Exercise for the joy of feeling good and getting better. Eat right with the intention of fueling your body with the things it needs to perform.
Interpretation
Engage in exercise and healthy eating for both enjoyment and improvement in well-being.
This quote emphasizes the importance of exercising not just for aesthetic goals, but for the joy and health benefits it brings. Eating well should also be viewed as a means to nourish the body, enhancing its performance and overall quality of life.
In practice
During a fitness workshop, I shared this quote to inspire attendees to view exercise as a joyful activity rather than a chore.
Bad habits are easy and discipline is hard-and βeasyβ is where people gravitate. A good work ethic requires a painstaking daily effort. Easy typically leads to a life long list of problems but the discipline of having a plan leads to an extraordinary rewarding life. In the long run, the easy way makes life harder and the harder way makes life easier.
Excuses are a list of self imposed obstacles that prevent you from having a better life.
Why do people refuse to vaccinate their children against measles or whooping cough? In many cases, because they have never seen measles and have no idea what it might do.
...the gym is a kind of wildlife preserve for bodily exertion. A preserve protects species whose habitat is vanishing elsewhere, and the gym (and home gym) accommodates the survival of bodies after the abandonment of the original sites of bodily exertion.
That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.
Gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals, admirals and philosophers have all died of gout.
We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.
If you want to know the value of vaccines, just spend some time in a clinic in Africa. The faces of the mothers and fathers say it all: vaccines prevent illness and save lives.
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