DIET AND FITNESS
You are invited to think about one of the greatest ironies of our life. we buy a car and prize it. We clean it, study it, spend time and money on it and keep it finely tuned. We listen to it, take advice about it and regularly service it. We fuel and water it correctly and for our pains we expect it to respond by running efficiently. And it pleases us and we commend our selves when it does, so why do we not pamper ourselves and our bodies in the same way? It is a fine piece of divine construction that each of us has been given for free at birth. It would surely make very good sense, but no, we are too busy, too lazy or are we just too ignorant? Perhaps that’s what it is. We are not aware of the facts. We haven’t thought that we need to do something about it. No, we’re just taken it all for granted.
But at some time or the other in our lives we’re forced to stop and think because, just like that car, sometimes we break down and come to a stand still or just little bits of us do. Our previously efficient bodies won’t run well until some adjustments are made.
Nature has its own way of resolving matter quite satisfactorily. It stops us in our tracks every now and then and usually at the most inconvient times, and particularly when we’ve been pushing over.
Our engine just a little too hard, having also failed to pay attention to the fine tuning of our bodies or perhaps having neglected to fuel it properly. May be we’ve substituted the wrong type of food because it was more convenient. Unlike a car, our fuel had to provide energy and does our body repair work all at the same time. But like a car we need regular fuel to give us the energy to keep us moving. Our energy is in the form of food containing calories. What is a calorie? It is a measurement of the energy contained in all the food will eat and drink.
