The things you do everyday were given time to get done. You felt they were important enough to be given a slice of your 24 hour day. Are there things you feel are important, but just don't make the cut day in and day out? Things that could possibly alter your mood for the better, increase your life span, reduce the risk of a chronic illness, turn back the clock, make you more mobile for everyday life or get you off certain medications? The things I am talking about are exercise and proper nutrition. Both of these are medicine for the body.
In a recent issue of Experience Life Magazine I read that the average American spends only 33 minutes on food preparation each day compared to 5 hours and 11 minutes watching TV each day. So lets break down this information just a little. Lets say your average American eats three meals and two snacks a day. That is an average of 6.6 minutes spend preparing every meal or snack. Our hope is that this person has their meals already portioned out and pre-packed. But we all know the likelihood of this being true is slim.
Now the five hours in front of the TV. Those five hours are probably spent sitting and eating. That could be five hours of exercise, or three hours of exercise and two hours of food prep for the week, or two hours of exercise and three hours of food prep, etc... You know what I am getting at.
For such an advanced society, we sure do need a slap in the face type wake up call!! We have one life to live. Why not live it the best we can with the least amount of issues.
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