You don’t have to kill yourself to stay alive. Who knew? From Charles Hugh Smith at oftwominds.com:
A daily walk isn’t sexy in terms of attracting eyeballs in a hyper-competitive culture, but it works.
Our culture glorifies competition and extremes in every sphere. This plays out in fitness, which has been folded into extreme sports, as if fitness is by its very nature a competition in which the “winner” is more fit than everyone else.
Fitness is just fitness. Yes, we can improve or backslide, but it isn’t a competition. Two recent articles in Scientific American (June 2025 issue) add to the already-immense pile of studies revealing the benefits of daily moderate exercise.
Before we consider the studies, we must first run them through a junk science filter.
The proliferation of junk science is problematic, but fortunately it’s not that difficult to discern red flags. Junk science presents a superficial envelope of science that’s been gamed to reach a conclusion that serves specific financial / career interests. Junk science has a number of shared markers:
1. What entity funded the “research” and for what implicit / hidden purpose is purposefully muddled or hidden. So when Corporate America sets up a front “research organization” to produce junk science in support of its products, the links back to the corporate sponsors are well-cloaked.
I watch what I eat and the amount while going for a walk across several subdivision sectors after each meal.
Now fitting into HS jeans and I’ve found about $200 and several cannabis packs.
A luxury that is not on the menu during Bolshevik Color Revolution 2025.
When in doubt I go for a heel & toe no matter what the hour or weather.