Diet and Exercise Always Works

It's full disclosure time. I'm becoming much more of a liberal the older (and wiser) I become. I like Bill Maher (most of the time...he goes overboard on global warming though.) Which ever side of the political spectrum you are on this little rant should be something we should all be able to agree on. You don't need all the medicine being fed to you by the pharmaceutical companies. Proper Diet and Exercise is medicine. On that note, here's a good recent blog post from The Natural Sports Medicine blog. He sums it up very well. We evolved over millions of years to eat a certain diet of meats, veggies, and fruit. But for only the last 2 - 3 generations we have shifted toward a diet of fast food and processed foods. And we wonder why heart disease, autism, diabetes, and obesity are all on the rise. Anyway, if anyone is interested in reading about how our diet has contributed to human evolution check out The Paleo Diet by Loren Cordain. It provides an in-depth analysis of our ancestors diets and how that diet was essential to help us evolve into an intelligent species. But, due to the advances in agriculture (generations ago), and now corporate greed, we have gotten away from the diet we are genetically predisposed to and instead eat a diet of food our bodies mostly recognizes as poison.