Ok, it’s time to get real with you: most people are starving themselves. No, they aren’t falling dead on the streets from lack of eating. But they are falling apart in a lot of other ways because they aren’t getting true nourishment.
Our bodies need two types of nutrition: food and movement. Some good old-fashioned mall watching will reveal to your eyes how many people are starving themselves by not getting one or both of these.
TYPE 1: FOOD
Let’s get it out of the way. Some people are fatter than others. Ok, so we’ll see this during our mall watching, but let’s look a little closer.
When we aren’t getting proper nutrition from our daily intake, we’ll have other noticeable changes. Look at the skin, hair, eyes, teeth, lips, hands. Dryness, odd coloring, cracked lips, tooth deterioration, drooping eyelids.
What we eat and drink today is what our bodies depend on tomorrow. So how do you want to look and feel tomorrow?
TYPE 2: MOVEMENT
When joints aren’t getting the nutrition they need from regular and various movement, then other signs begin to show. A person might walk stiffly, or without a full gait. Their arms, instead of smoothly swinging at their sides as they walk, are awkwardly rigid and bent up to the chest holding their phones.
Legs that should achieve a full stride are cut short and almost causing them to trip or fall. The foot doesn’t have a gliding heel-to-big toe sequence but flares out and has too much pressures on the inside of the foot. This consequently adds undue weight on the insides of the knees – and did you know this is one of the most common findings in xray imaging of people with knee pain?
WHAT SHOULD I DO ABOUT IT?
Do it daily and make it varied. Your normal everyday should include nourishing food and drink, a diet with vegetables and fruit to feed your body those good minerals and vitamins. And if each day you move in various ways then your joints also get their proper nutrition. This is more than the robot program of: “Walk to car. Drive car to work. Walk to desk. Then reverse.” It includes squatting, twisting, jumping, climbing.
Keep in mind, we’ve just discussed the outward or visible changes from malnutrition. There is a lot more going on inside. And though these effects aren’t observable to others, we can feel them in ourselves. Fatigue, indigestion, joint and muscle pain, labored breathing, difficulty sleeping, and more.
So take your heath seriously, and get that body well-fed and then up and moving!