Sandy KumskovActive, Stable People Live Longer
September 15th 2008 22:44
Category: What's Really Good For you
The 50 year long Baltimore Longitudinal Study on ageing, which is tracking over 2300 people through their lives, has released its latest findings.
Apparently if you're calm and active, you'll live longer.
That confirms other shorter-term studies that show moderate exercise improves the quality of your life.
So in terms of women and body image, we can make some extrapolations:
We know that starvation causes increased stress on the body and the mind. Virtually every organ and cell of the body is negatively affected by prolonged stress, and any calorie-limiting diet will cause that stress.
A dieting person is far from calm. With every cell in the body laser-focussed on finding more food, the dieting person is fighting a growing obsession with food, while trying to get on with their day. That causes stress. Your body loses muscles along with any incidental fat it might lose; that causes stress and over the long term, reduced efficiency for your organs. Your heart is one big muscle, remember. And is IS negatively affected by weight loss.
Eventually doing what your body demands, that is rebound bingeing (remember the Minnesota Study told us the rebound bingeing lasted an average of 5 weeks!), causes a massive guilt trip for dieters, at their "weakness". And that causes stress.
Along with the guilt comes a tremendous sense of failure, and that's compounded as one diet after another fails, as they must. And that causes stress.
And there are other stresses associated with this cruel dieting lie: disappointment, shame, fear, and so on - it's so complex, if you've ever done this cycle (and the vast majority of women have), then you'll know what I mean.
Over years, that's a LOT of stress.
That is shortening your life.
Solution: start learning to love who you are, what you do, and nurture that body you live in; feed it good nutritious food and loving messages. You'll be amazed at what the results are!!
Apparently if you're calm and active, you'll live longer.
That confirms other shorter-term studies that show moderate exercise improves the quality of your life.
So in terms of women and body image, we can make some extrapolations:
We know that starvation causes increased stress on the body and the mind. Virtually every organ and cell of the body is negatively affected by prolonged stress, and any calorie-limiting diet will cause that stress.
A dieting person is far from calm. With every cell in the body laser-focussed on finding more food, the dieting person is fighting a growing obsession with food, while trying to get on with their day. That causes stress. Your body loses muscles along with any incidental fat it might lose; that causes stress and over the long term, reduced efficiency for your organs. Your heart is one big muscle, remember. And is IS negatively affected by weight loss.
Eventually doing what your body demands, that is rebound bingeing (remember the Minnesota Study told us the rebound bingeing lasted an average of 5 weeks!), causes a massive guilt trip for dieters, at their "weakness". And that causes stress.
Along with the guilt comes a tremendous sense of failure, and that's compounded as one diet after another fails, as they must. And that causes stress.
And there are other stresses associated with this cruel dieting lie: disappointment, shame, fear, and so on - it's so complex, if you've ever done this cycle (and the vast majority of women have), then you'll know what I mean.
Over years, that's a LOT of stress.
That is shortening your life.
Solution: start learning to love who you are, what you do, and nurture that body you live in; feed it good nutritious food and loving messages. You'll be amazed at what the results are!!
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