I would like to think I eat pretty well, not that I have stopped or anything. My ex and I typically used to cook our own meals, which usually include a decent amount of fruits and vegetables. Because I didn’t eat too much crap, I’m on the lean side for an American, in fact, I would probably even qualify as skinny.
However, when it comes to exercising, I absolutely failed. Occasionally, I tried to hop on the stationary bike for a while, but I usually ended up going weeks and weeks between doing any legit form of prolonged physical activity. My job also requires me to sit at a desk for extended periods of time, so I don’t move around much.
But considering the greens, I got in my diet and the fact that my body is still slim and athletic am I still a generally healthy individual, or does that lack of exercise meant that I was going to die the same death as a guy twice my weight? You can be skinny without having a lot of lean mass, you can be skinny while also having a relatively high-fat percentage in your body, you can be skinny while also having clogged arteries. So being skinny, in and of itself, doesn’t define or identify a healthy person whatsoever.
If you don’t exercise or watch what you eat, you can be clogging your arteries, causing inflammation based on those foods and increasing your risk of developing numerous chronic diseases, from diabetes to heart disease to cancer. Sitting is more dangerous than smoking, kills more people than HIV and is more treacherous than parachuting.
We are sitting ourselves to death. The chair is out to kill us.