What Your Heart Just Loves

Funny you should ask, but hearts need tender loving care, healthy foods and plenty of exercise. Really, it’s an old wives tale about human beings in their 60’s and 70’s - they’re not over the hill and their bodies love to walk, jog or run.

Of course, there are heart diseases, joint problems and medical problems that may restrict your exercise, but generally speaking the little ole heart just begs to get out in the fresh air and get a little pumped up.

The probability that our body was created to run, jump and jog is very high. Look back in the stone ages, I’m sure the cavemen depended on their legs to take them to and fro. In order to survive predators, get food and stay out of harms way, there’s a strong possibility that much of their day was spent on the go at a fairly high rate of speed.

So now in 2008, the Surgeon General, the news media and schools are sounding the alarm about the rising obesity in our youngsters. Junk foods can be the culprit to a degree, but the lack of exercise is without a doubt a major problem. Being the computer age, young children spend many hours a week playing games and slowly but surely develop what I refer to as chronic lack of exercise.

As young adults they have not only developed bad physical habits, they wake up feeling wiped out, tired with little desire to face the day, unless they can sit on their fanny. Senior citizens use to do the same thing – retire and just sort of rock their lives away. Now, they’re out an about walking, jogging, running, playing golf or going to the gym to work with a trainer.

The UK needs to wake up to the bottom line fact – if our caloric intake of food (junk or otherwise) is greater than the calories expended the flab is going to start grabbing hold of us like crazy glue to our fingers. Your heart can’t stand this type of physical punishment forever and your mind gets rather sluggish during the process, because you’re tired, irritable and pretty much out of sorts with yourself and the world.

The fix is so easy, eat healthy and take a nice long run or jog for your heart at least three times a week – you’re worth it!