An excerpt from "The Slight Edge" about nutrition and how little actions compounded over time can lead to big results...either positive or negative.
DO you know anyone who would eat a quart of Crisco or a pound of butter a day? Does anyone believe that's the way to good health? Of course not. Then why do we act like we do?
You know what you're supposed to eat. We all do. Fresh fruits and vegetables, complex carbs, salads, whole foods, lean meats, more fish and poultry than beef...You know it, I know it, we all know it. So why do so many of us still go out and chow down cheeseburgers and fries every day?
I'll tell you why: because it won't kill us. Not today.
If you ate a cheeseburger and immediately suffered a near-fatal heart attack, would you ever go near a cheeseburger again? I doubt it. It may take twenty or thirty years, but when you add up the compounded interest on all that high-fat, artery clogging dietary mayhem, eventually your poor overworked heart just quits, stops dead. And so do you. We dig our graves with our teeth.
It's easy to eat well. And it's easy not to.
It's not the one junk-food meal; it's the thousands, over time. Eating the burger is just a simple error in judgement. Either way, it's the Slight Edge at work--working for you or working against you.
Invisible results.
Why do you walk past the exercise bike? Because it's easy. If you don't exercise today, will that kill you? No, of course not. You know what you need to do to stay healthy and feel fit and live a long life. Get your heart rate up, a little over normal, for twenty minutes, three time a week. And it's easy to do.
But it's also easy not to do. And if you don't do it today, or tomorrow, or the next day, you won't suddenly drop dead, and you won't suddenly put on twenty pounds, and you won't suddenly lose all you muscle tone and flop around like a marionette with his strings cut off. But that simple error in judgement, compounded over time, will take you down and out.
It is the same with your health, your diet, your exercise, your financial habits, your knowledge, your relationships, your marriage. With anything and everything. With your life.
2 comments:
There is a variety of fitness equipment available, so how do you select which is right for you. There may be other benefits to some kinds of gym and home fitness equipment, exercise bike can also strengthen and tone leg muscles for example, but cardio equipment's primary goal is to raise the heart rate and break a sweat.
Bravo, is simply excellent idea
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