I just watched a documentary about a relatively recently discovered tribe of natives in the Amazon rain forest. These people eat only manioc that they grow themselves, and what they can gather or kill in the rain forest.

They don’t have access to candy, cakes, pies, fast food or other junk foods. They drink water, and they walk for miles everyday… See More because they don’t have refrigeration, so they can only gather or kill what can be immediately consumed. For many months of the year, they survive on very little.

Why did I see overweight adults, including one morbidly obese woman just in the one family grouping that was profiled in the documentary? Surely, these people are making quality deposits into their bodies, right?

Being “fit” is now the catch-phrase for having a nice body, primarily to attract (or keep the attraction of) the opposite sex. This new catch-phrase is rooted in VANITY, and that’s why I resist it, personally.

FEW of the people I hear touting the “fitness” thing emphasize being HEALTHY. Those that do often confuse being healthy with being thin. To them, an overweight (and therefore unfit) person cannot possibly, in a million years, be healthy.

This is not all the time true; in fact, I would say it’s not true enough that our culture needs to start thinking differently. There are plenty of people in this country who always eat the right things, get plenty of water, and even exercise hard 3-4 days a week who will NEVER EVER EVER be considered “fit” just to look at them. But, ask their doctors and they’re the picture of HEALTH, internally.

Then, what about the ones who watch what they eat, but don’t exercise at all, and are still considered to be very healthy, medically? Besides reasons rooted in vanity, what incentive does this group have to get “fit = thin”, if they’re ALREADY healthy?

None of this applies to me, personally, because I’ll never be completely healthy or fit again on this side of Heaven. But, I’m just sayin…