The Healthy Way

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What some Americans like about Health that others do not As we take a look at the world around us we find that there are more unhealthy people then there were say fifty years ago. Back then there were smaller portions and not as many cars (if any). We walked to our destination and managed to hunt and gather. As a society we were much more active back in the 1900’s then we are coming into the 2000’s. Today we don’t have to hunt or gather we have cars to take us everywhere, and more often than not we sit around and have all of the things we want and desire... Except for one thing that only some people strive for, to be fit and healthy to have hunter/ gatherer type body. But how did we get so unhealthy? More importantly how do we get out of it? One of the ways we got here is that its not entirely our fault our genetics predetermine what our weight is going to be, how healthy we will be and the way we are raised by our parents and what hormones they’ve given to us to make us the way we are. We live our life so differently from one another that its all different for everyone. Are we eating the food necessary? Are we getting the right amount of exercise for our body type? All of these will be determined by the way we live, how we live, and what job we want in this lifetime. Last but not least do our hormones have much to do with the way we eat, what we eat, and how often we eat? As we grow up from being a child to going into adulthood our hormones take control of the way we act and the things that happen to us during puberty certainly it just might have a control over the way we eat. Losing weight isn't easy, and it's harder still when your genes are working against you. Many different genes affect the way your body works, but one i... ... middle of paper ... ... everyday and health we heard yesterday is all old news as the health we hear today becomes the fashion of health. Our heredity determines how we eat and greatly we have discovered one of the genes that causes what our weight will be. For APOA2 will be the next generation as exercise will quickly become apart of the old generation the one we live in right now. This may not go away in fact the things that we keep from the past are always going to be the right way to go, but who says we’re moving forward? For all we know we could be moving backwards. The more we as a society watch television the more weight we put on the best way we can change all of this is to go outside more, go hiking, swimming, going on bicycle rides. we put ourselves in our body we have to be the ones to take ourselves and make it a great place to live for we will be living there our entire lives.

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