Have you done your health chores?
Several generations ago there was no need to exercise. Churning butter, washing clothes, kneading bread was enough to keep her arms from getting flabby. Similarly, she didn't worry about getting enough sleep. When the sun went down, not a whole lot could get done by candlelight, and nobody had to stay up to watch David Letterman's top 10.
Although modern life has made work less odious, the cost is that we now have to add new chores to the age old list.Here are the top five modern health chores.
1) Exercise - some type of strenuous weightlifting that leaves you huffing and puffing and sweating (I recommend a book called The Power of 10."
2) Sleep - your body requires 7-9 hours minimum a night, more during the winter. Why do you think nights get longer in Winter? Mother Nature hates you?
3) Cook and eat real food - for your great grandmother there was no option. Now you can go weeks without eating real food.
4) Drink clean water - do I really have to explain this one?
5) Get a life - a social life that is. iPods, Nintendo, computers, home work, and big houses with individual bedrooms have all conspired to separate us. Families and friends used to sing together, play together, fight together, eat together, dance together (Can you imagine going to your child's high school dance? Neither can I). We don't even do therapy together anymore