Posted on 08/18/2010 8:07:32 AM PDT by Pining_4_TX
The weight-centric approach to health is the most common, but least effective philosophy. A healthy metabolism is more important than numbers on a scale.
Despite what personal trainers, nutritional gurus and the diet industry have been telling you all of these years, weight loss and weighing less is not the key to living a healthy lifestyle. As a matter of fact, there have been studies that show weight loss can increase the risk of premature death from heart disease. But these findings haven’t dissuaded the forces that perpetuate the notion that thin is in.
Rather than worry about numbers on a scale, people need to get metabolically fit. Metabolic fitness, and not the Body Mass Index or some height/weight chart, is the key to people living a healthier lifestyle. I’ve written about the concept of “health at every size,” and at the heart of this notion is metabolic fitness.
Metabolic fitness is when the body has improved insulin sensitivity and is achieved when people eat healthfully and increase their level of regular exercise. Metabolic fitness doesn’t have anything to do with how much a person weighs.
(Excerpt) Read more at healthandfitnessadvice.com ...
So you're realy only there to watch the women? That makes much more sense.
Back when I live din the city and was single I belonged to a health club. I loved the aerobics classes. I'd ride an exercise bike in the back of the room while the ladies did their thing. Made my bike workout go past very quickly.
Or, get off your a$$, learn to enjoy social dancing and be your wife’s hero for life!
As for being healthy at any weight, the additional weight is just not good for your joint health, so I tend to disagree with them on that. You may not die sooner, but you will have "higher maintenance" costs. I do have broader shoulders and wider hips than most women, but that is not from fat, it is genetics. I get many compliments on my curvaceous figure.
However, I do joke that I lost the "big boned" argument when my doctor said my femur was smaller than normal so he had to order a special part ; )
Personally, I am about 5’-10”. I weight 198. I work out 3 times a week, cardio and weights. I’m built like a truck. I’m in good shape. According to the experts I should weigh about 175 to be “healthy”. I didn’t weigh that in the Army, and I’m supposed to weight that now?
I figure I could get down to 190, maybe, and still be healthy.
“...If I were a single woman, I think I’d head to the gun range for my “fitness” training....”
Seriously, shooting can be a good workout. The other day I had a target out at 300 yards and that is a distance my spotting scope will not detect hits. So after a group I just jogged on down there to see/mark hits. Down and back made for a 600 yard round trip that gave me a workout in the 97 degree weather. Four trips totaled 2400 yards or nearly a mile and a half.
Pistol shooting skill comes as much as anything from a slow soft steady trigger pull which is feminine in its very nature. Shooting is a great sport for women above and beyond the self-defense benefit.
She probably lived in the country and, as such, had a low stress lifestyle. Stress, IMHO, plays a much bigger role than anyone in the medical profession will admit. Take a look at a cemetery in a city, then look at one in the country. In the city you'll see lots of people who died in their 40's, 50's and 60's. The one in the country will have lots more folks who died in their 70's, 80's and 90's. (and the ones in the country regularly ate bacon, eggs, gravy, biscuits and other stuff that is supposed to kill you)
Do what most of us active people do when we want an accurate measurement of fitness, use a body fat scale.
BF scales are only marginally accurate.
I look at my abs. If I can’t see the bottom two, I go sprint bleachers until I can.
My wife talked me into taking mainstream square dancing lessons with her about 18 months ago and I've taken to it like a fish to water.
I've also lost over 40 pounds and six inches to my waist.
There was no such thing as retirement. If old folks were too infirm to work the fields, they would still care for the children, cook the meals and knit clothing.
I'm not so sure that the rural lifestyle is less stressful-- just a different kind of stress. Rather than being concerned with extracting their daily bread from their fellow men, they were concerned about extracting it from rocky soil, unpredictable rain, wild beasts who could chew down a summer corn crop, etc.
There was much more reliance on the Lord and your own efforts and less on getting your fair share from employers, workers and the like who didn't feel a sense of shared fate with you.
It is just another reason why you find conservatives to be generally happier and better adjusted than their liberal counterparts.
Yeah, my wife and I took it up 15 years ago when the nest emptied out. We try to get out once or twice a week. This Friday, it’s Cajun 2-step and waltz to Michael Doucet and Beausoliel!
I’m usually the oldest dude there, but the ladies line up to dance with me! (Always looking for approval from my wife, of course!)
See the bottom two?!? I'm not sure I can remember the bottom two.
My wife is very, very pretty. As in, she does nothing and gets hit on randomly -— and she’s frum.
It comes at a reciprocal cost in keeping up my appearance.
Carbs against Cardio: More Evidence that Refined Carbohydrates, not Fats, Threaten the Heart
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=carbs-against-cardio
Probably right about that. With stress on the farm you can usually do something to remedy it. If the tractor breaks or the fences need mending, you fix them the best way you can. Stress in the city comes from things that you have no control over, like noise, crowding, crime, taxes, etc.
Thanks, that was interesting.
Ping
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