i food, fd and dkid kids events for f everyone to enjoy.