One of the most important forms of movement is aerobic activity. Aerobic does not just mean leaping and dancing in tights. The word aerobic actually means “motion that requires the use of air/oxygen.”  The aerobic cycle kicks in approximately fifteen minutes into a sustained movement that is increasing your heart rate. These movements include such activities as going for a brisk walk, running, bicycling, mowing the grass (with a push mower, not a tractor), raking, skating, or swimming.

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One of the many preposterous aspects of the weight-loss phenomenon is the idea of dieting without exercise. You’ve seen the ads. Lounging around the house eating Big Macs, yet losing inches, sounds wonderful, but the reality is that losing weight without increasing muscle means only that you’ll fit in a smaller coffin.

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Contrary to popular outside-in, mechanistic opinions on wellness, the best way to build strong bones as you age is not through swallowing as much pasteurized dairy product as you can handle and taking estrogen, phosphomax, and other anti-osteoporosis drugs every day for the rest of your life. With the chemicals and hormones present in nonorganic cow’s milk, all of these recommendations are diametrically opposed to Essentials #1 and #3 for Maximized Living.

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You are born in a “C.”  Developing and curled up in the womb, your spine is simply C-shaped until you get out and start moving.  If you’ve got kids, you know that once the baby is released into the world, they start to hold their head up.  While doing so, they’re supposed to be taking the top of the C (the neck) and creating a reverse C or what is called the cervical “lordosis.”  Once that reverse C is formed, they (or what was once -you) get stronger and begin crawling. 

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We hear a lot about how important it is to include fiber in our diet but many of us don’t understand why we don’t get enough, what good sources of fiber are, or how fiber can help us.

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