The Obesity Pandemic

How can you become a good mover if you are too fat to move? With 2/3rd of adults and 15% of children under ten being overweight, confused by jargon which claims to disclose what additives and preservatives are lurking in food, the consumer needs a PhD in nutrition to make sense of it all. 

Blind Eye

James Baldwin described racial relations in the 1950's with this anecdote: Two friends are sitting in a room and they both know that one of them has just murdered his mother and put her body in the wardrobe. They are sitting there but cannot speak to each other in case one of them accidentally mentions anything to do with the body in the wardrobe. In a similar fashion people in the developed world turn a blind eye to the food industry. Where can we find real, healthy living food that is not infected, packaged, preserved, frozen-and-refrozen? What is the truth about the meat industry and food production?

Eating is the most basic need for survival but now cooking has become entertainment, TV shows, hobby, art, and competitive sport, aiming to fulfill all human desires. Is today's Western attitude to feeding oneself perhaps still at a Baroque, maybe even at the Roman stage of cultural evolution? Our very clever civilisation has forgotten that the purpose of eating is to maintain the shape and strength of the body. With this in mind it seems inappropriate to encourage fat people to lose weight with non-stop tantalising coloured images of mouthwatering dishes.

What fitness experts have failed to understand is that today's food industry is the cause of the obesity pandemic. Alongside the food scandal destroying human health there looms the fitness industry taking advantage of its victims. No machines, pills, no amount of organic recipes will help people get back to normal unless they have a faint understanding of their own day-to day body movement habits. My aim in the EasyFitness series is to teach body awareness and physical intelligence. Those extra pounds then drop off naturally.

The Sue Adams approach is different. I teach people how to become such good movers that they feel like dancers among the crowds. The focus is taken away from the food issue altogether and re-directed towards the body.

We need to start at the beginning of the movement adventure and build a solid and effective posture to carry your body through its challenging life. As with any building, we begin at the base. Starting at the feet, the foundation of your postural edifice, I shall rebuild you from scratch. But before that please quickly look a few basics vital to a positive and efficient approach to good movement habits.

As balance is so vital to weight carriage, we'll build your body in 3D geometry. To cover the entire 3 dimensional spectrum of mobility you move through the Frontal, Transverse and Sagittal planes which I have renamed "Yes", "No", and "Maybe" for convenience. You can feel the motion through these planes by moving your head as in nodding "Yes", "No" and, "Maybe" (ears towards shoulders).

Yes, No and Maybe

Why not check if your head is placed properly above your spine right now. On the "No" movement, when you look sideways as far as possible, you should see the top of your shoulder, not your chest. If this is not happening for you then go back to the neutral position (look straight ahead) and pull the upper back and base of the neck backwards and up while keeping the chin down. It feels like someone is pulling you up by a high ponytail. Now move your head as if to say "No" again and notice the change. Can you see the top of your shoulder? But I'm jumping the gun. We shall deal with the neck and head in greater detail in a future hub leading to the Natural Facelift.

Correct Posture, Flexibility and Weight-Loss are interdependent. Short ligaments prevent correct alignment as can be seen in the necks, shoulders, backs and knees of those who have lost the ability to even squat because their tendons are too short and their bellies too fat!

Did you know that you don't actually have to 'shrink' with age. Rather like an accordion, older people appear to become shorter because, over many years of focusing down towards busy hands, gravity has diminished the sponginess between the vertebrae and 'folded' them somewhat. But do not despair, I have ways and means of using gravity to the body's advantage rather than its detriment as you can see in further hubs in the EasyFitnes series.

On the EasyFitness hubs you can learn to improve posture, flexibility, strength and agility, become aware of your day-to-day movement habits and become more comfortable, coordinated and feel secure in your body. Weight loss then automatically occurs as a consequence of improved movement habits.

EasyFitness  is a list of all the hubs in the series so far to date. You can see how we work progressively up the body, starting from the base, your feet, all the way up to your crown with a few necessary digressions on life style along the way.

Contents

1. How to Become a Good Mover ( this hub - introduction)
   
2. The Feet You Walk On
3. Shoes Are Not Made For Walking
4. No More Swollen Ankles And Stiff Knees
5. Redesign Your Work Station
6. How To Hold Your Pelvis To Get Rid Of A Fat Stomach
7. How to Read Your Dates Body-Language
8. WEIGHT CONTROL with the Sneaky Fast Plan
9. Hanging Upiside Down
10. Ankle and Wrist Weights
11. Natural Facelift

This is the 1st hub in the EasyFitness series where you can find all the episodes I have written so far on Fitness, Weight Loss and Physical Intelligence.

Thank you for getting to the bottom of my first hub. Stay tuned, or should I say toned? Please comment on what you have read so far. I'm all new to this and cannot do it to your liking without feedback.

See you soon,

Sue