Since I was an engineering student, I have a deep appreciation for math and numbers. I see no reason why I can't incorporate my love of mathematical equations into my new career as a healthcare professional.
This article's title is a mathematical formula. Even though it doesn't explain any engineering concept or theory, it is nonetheless true. Eating right and getting regular exercise are the only ways to lead a healthy life. Nutrition and exercise are as crucial to a healthy lifestyle as Einstein's famous equation, E=MC squared, which states that energy cannot exist without mass or velocity squared.
When it comes to nutrition and exercise, or at the very least an active lifestyle, they work together. For them, physical health is paramount. This life will include not only a long life, but also a high quality life (quantity.) The ability to live a long life is an advantage. Many times, I've explained to others that I don't do what I do for a long life, but rather for a good one. The fact that exercise extends one's physical lifespan has been proven time and time again by countless academic studies. Humans were designed by God to do work. Not in the sense of doing something for money, but as an alternative to a sedentary existence. Unfortunately, today's technologically advanced society has rendered most forms of physical exertion unnecessary.
While our ancestors worked long and hard, our lives today are crammed full of responsibilities at work, home and family. Today's children are involved in so many school and after-school activities that parents barely have any "alone" time to attend them all, even if they want to. Many parents are forced to work two or more jobs to make ends meet. Many forms of physical activity have been rendered obsolete thanks to technological advancements in recent decades. We don't walk as much as our ancestors did because many families own multiple cars. To be honest, we'll do whatever it takes not to walk. Take note of your frantic pursuit of parking spaces as close to the mall entrances as is physically possible. Technology has made physical labor a dinosaur. Human muscles no longer perform nearly all of the physical work that is now done by computers and machines. Workers are confined to pushing buttons and glancing at computer screens to ensure that machines are doing their jobs properly.
And when we do get some down time, we have 24/7 satellite TV, the internet, or our cell phones to keep us occupied. What do we have left? A health formula in which physical activity has no effect. (A healthy lifestyle does not include a lack of
sentin complex and no physical activity!) There is no healthy lifestyle if either 'exercises' or 'nutrition' are missing, or God forbid both. Television wasn't on all the time when I was growing up. There was no cable or satellite service. Over-the-air transmission was cut off at around midnight. The internet and any kind of home computer were obviously nonexistent at that time. Also, there were no video games to play at the time. Every one of these is a cutting-edge, physically debilitating invention.
Because there was no Internet, cell phone, video game, or surround sound to keep us occupied as children, we played outside. Among the activities we enjoyed while playing outside were skating, riding milk crate scooters powered by our legs, and numerous other activities involving a rubber ball and hula hoops. This list is by no means comprehensive. Because we spent so much time playing outside as children, none of us were overweight or otherwise unhealthy. We quickly expended all of the calories we took in during the course of our normal daytime activities. Obesity was not as prevalent in our youth as it is today.
At the time I grew up, physical activity wasn't just for the little ones. Adults were also more active. Why? Because many of the machines we use today didn't exist back then. Alternatively, only a limited number of them were produced. Let's take an automobile as an example. Although there were cars in the past, there were not as many as there are today. Those families that did own a car, on average, had just one. That meant that people walked a lot more in the past than they do now. My mother used to walk to the supermarket every week to buy her groceries.
