Amazing Research for Fitness!

With the continuation of fitness month, I wanted to share some research and some comments on a paper I came across in the Journal of the American Medical Association. It read "exercise and breast health- a matter of life and death." In the article it compared 3000 women who were diagnosed with breast cancer. They were categorized by being active versus inactive. What the research found was that as little as one hour per week helped to promote survival, while 3 to 5 hours reduced the risk of death or RECURRANCE by a whopping 50%! I need to comment on a couple of things regarding this study. What is amazing is the power created by engaging in ongoing movement and exercise. In fact, these people were well below the weekly requirement for optimal health, and still managed to achieve a 50% reduction! Imagine if our goal was to be at optimal levels! What a concept. This is not a surprise to the Veressent community, as we are well aware, movement is an essential : ). If you are not moving, your dying. Period.
What boggles my mind though, is the topic of what is being researched. Medical scientists unfortunately look at specific amounts of exercise for specific diseases...Problem! We need to focus on what are the daily movement requirements to be healthy and vital and optimal, not what do we need at minimum to prevent a specific disease. Who the hell knows what you're going to develop anyways?! Could you image saying in ten years, well I exercised one hour a week to prevent colon cancer, but I'll be damned I got heart disease, if I would have known that I should have exercised 30 minutes a day like the research said for heart disease. Do you see how this type of research will never give us healthy people? How are you going to know what disease to pick to try to prevent?? It makes no sense! A family history? Research in the field of epigenetics shows consistently that family diseases are a cultural myth. The very concept disempowers us as human being to have control over our health destiny. You may, through genetics have a predisposition to a particular disease, but the genes for the disease are turned on through your lifestyle choices and your belief about the disease. Only 0.02% of disease are actually a genetic mutation. The rest is through our choices. As Deepak Chopra once stated, there is no scientific evidence that we need to be sick. A wellness based, Veressent lifestyle makes sense. Meeting all the essentials for optimal health, vitality and exceptional living. A healthy structure and nervous system, good eating and essential supplements, lots of exercise, rest and rejuvenation, positive outlook on life and a passionate, exciting, purposeful life. This is what OPTIMIZES your health and life potential. That has to be the focus for future generations if we are to evolve out of this disease treating society. What we are doing and thinking is not working. We need to focus our attention on a life of Veressence! Let's start by maximizing our movement as LIFE IS MOTION AND MOTION IS LIFE.