How to Eat, Move, and Be Healthy!

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“Great speakers have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.” –Albert Einstein

In the game Jenga, sets of 3 wooden blocks are stacked one on top of the other until a rectangular structure, 18 levels high, has been constructed. These 18, three-block levels are strong and sturdy at the beginning of the game, however, as players take turns removing blocks and placing them on top, creating new levels, the entire tower begins to lose its integrity. The game is over once a person pulls a block and the structure topples over. Jenga. This game, though fun and challenging, can be a fairly accurate representation of people’s lives. The structure, made up of its various levels, can represent the human body, with all of its systems and functions. The body is designed to be strong, stable and healthy, but through lifestyle choices, can get broken down. If a bodily system gets broken down too much, the whole structure can collapse.

This month’s book review is on Paul Chek’s How to Eat, Move, and Be Healthy! Chek is a holistic health practitioner, neuromuscular therapist, and corrective exercise specialist, with over 30 years of experience in helping others achieve greater physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health, fitness, and high-level athletic performance. His approach focuses on treating the body as a whole; including nutrition according to one’s metabolic type, stress, sleep / wake cycles, nutrient timing, digestion, exercise, and fungus and parasites.

The book begins with each reader taking a nutrition and lifestyle questionnaire. The twelve-page self-assessment provides each reader with his or her own scores in theaforementioned categories. These scores allow people to appropriately prioritize which section they need to focus on most, as well as read first. The goal is that every four weeks the test will be taken again with the scores progressively improving as individuals engage in more and more healthful behaviors.

 How to Eat, Move, and Be Healthy!is packed with mind-blowing information regarding nearly everything American society has accepted as being “true”, without really taking the time to think about it or look intoit. Examples of this include how humans are genetically different from one another, and therefore, should eat natural foods that best fit their biological make up. Doing this, nearly regardless of the number of calories, will often result in far greater impacts on health and wellness than any 100-calorie snack could ever bring. One other example is how the invention of the electric light bulb could have been one of the most health-damaging events in human history due to its complete destruction of the natural human sleep/wake cycle.

I recommend this book for anyone looking to take more of a holistic approach to living a healthy lifestyle. By improving the systems and functions of the body that need it most, the whole structure becomes stronger and more stable. It only takes one weak link before the whole tower crumbles. Jenga.

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