Exercise

2000-3-22 11:40:00

Thanks Samu and Brian for posting the right web page for Paul Bragg's book. The suggested book there by Herbert Shelton is also good.

The Question:
"What are your ideas in using exercise to increase the quality of health? There is a great health drawback to exercise that is often overlooked. Can you tell us what it is?"

We must have a low interest in exercise here. For perhaps the first time no one responded to a question I have given the group. There are a lot of books on this subject so I will quickly give you a few of my thoughts and move on.

For general health it is much better to concentrate on aerobic exercise, or exercises that cause you to breathe heavy and take in lots of oxygen. You can keep in reasonable shape with about 20 minutes of running a day or about 30 minutes of exercise less strenuous.

When you are in shape through aerobics, your heart is strengthened and the small capillaries are opened up allowing more oxygen to get to the cells.

The biggest drawback to this heavy exercise is that you sweat a lot and in your perspiration are many valuable minerals. Therefore if you sweat a lot through exercise and excrete many minerals and do not replace them you could wind up in worse shape health-wise than if you did not exercise at all.

How often have we heard about some health guru dying of a heart attack while running at age 50 or so? This could have been prevented if the person would have replaced the minerals he sweated out.

Another important tip is this. You get as much as 50% more benefit from exercise if you are having fun while doing it. There's something about having fun that causes the secretion of good hormones that benefit health.

If you have kids this gives you a good excuse to play with them. If you like sports, this gives you a good excuse to play. If you have to exercise alone in a boring atmosphere do your best to make it interesting.

Question:
There are three influences that can have a positive effect on health. They are color, music/sound and humor. How do you suppose these three things can influence health?

Also, how can we best utilize the sun for health?