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|| health & wellness | LET’S GET FIT!
by Garry Royzman, personal fitness coach
A MARATHON: THINK, ACT, SHARE ACHIEVEMENTS
PUT YOUR BODY
TO WORK
Fitness is vitally necessary for
everyone, especially for those
who work with their heads.
When you sit at a computer for
hours on end, forgetting about
eating or taking a walk, you de-
plete your body fundamentally:
you start to have trouble with
your stomach, your back, your
eyes. Nature embedded in us a
need for physical activity, and
you can’t fool nature: a seden-
tary way of life inevitably leads
to health problems.
W
here to begin? Of course, with the sim-
plest thing of all: fifteen minutes of
morning exercises and a thirty-minute
walk after supper. Our forebears were
wise when they said, “After dinner sleep
a while, after supper walk a mile.” Incidentally, the
advice to take a nap after a noon-time dinner is
good, too: after you eat, the blood floods into the
digestive tract to begin the process of digestion. If
you hurry after dinner to sit down to work, neither
your guts nor your head will benefit: both will be
short-changed. As a result, fat will accumulate on
your hips and belly, and in your head there will only
be lazy stirrings instead of brilliant thoughts.
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