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Pastimes : Heart Attacks, Cancer and strokes. Preventative approaches
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To: Doren who wrote (3710)2/23/2009 3:52:32 PM
From: Doren  Read Replies (2) of 39344
 
Reason I asked about evolution and chemistry is:

If you accept evolution as a "plausible theory" then you might make the inference that human beings evolved around the available food.

The medical business evolved around repair - drugs and surgery and doctors rarely take into account equilibrium - why? I don't know.

If you've ever backpacked you know food is hard to get. I base my diet on what a guy on the veldt would find:

What is always available are roots and leaves - vegetables. Roots are available year round. Lots of this in the diet.

Next if you are lucky enough to find a fruit tree you eat as much as you can, you hang around for awhile when things are ripe, and carry off as much as you can when you leave.

Bugs are easy to find but deer and birds are tough. Therefore your physiology craves the fat and meat, but it is not so great for us to eat it all the time. Oil is non existent.

Sugar is non existent except at the top of 200 ft trees (honey).

Grains are very small and take hours to prepare. Not much of this in the diet.

I'm a long time vegetarian.

Exercise, everyone knows that. But think about what you'd be doing on the veldt. Reaching, bending, twisting to get that ripe apple or in between rocks to grab that lizard. Swimming, walking in a stream.

Now days we sit in front of our work and bend over for hours, even construction workers.

So I do yoga. IMHO the best exercise ever devised. I've been in yoga classes with buffed up athletes (Lakers) who have a hard time. It exercises all your muscles, lengthens muscles, tendons and ligaments, improves cartilage and it exercises the one big muscle that isn't attached to a bone - your diaphragm which provides 90% of your lung capacity muscle.

I also think cycling is great for the lower body and swimming is great for the upper body. Because both are kind to the cartilage. That guy on the veldt spent most of his time walking on soft dirt grass. Easy on the cartilage.

That's about it. I'm 55, can drive up to 7000 ft in the Sierras and hike straight up 2000 more feet the same day. I go on 25 mile bike rides regularly. I take no drugs for my cholesterol or anything else. I can bend over and touch my nose to my knee and put my hands flat on the ground.

Eat your vegetables and do your yoga.
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