Quite frankly, building great wealth is pointless if you don't have the great health to enjoy it. Sure, the wealth could pay for medical care, but one of the largest causes of death in the United States and elsewhere is hospital contracted disease. No, there isn't a "War on Hospitals," but you might consider why not.
Your best choice is to need as little mainstream medical care as possible. It is much better to spend your wealth on becoming and staying at peak health. Your productivity will be higher, your brain will work better, your level of happiness will help you enjoy life.
And what is the point of life, anyway, if you can't enjoy it.
The ability to adapt and thrive is enhanced by feeling good, feeling strong, with a clear mind. Otherwise, your are trying to swim in mud.
Vibrant, Lifelong Health
There are many components to vibrant, lifelong health. The right food and nutrition probably accounts for 80% of your health. Are you eating organic foods as much as practical? Are you mostly eating non-processed foods. Are you selecting beverages without artificial sweeteners, or even worse, high fructose corn syrup?
Surely I'm preaching to the choir, here. But the temptations to savour those unhealthy foods, often treated or formulated to create addictions, is massive indeed. I'm not alone. It is often a long road to retrain a lifetime of culture, habit, comfort.
Know this: the wealthy elite, even though many reap giant profits from controlling agriculture, pharmaceuticals and processed foods won't take the medicines or eat such food. They know better.
They also know the value of relaxing exercise.
Explore the Differences
Which brings us to a recent scientific article, published by the American Heart Association, which explored the differences between running and walking.
The study analyzed 33,000 runners and 15,000 walkers.
According to Science News, researcher found that "the same energy used for moderate intensity walking and vigorous intensity running resulted in similar reductions in risk for high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, and possibly coronary heart disease."
"Walking and running provide an ideal test of the health benefits of moderate-intensity walking and vigorous-intensity running because they involve the same muscle groups and the same activities performed at different intensities," said Paul T. Williams, Ph.D., the study's principal author and staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Life Science Division in Berkeley, California.
Health Benefits Comparable
"The more the runners ran and the walkers walked, the better off they were in health benefits. If the amount of energy expended was the same between the two groups, then the health benefits were comparable," Williams said.
This is great news for those of us who love the gentle pace and relaxation of walking, versus the more sweaty and often painful (if you don't reach the endorphin level through time and intensity) running regime.
And it gets better.
Running reduced risk for first-time hypertension by 4.2 % and walking by 7.2 %.
Running reduced first-time high cholesterol 4.3 % and walking 7%.
Running reduced first-time diabetes 12.1 % and walking 12.3%.
Running reduced coronary heart disease 4.5 % and walking 9.3%.
In every case, walking provided the better result.
Sustainable Activity
"Walking may be a more sustainable activity for some people when compared to running, however, those who choose running end up exercising twice as much as those that choose walking. This is probably because they can do twice as much in an hour," Williams said.
So for the go getter entrepreneurs who love the adrenalin rush, running can be just the thing.
Yet one of the well known keys to developing real wealth is not necessarily endless hours of hard work, but using the mind. What better way than during a long walk.
One of the richest men in history, Andrew Carnegie, spent only a few hours a day running the United States Steel Corporation, and took the summers off, vacationing in Scotland, where he was born.
Built His Wealth
It was his ideas that built his wealth, not hard, intense labour.
Then there is Brenda Ueland. She was one of the most prolific authors in history, with more than a million words in print.
"For me, a long five- or six-mile walk helps. And one must go alone and every day," she wrote in her book If You Want to Write:.
"I have done this for many years. It is at these times I seem to get re-charged. If I do not walk one day, I seem to have on the next what van Gogh calls 'the meagerness,' " or depression.
"I Feel Happy"
"After a day or two of not walking, when I try to write I feel a little dull and irresolute... But when I walk I look at the sky or the lake or the tiny, infinitesimally delicate, bare, young trees, or wherever I want to look, and my neck and jaw are loose and I feel happy and say to myself with my imagination, 'I am free,' and 'there is nothing to hurry about,' I find then that thoughts begin to come to me in their quiet way."
But take your pick. Run or walk. Which ever makes you happy. Either way you benefit from increased good health, quiet time to sort through ideas that can build your wealth and security, or build your dreams of adventure.
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