Thank you for your comment.

First we have to define “exercise”.

Movement, the performing of different activities using multiple muscle groups is as you say, essential for life and I agree; “Movement is the natural state for all of us”.

Each of the “muscle activities” which you describe; “outrun dangerous animals, go off hunting for meat, dig for tubers, carry heavy loads ranging from children to firewood and water” were performed intermingled with one another.

• Walking up and down a flight of stairs, ten different times during one day is “good exercise”.
• Walking up and down a flight of stairs, ten times all in one session is “bad exercise”.
• Taking a leisurely, “uneven paced” walk with lots of stops, to bend down and smell the flowers (and perhaps a quick burst run to escape being eaten) is “good exercise”.
• Taking regular pounding, power walks and raising a sweat is “bad exercise”.

Varied, flowing “muscle activity” is good for us.
Repetitious, prolonged “muscle pumping” is bad for us.

Once a muscle is damaged, even with just a bruise then over a period of several years, it will seize. It will contract, shorten and pull upon its bones. The bones will be pulled out of alignment and so too, tendons, ligaments and our other muscles.

The inflexible seized muscle will in time, also cause all its neighbouring muscles to seize. They will contract and pull upon their bones, all of which results in our reduced mobility, painful discomfort and uncontrollable posture distortion.

Just as, it is impossible to go through life without becoming older; it is impossible to live without becoming “damaged”. From being children; we slip, trip and bump into things. We pull muscles in our arms, legs and backs and we twist our necks, knees and ankles.

Once a muscle is seized, it is inflexible and therefore unable to absorb without damage, the impacts of the knocks and bumps of our daily lives. Our body therefore, for “self-preservation” lays down a “protective padding”, a cushioning of “body cell debris” (i.e. dead cells and cell waste).

This “body cell debris” for our “self-preservation” also cements our muscles onto their bones but the price we pay, is an “enforced” lack of mobility.

Nature wants us for our own “self-preservation”, to be cemented and padded.

Today it seems that the whole of the western world, aided by the “clueless” medical profession, has been conned into believing that almost everyone over the age of 40 is overweight.

Surely, not all of us are fat lazy lumps who need to “eat less” and “exercise more”? Yet that is what the doctors and keep-fit experts would have us believe. It is “the only solution” because our fat (which they cannot explain) is a self-induced problem, it is “our fault”. This is nonsense.

Before our “anti-nature” obsession of requiring “young adult thinness” on fully mature adults; “middle-age spread” was considered normal. It was considered so normal that it was given a name; “middle-aged spread”. Now however, a once proudly displayed, “voluptuous” or “portly” stature is looked upon by others with disgust; as if it is an active or rather, inactive “lifestyle choice”.

It is not a choice. It is Nature’s plan for the over 40s.

Pulling (i.e exercise) on a seized, cemented and misaligned muscle does not release the muscle nor the cement, it just rips apart more muscle fibres (hence the muscle pain) which in several years, will create more padding (more fat) and more stiffness. This new damage only shows years after the keep-fit expert has declared victory and left.

Normally it takes decades for the results of our damaged muscles to manifest themselves but by the age of 50, most of us are all the same; we are all overweight, lop-sided and complaining of stiffness, aches, pains, numbness and tingles.

So why does all this happen?

Well as you highlight in your article entitled; “Deep thoughts about death and heart disease” …the inevitable end result of being born is to d** (the D word)”.

We are intended by Nature to age, deteriorate and ultimately, die.

It is Nature’s plan and I can bet because I can’t guarantee that our ancestors also suffered middle-age spread; just as to this day, all mammals still do, including cats and dogs.

It is all part of the “human aging process”. Just as, we walk at the age of one, talk at two and reach puberty in the teens. By the age of 50, most humans have similar body shapes; irrespective of previous life styles.

The accumulations reduce our blood circulation which in turn, reduces the supply of oxygen and nutrients to all the areas of our body. Our body cell feeding, renewal and moreover, “body cell cleaning processes” are hindered.

The “body cell debris” slows down our blood flow and thus ensures that for our own protection, the “body cell debris” is not washed away. More accumulates and the blood slows down and more accumulates.

It is a vicious circle. Our bodies are “blocking up”.

“Body cell debris” will in time also collect around our vital organs, further diminishing their blood supply and physically constricting their ability to function correctly. They malfunction. We die.

BUT there is some “good news”. Nature always compensates our bad news with some good. Nature “pads us up” to protect us because; Nature values the over 40s or rather, Nature values our “knowledge, wisdom and skills”. What a pity, modern western cultures don’t do the same.

But more of that in the book “Exercise is BAD for You”.

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Regarding clinical references or academic support for my theory.

Well, as I am actually saying that the whole of western medicine and the fitness industry are WRONG as you can imagine, I will not be quoting them too much, except the following studies;

16th. August, 2007 the BBC announced that;

“Less than 3 hours of exercise per week, is better for you”.

17th. August, 2007 the BBC announced that;

“More than 3 hours of exercise per week, is essential for you”.

Backache Bothers Billions, Yet to this Day; It Baffles The Boffins of Western Medicine.
In 2008, the BBC reported that;
“Back Pain” is estimated to cost the UK economy, annually £600,000,000.

In 2008 the BBC reported that;
“Researchers had discovered a link between the thickness of a “band of fat” around our middle and with the onset of Alzheimer’s Disease”.

Yet they haven’t a clue “what fat is” let alone, “why it is there”.
This particular band of “body cell debris” which we call a “muffin top” or “love handles” actually pads over damage to our back muscles, the Quadratus Lumborum at L4. And believe it or not, everyone in the world, yes everyone damages this muscle group.

The “thickness” of the band is solely dependent upon the degree of damage and the age of the injury, the longer the time the larger the band.
(If a link has been established then I believe that research should concentrate not on the “band of fat” but on those specific muscle groups in the neck which are reacting to the Quadratus lumborum. These muscles will be restricting our arteries, veins and nerves from having direct access, to and from the brain.)

In 2007 the BBC reported the findings of a US medical study which after analyzing the findings of 23 other medical studies, concluded;
“Surgery doesn’t work”.
“5 to 7 years after pain-relief surgery, all patients reported being in “worse pain” than before the procedure.”

However, despite the fact that this research is from a reputable source, were these findings made “headline news”? – No. Have these pointless, body mutilations stopped? – No.

If a seized muscle is severed then naturally, it will release the pull upon its bones but once that muscle has been repaired (in 5 years), it will be shorter, won’t it? It will pull more upon its bones, it will cause more pain – that’s logical, isn’t it?

(But it’s not logical, if you believe like western medicine that our muscles are nothing more than “soft tissue”, an unimportant body “filler” which may be sliced through and severed with impunity.)

In 2008 the BBC reported that;
“each year 25,000 deaths occur after surgery, due to blood clots in the veins”.

In 2007 the BBC quoted the findings of a jointly commissioned, “Combined Drug Companies Report”, stating that;
“90% of their drugs do not work on 75% of people.”

In 2007, a Senior Executive from one of the world’s largest and leading, Pharmaceutical Companies, declared that;
“90% of their drugs only work on 30-50% of people.”

In 2007 the BBC reported a “headline” from The Times newspaper;
“45% Rise in Adverse Re-Actions to Drugs since 2000.”

In 2008 the BBC announced; the analysis of “47 clinical trials” revealed;
“anti-depressant drugs don’t work and that, patients recovered as well, if not better without them”.
The conclusion stated that;
“World wide; the 40 million current users of these drugs, may as well take a “placebo”.”

In 2007 The Chief Executive of MIND (Mental Health Charity) said,
“Doctors are guilty of a “knee jerk” reaction, prescribing pills which are commonly “long term” prescriptions and have “well-known issues” with “side-effects”.”

In 2007 the BBC reported that: in Britain,
“631,000 prescriptions for “man made”, “mind altering” drugs, were issued to children under the age of 16.”

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And just to finish, here’s a test for you.

Our skeleton of 206 bones is held in place by some 650 muscles.
Our nerves exist within our muscles.
Our blood vessels exist within our muscles.
Tendons are extensions to muscles.
Our muscles are half of our blood circulatory system, a fact known to medical science since the year 1578, the 16th century.

We have Dermatologists (skin), Haematologists (blood), Cardiologists (heart), Neurologists (nerves), Osteopaths (bones), Psychiatrists (brain-drugs), Neurosurgeons (brain-surgery), Dentists (teeth), Ophthalmologists (eyes), Gynaecologists (female reproduction), Obstetricians (pregnancy), Paediatricians (children), Oncologists (cancer) and then there are Pathologists, we even have a doctor for when we are dead!

Here’s the test?
What is the name of the consultant doctor specializing with the muscles?

And finally,

A Quote from Mahatma Gandhi;
Even if you are in a minority of one, the truth is still the truth.

Regards,
Linda.

All mammals, including human beings, are biologically designed to MOVE their bodies. Since we first began to walk upright, homo sapiens have been walking, running, dancing, swimming, lifting, pushing and pulling. Movement is the natural state for all of us.

In fact, not one of us would be here today if our ancestors had not been able to outrun dangerous animals, go off hunting for meat, dig for tubers, carry heavy loads ranging from children to firewood and water.

Do you have any clinical references or academic support at all for this theory?

Thx
Carolyn Thomas

http://www.myheartsisters.org