Challenge #2 - Exercise

Do we need exercise?

¨The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.¨

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Diet and Nutrition play a big part in achieving optimal health and wellness. But we all know that there is more. I believe the healthiest people have found their balance of diet, nutrition and activity/exercise. Nutrition not only fuels us, but also helps us build and maintain all the structures in our body. Burning fuel from the food we eat, helps to energize all the structures to do the jobs they were given. Thus, we need to achieve and maintain a healthy balance between diet/nutrition and activity.

But, and there are always Butts at Common Sense Health and Wellness,

You can’t outrun a bad diet, and I want you to consider that Ultra-processed food is the new tobacco.

So let’s think about it.

If we don’t consume enough nutrition or have enough stored fuel in our fat cells we will not have the energy to fuel our body, nor the materials to maintain it. If we consume too much nutrition on a chronic basis, we may run out of safe places to store the materials, meaning our fat cells can no longer accommodate more fuel to store. This OVERLOAD can cause inflammation and many other disease processes.