Walking Instead of Driving

Try to imagine a primitive (pristine) man. How do you picture him? Yes, he has large superciliary bones, a wild face and his scalp is shaped differently then ours. But how do you picture his body type? Slim? Athletic? Average? Can you imagine him walking through the forest with a heavy way of walk, breathing hard, and being much overweight? No? Why? Why not? Imagine that. Or better don't, because your imagination will draw scary pictures. In a second or two that man would be dead. He would be eaten by a wild tiger or a hungry wolf which would overtake him very easily.

Oh, well. It's pretty surprising that he even survived for that long in that pristine forest being like that. And don't worry. The things that you just imagined were not possible to happen. Primitive men were fast, slim (or athletic), and energetic. They were running fast and jumping high and far. May be sometimes they have been eaten by some wild animals, but not because they were slow, overweight and walking heavily. They just should have had be more careful sometimes, I guess.

Originally people were created with two healthy strong legs. Primitive men were slim, strong and fast because of two simple reasons. They walked, they didn't drive cars every time they needed to be somewhere; and they ate only organic food created by nature, not by chemists. I don't encourage you now to start eating raw food, not at all. I think it would be even dangerous. What I want to say is that modern people forgot that originally they were created to walk, not to drive. And of course, they were meant to eat healthy. The fact that people forgot about all of it is especially noticeable in America.

According to National Center for Health Statistics, 66.3 percent of adult Americans (20 years old and over) are overweight or obese. Seventeen percent of American teenagers age 12 to 19 are overweight. Nineteen percent of American children ages 6 to 11 are overweight also. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention remind that obesity remains an important cause of death in the United States, with 75 percent of excess deaths from obesity occurring in people younger than 70 years. Besides that, it says that "obesity is related to about 112,000 deaths each year in the United States".

Some people worry about it, but many don't. I mean, maybe inside of their hearts they wish that things were different, but practically they don't do much about it. In some

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