The following
program presents principles
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designed to
promote good health and
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is not intended
to take the place of
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personalized professional care.
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The opinions and
ideas expressed are those
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of the speaker.
Viewers are encouraged
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to draw their own conclusions
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about the information presented.
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Hello and welcome
to Wonderfully Made.
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My name is Don
Morgan and I teach
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in the department
Health and Human Performance
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at Middle
Tennessee State University.
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Over the next
number of weeks I am going
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to be talking about
the role that physical
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activity can play
and helping you achieving
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optimal level of
health. As an exercise
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physiologist who is
taught in the area of health
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and fitness for 20
years and conducted research
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on how the body
responds to exercise.
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I have come to
appreciate just how exquisitely
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made our bodies are
and how God has designed
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them to stand
physical challenges, injury,
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illness and all types
of environmental stressors.
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In this upcoming
series of program I am going
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to be presenting
information that will
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highlight the many
health benefits which
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come from being
physically active.
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As well as address some
of the health conditions
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that are caused or
worsened by a sedentary
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lifestyle. In
addition, I hope to be able to
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show how leading an
active lifestyle can
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fit seamlessly
into God's plan for each
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of us to enjoy
vibrant, fulfilling and
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spiritually and rich
lives. When talking about the
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relationship between
physical activity and
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health, it's
important to define what we mean
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by the word
health. To me being healthy
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is not merely the
absence of disease
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and infirmity but
instead it represents the
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combination of
physical, mental, social
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and spiritual well
being. It is my view that
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we are individually
responsible for our health
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and well being, to
the practice of positive
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lifestyle behaviors
like not smoking and
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engaging in a daily
regiment of moderate
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physical activity.
Thus it is our choice
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and no one
else's as to whether or
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not we will decide to
embrace physical activity
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as an integral
part of our lives.
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One of the things I
like to emphasize is that
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physical activity can
be a joyful experience.
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A good example of
this is watching children
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who are engaged in
active play at school
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or at home. As any
parent or teacher knows,
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young boys and
girls have a natural bent
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or inclination
towards being active and
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they seem to find
great happiness in the
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simplest of
activities like riding a bike,
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playing tag, jumping
rope or even just digging
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around in a sand
box for hours on end.
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Well the attraction
of physical activity can
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wane with age. I
know many adults who also
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find the sense of joy
and fulfillment in being
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physically active. I
for one, enjoy running.
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Now I am certainly
not a fast runner and
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I don't run as far
or as long as I used to.
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But at this stage of my
life, with a busy family
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and a job that's
very, very hectic always
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on the go, I am
quite contend to be able
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to run about 40
minutes are so on moat days of
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the week. When I
run, I know I am receiving
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a multitude of physiological and
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psychological
benefits, many of which we will
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detail in future programs.
In addition I also gain
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a tremendous spiritual
blessing when I exercise,
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because it is a daily
reminder that God loves
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me so much that he
created a wonderfully
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made body to
inhabit, that is strong and
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powerful, a body
that enables me to meet
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life's physical
challenges head on each and
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every day. One of the
reasons I look forward
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to my daily run is
that it is one of the times
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each day that I truly
feel energized in the life.
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When I run I can
feel my heart pounding,
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my breathing rate increasing,
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the sweat gathering on my face,
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and the growing
stress on leg muscles as
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I trudge up the
hills that surround my home
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in Middle Tennessee.
There is a reward though
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for my efforts
because as I reach the top of
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the rise and begin my
descend down the hill,
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I am able to
recover, re-gather my strength
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and feel a sense of
solid accomplishment
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that at least on
this day I have been able
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to find the energy
and the strength to meet
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this physical challenge.
As I've began to speak
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to audiences on the
topic of physical activity
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and health, I have
to come realize that not
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only is there a
physical dimension to leading
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an active lifestyle, but
there is also a spiritual
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dimension to physical activity.
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When we are active
we have the opportunity
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and the privilege
of exploring and moving
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about the world that
God has created for us.
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In thinking about
this gift from God,
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I'd like for you to
reflect for a moment
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on some thoughts
found in a wonderful
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little book called the
Adventist Health Style,
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written by David Nieman.
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He writes that there
is a God given design
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in nature for
action and movement.
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Consider the flowers
that open and close daily,
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the circulating
ocean currents and orbiting
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planets or the
powerful onrush of the wind.
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Water is fresh and
clean if taken from a
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rushing stream,
but unhealthful when
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drawn from a stagnant pool.
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What is the spiritual
meaning of these words?
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To me these
statements convey a fundamental
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principle of
Christian living that is when we
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daily energized our
body with physical activity
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we fit perfectly into
God's creation plan for
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the universe, a
plan in which movement
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and activity are the
norm and not the exception.
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Ellen White a
prolific Christian writer also
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speaks about the
link between activity
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and health. In her
book Ministry of Healing,
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she states that,
Action is a law of our being.
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Every organ of the body
has it's appointed work,
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upon the performance
of which it's development
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and strength
depend. The normal action of
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all the organs
gives strength and vigor,
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while the tendency of
disuse is toward decay
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and death. Bind up an
arm, even for few weeks,
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then free it from
it's bands, and you will
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see that it is
weaker than the one you have
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been using
moderately during the same time.
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Inactivity produces
the same effect upon
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the whole muscular system.
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What Mrs. White is
saying here is that
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the health of our
bodies is directly associated
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with them being used
on a consistent basis.
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Conversely, when we
are physically inactive
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for long periods of
time or engaged in physical
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activity on a hit or miss bases,
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our bodies also adapt
to this relative lack of
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physical activity
by becoming weaker and
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more prone to
sickness and disease.
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Unfortunately there
is no silver bullet that
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will magically do away
with disease and death.
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However, performing
regular physical activity
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at a moderate
intensity provides so many
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health benefits that
it's about as close to
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a silver bullet as
you will ever find.
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For those of you who
have embraced inactive
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lifestyle there is
almost an instinctive
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understanding of how
essential and important
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exercise and physical
activity are in warning
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of chronic disease
and maintaining normal
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levels of function.
For those of you however
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who are not as active
as you know you should be,
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I hope that these
series of programs will act
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as a catalyst to motivate
you to become healthier.
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For some this may
be journey you wanted
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to take it
various time in your life,
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but for some
reason you never took that
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first step. For
others you may have begun a
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fitness program in the
past but you didn't stick
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with it long enough to
see any lasting benefits.
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Whatever the case
may be, it is my sincere
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prayer and hope that
the material presented
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in these health
lectures begins to encourage
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you to maintain a regular
physical activity program.
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As you began this
journey, I want you to remember
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that the path to
wellness and good health is
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not a short one,
but instead is a wide
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expanse that can be
travel the rest of your life,
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if that is your desire.
As the evidence will show
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it is not necessary to
be extreme when performing
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physical activity, but
it is essential to be active
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on a moderate and regular basis.
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In order to reap the
major health benefits
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that activity can
provide such as better way
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control, lower blood
pressure and an increase
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in bone density. Such
an approach is consistent
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with the notion that
moderation and physical
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activity can
lead to good health.
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Although I am going to
be presenting information
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that describes the
association between
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physical activity and health,
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I realize how important
it is to translate this
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knowledge into
something that is useful
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and practical and meaningful.
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So over the course of
these thoughts we will
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be mentioning not
only the health benefits of
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physical activity, but
also talking about some
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of the simple ways to
include physical activity
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and exercise into
your daily schedule.
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We will also be
looking at ways to over come
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various physical
activity; looking at ways of
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how to monetary how
much physical activity
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you are actually doing as well.
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As we begin
this journey together
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I strongly believe
that a secret to staying
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on the road to
better health is to find the
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meaningful
reason to adopt and to
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commit to a healthy lifestyle.
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There is no single
perfect reason that
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will work for
everyone, but there is a reason
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that will make sense
to you, a reason that
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you can identity
with. For some it may be
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that in
listening to these programs
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you will finally come
to appreciate the sheer
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enormity of the
health blessings that come
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from adopting a
healthy lifestyle.
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May be you have
decided to become physically
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fit because you
are not functioning
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as well as you
used to, and you want to
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become more fit
and stronger so that
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you can accomplish
the daily tasks of living
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more effectively.
Perhaps you've had a
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recent health
scare and you suddenly
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become aware that the
old adage that without
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your health you have
nothing really is true.
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It could be that
you have become unhappy
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with the way you look and feel.
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And increasing your
level of physical activity
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would be a good
first step toward reversing
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this trend, or it may
be that you've come to
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realization that
your health is important
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not only to
yourself, but also to those
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who love you, care
for you and depend on you.
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The key point here
is that this reason
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whatever it is, needs
to be important to you
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because it will be this
reason that will motivate
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you to walk not
only on the nice days but
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also on days when
the wind is blowing,
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the temperature is
cold and there is bit
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of rain falling. It
will be this reason that
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will give you the
inner strength to turn
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down that second
serving of ice cream
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or that late night
snack. It will be this reason
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that will keep you
from loosing your result
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to stay healthy and
fit when the temptation
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to abandoned this
resolve is difficult to resist.
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Remaining committed
to a daily program of
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physical activity
will help you to determine
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and to develop
an internal complex
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that will guide you
away from a sedentary
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lifestyle and lead
you instead towards
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higher levels of
wellness and total health.
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Did you know that
the Bible speaks well
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of being in good
health. In third John Verse 2,
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God's servants says Beloved,
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I wish above all
things that thou mayest
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prosper and be in
the health, even as thy
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soul prospereth.
Christ is the source of our
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physical and
mental and emotional and
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spiritual health. And
much of his ministry was
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devoted to acts of
healing. God wants us to enjoy
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this beautiful world
that he has fashioned
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and to that end he
has created and designed
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us to be active and
noble. In fact one can make
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the case that living
a sedentary lifestyle
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actually runs contrary
to God's ideal of physical
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activity as the
natural state of affairs for a
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universe that
operates on the fundamental
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principles of
actions and movement.
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The idea that
sedentary living is not a normal
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condition is also expressed,
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in the profess to one
of the chapters in the
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1996 Surgeon General's
report on Physical Activity
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and Health. In this
profess the author state
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that the exercise
boom is not just a fad;
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it is a return to
'natural' activity the kind for
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which our bodies
are engineered and which
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facilitates the
proper function of our
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biochemistry and
physiology sedentary existence,
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possible for
great numbers of people
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only during the last
century, represents a
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transient, unnatural aberration.
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There is an
intimate connection between
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physical and spiritual health.
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And I would like to
tell you about a personal
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experience that
illustrates this point.
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A few years ago I
was speaking about the
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positive benefits of
physical activity to a
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group of church
members who are attending a
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summer retreat in
the Hills of Prescott,
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Arizona. During this
week long health series
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I was part of a
small group of individuals
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who walked in the
morning and evening
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after eating. On
one of our excursions
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I remember walking
for about 15 minutes
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or so until we
reach the end of the back
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road that was surrounded
by hundreds of tall pine
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trees. I
remember that we stopped,
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held hands, sang a
few songs and gave thanks
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to God for this
fellowship experience and for
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giving us the
physical strength to walk,
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to gather in
this beautiful setting
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and to sense His
wonderful presents.
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Throughout this in
prompt to worship service,
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the wind blow
through the trees and that
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sound echoed all around us.
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Now I don't know if
you ever heard wind blow
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through pine trees,
but it is a beautiful,
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heavenly, almost
in describable sound
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like God was
whispering to us that day.
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But we, this
intrepid band of worshipers
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on this day we
are retreated to a
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wonderful
spiritually experience that
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I will never
forgot. Being physically fit
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can allow you to
have experiences that you
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can remember and
treasure for the rest
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of your life. A
few years ago I had the
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opportunity to
visit a former student of
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mine who lived in
Scotland. During this
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visit my student
Ian asked if I wanted
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to take a wee little
hike at the morning prior
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to a talk I was to
give later that day.
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I said fine. I
thought this would be a decent
00:19:10.90\00:19:14.55
substitute for run.
Well when we arrived at
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the walking site,
I suddenly realized
00:19:19.19\00:19:21.85
that the wee little
hike wasn't going to be
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horizontal, but
instead it was a hike up on
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a mountain. So we
started up and soon
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I was drenched with
sweat thinking to myself
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I have a talk to give
later today to a group
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of faculty and
students and I am not gonna
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look very distinguished.
But you know it was
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all worth it
because I have a picture in
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my office of Ian and
I, sitting at the top of
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a mountain on a
blue sky day overlooking
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a sparkling lake. In
recounting this experience,
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I realized that it
was all made possible
00:19:59.29\00:20:02.66
by the fact that I
was fit enough to climb
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that mountain and
view a beautiful expanse
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of God handy work.
In addition to having
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mountain topic experiences,
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being physically
active can allow you to
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experience simple
pleasures that are just
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as meaningful.
Imagine that you are a grand
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parent and that you
and your granddaughter
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are driving down a
country road sharing
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conversation together.
You notice that the sun
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is almost setting
and you realize that your
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view of the sunset
will be magnificent,
00:20:42.28\00:20:44.70
if you can watch it
from the top of a small
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hill located about a
100 yards in front of you.
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You stop the car
and your granddaughter
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bolts out, runs
ahead and calls back to you
00:20:55.00\00:20:58.17
saying come on
grandpa or come on grandma
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you have got to
see this, it so pretty.
00:21:01.95\00:21:05.67
Now I am not a grandfather yet,
00:21:06.97\00:21:09.65
but if this
situation ever happens to me
00:21:09.68\00:21:13.44
in the future I
don't want to say,
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I can't make it up
the hill sweetheart
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you tell me what it looks like?
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Instead I hope that I
am physically fit enough
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to be able to walk
to the top of this hill
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so that I can
stand side by side with
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my grandchild and
watch the beautiful sunset.
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The decision to
adopt the physical active
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lifestyle is a
personal one, one that only
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you can make. Tom
was a 38-year-old man
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with a wife and a young child.
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He was a busy
executive and a job that took a
00:21:56.16\00:22:00.26
lot of his time and
energy and he had just
00:22:00.29\00:22:04.11
become a father a
few years earlier.
00:22:04.14\00:22:06.70
Because of all
these responsibilities
00:22:07.62\00:22:10.42
exercising on a
regular basis was
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not a major
priority in his life.
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The first sign
that something might be
00:22:17.93\00:22:20.00
wrong with Tom's health came
00:22:20.03\00:22:22.14
when he was
playing basketball with his
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friends and he
noticed that his heart was
00:22:24.14\00:22:27.06
beating in an
irregular patterned.
00:22:27.09\00:22:29.50
Although he didn't
feel any chest pain
00:22:29.53\00:22:32.88
or pressure, Tom
decided to visit a physician
00:22:32.91\00:22:37.14
and have a complete physical.
00:22:37.17\00:22:39.39
The doctor said
there was nothing out
00:22:39.42\00:22:42.41
of the ordinary,
nothing was found that was
00:22:42.44\00:22:44.69
strange, so the
doctor send him home
00:22:44.72\00:22:48.41
and told him not
to worry. However the
00:22:48.44\00:22:53.17
next night he began
to experience continuous
00:22:53.20\00:22:56.77
heart palpitations and
became very apprehensive.
00:22:56.80\00:23:01.00
Tom, his wife and
his one year old daughter
00:23:01.03\00:23:05.58
raised to the
local emergency room
00:23:05.61\00:23:07.76
where he spent
hours hooked up to an
00:23:07.79\00:23:10.53
EKG machine. As he lay
in bed trying to remain
00:23:10.56\00:23:16.66
calm and looking
up periodically at the
00:23:16.69\00:23:20.02
heart tracings, he
thought of questions
00:23:20.05\00:23:23.46
a young father
should never have to ponder.
00:23:23.49\00:23:26.18
Ones like am I going
to have a heart attack
00:23:26.21\00:23:29.76
tonight and may be
die? Will I be able to see
00:23:29.79\00:23:34.64
my young daughter grow up?
00:23:34.67\00:23:36.66
How can I leave my
wife with the task of
00:23:37.96\00:23:40.96
raising my
daughter? As he lay there that
00:23:40.99\00:23:45.52
evening he began to
wonder if his lack of
00:23:45.55\00:23:49.47
regular physical
activity had in some way
00:23:49.50\00:23:52.52
contributed to the situation.
00:23:52.55\00:23:54.98
Thankfully after nearly 4 hours,
00:23:56.28\00:23:59.48
the palpitation
subsided and Tom went home.
00:23:59.51\00:24:03.63
Thankful that he had
survived the evening,
00:24:03.66\00:24:06.63
but shaken to his
very chore and uneasy
00:24:06.66\00:24:10.87
about what it transpired,
00:24:10.90\00:24:12.71
the next day transformed by what
00:24:13.68\00:24:16.38
it happened Tom began
walking in the morning
00:24:16.41\00:24:20.05
and evening with
his wife and soon
00:24:20.08\00:24:23.05
he was walking
dozens of miles per week.
00:24:23.08\00:24:26.15
Over the course
of the next 6 months
00:24:27.56\00:24:29.83
Tom lost weight,
his blood pressure fell,
00:24:29.86\00:24:33.38
his cardiovascular
endurance improved
00:24:33.41\00:24:36.60
and his heart
palpitations were judged to be
00:24:36.63\00:24:39.14
benign. Today Tom
really misses a day of walking.
00:24:39.17\00:24:45.06
Tom is a real
person, someone I know well,
00:24:47.58\00:24:52.03
and I believe that
had he had not decided to
00:24:52.06\00:24:56.06
start a regular
routine of physical activity,
00:24:56.09\00:24:58.61
his chances of
having a major health
00:24:58.64\00:25:01.56
setback in the near
future would have being
00:25:01.59\00:25:04.44
substantially
increased, instead he now leads
00:25:04.47\00:25:09.99
an active life that
contributes immeasurably
00:25:10.02\00:25:13.51
to a healthier
lifestyle, the benefits of which
00:25:13.54\00:25:17.75
Tom can now share
everyday with his family.
00:25:17.78\00:25:22.40
Tom's experience
in that emergency room
00:25:24.39\00:25:26.72
was a motivating
factor that caused him
00:25:26.75\00:25:29.50
to make a decision
that changed his life.
00:25:29.53\00:25:32.42
It is my prayer that
like Tom you too will find
00:25:32.45\00:25:37.48
a reason, a reason
that makes sense to you,
00:25:37.51\00:25:40.92
a reason that rings
true to you to begin a
00:25:40.95\00:25:44.85
regular program
of physical activity.
00:25:44.88\00:25:47.10
If Tom can change
his life and find the Joy
00:25:48.41\00:25:52.41
and fulfillment
that comes from being
00:25:52.44\00:25:54.47
physically active, so can you.
00:25:54.50\00:25:57.41
Ralph Waldo Emerson
once said that the first
00:25:57.44\00:26:01.63
wealth is health.
Evidence is mounting
00:26:01.66\00:26:06.48
daily that shows the
people of all ages can
00:26:06.51\00:26:09.67
substantially
improve their health and well
00:26:09.70\00:26:11.57
being by adopting
an active lifestyle.
00:26:11.60\00:26:14.74
Although modern
technology has made
00:26:15.91\00:26:17.81
our lives more
efficient in countless ways,
00:26:17.84\00:26:21.13
it is also made it
much easier to reduce our
00:26:21.16\00:26:24.56
daily levels of
physical activity.
00:26:24.59\00:26:26.73
The time has come for
us to take a proactive
00:26:26.76\00:26:30.34
stance by creating
and taking advantage
00:26:30.37\00:26:33.66
of opportunities
to accumulate small
00:26:33.69\00:26:36.55
amounts of physical
activity throughout the day.
00:26:36.58\00:26:39.57
In closing, I want
you to know that God's
00:26:40.88\00:26:44.41
richest blessing of
physical and spiritual health
00:26:44.44\00:26:47.73
await you as you start
to incorporate physical
00:26:47.76\00:26:51.24
activity into your
life. I hope that as a result
00:26:51.27\00:26:55.18
of listening to
these series of programs
00:26:55.21\00:26:57.55
that you began to
experience the joy
00:26:57.58\00:27:00.05
and reap the benefits
of living an active life.
00:27:00.08\00:27:04.45
As our creator God
knows that our physical
00:27:04.48\00:27:08.36
and spiritual
health thrives only
00:27:08.39\00:27:11.30
when we are active
in both body and spirit.
00:27:11.33\00:27:14.56
It is God who is the
author of healing and
00:27:14.59\00:27:17.76
renewal who
forgive all your inequities
00:27:17.79\00:27:21.04
and heals all your
diseases, who redeems
00:27:21.07\00:27:24.63
your life from
destruction and crowns
00:27:24.66\00:27:27.70
you with loving
kindness and tender mercies,
00:27:27.73\00:27:30.37
who satisfies your
mouth with good things
00:27:30.40\00:27:34.04
so that your youth is
renewed like the eagles.
00:27:34.07\00:27:37.43
God wants nothing
less than for you to
00:27:37.46\00:27:41.83
be in the best of
health so that you can meet
00:27:41.86\00:27:45.64
and overcome the
physical and spiritual
00:27:45.67\00:27:47.99
challenges of daily
living, and in the process
00:27:48.02\00:27:52.01
bless others around
you with the message of
00:27:52.04\00:27:55.84
wellness and good health.
I hope that you will tune
00:27:55.87\00:28:00.21
in next time when we
will talk about how to start
00:28:00.24\00:28:02.95
a physical
activity program and to be
00:28:02.98\00:28:05.70
active until then keeping moving
00:28:05.73\00:28:07.80
step by step towards
better health and fitness.
00:28:07.83\00:28:12.16