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Basic Health Care starts with YOU!

Humans were meant to move. Bones were meant to handle stress of weight. Joints were meant to provide a range of motion. Muscles were meant to provide motion to our body parts. And our heart was meant to pump blood for the purpose of fueling the continuity of this motion. Our ancestors used to hunt animals, dig roots, gather fruits, build shelter, etc. Staying active was their life.

Today, it seems some of us are moving just barely enough to keep from dying, which I guess is better than not moving at all. In this day and age, especially in more developed nations, people hardly ever walk anymore. There is no need since cars exist and time is valuable. Food is readily available in stores. For most people, shelter is bought, not made. Most developed nations are filled with white-collar employees who wake up early in the morning, commute to work through traffic, spend an average of 8 - 9 hours sitting at a desk absorbing light from fluorescent bulbs and/or cathode ray tubes (aka your computer monitor unless you use an LCD screen). And then right around when the sun sets, these same people travel back home (through traffic once again), eat dinner, and before you know it it's time for bed. And oh yeah, 7 - 8 hours later the process is repeated.

It's almost impossible to live as our ancestors did if you want to live with society, enjoy the technological fruits of modern civilization, and/or don't have a very strong yearn to live as our ancestral man did. And so, the best thing modern man can do is to take what little time he has left in his hectic, mind numbing day and make the most out of it by taking his body and putting it into physical motion. Go out for some regular exersize to care for your health needs.