It took me a long time to put everything together. In the mid 1990's I became a vegetarian for health reasons, but I was still drinking beer on a daily basis, and I wasn't doing any exercise. I'm sure I got some benefit out of my vegetarian diet, but a lot of it was off-set by my other bad lifestyle choices.
And while I was not eating meat, I wasn't really careful about what I was eating. I was eating my veggie burgers, but I was eating them on regular white flour buns, with plenty of ketchup. And although I was claiming it was for health reasons, I was eating just about anything as long as it didn't contain meat, or dairy. Looking back now, it all seems so silly of me. I didn't do much research at all, all I knew was that supposedly vegetarians enjoyed better health than omnivores/carnivores did... and maybe "real" vegetarians do have less heart diseases and other ailments, but there's more to it than just not eating meat. I mean you could eat nothing but Twinkies and call yourself a vegetarian.
The point I was trying to make before I went off on that veggie rant is... If your exercising regularly, but still eating badly... or if you have a terrific healthy diet, but you can't be bothered to do anything physically... I think it's time to increase your benefits ten-fold and incorporate the other side of the Health & Wellness equation into your lifestyle.
Daily Physical Activity + Good Sound Nutrition = Health & Wellness
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