What is a modern healthy lifestyle: a necessity dictated by time, or a trap in which everyone fell

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

PP, KBZhU, marathons, detox, smoothies, food instructors, fitness watches … All this is served under the sauce of a healthy lifestyle, supposedly, any self-respecting modern person will take good care of his body and health, adhere to PePe, do not eat gluten, consider KBZhU, carry out detkos and follow all the recommendations of an individual trainer. But how relevant is this entire industry and is it really necessary for most people? And why do the majority agree to entrust their health to instructors without proper education?

Needless to say, contemporaries are more and more willing to turn not to doctors, but to personal trainers, nutrition "marathoners", founders of various dubious diets. All this is far from free, the services of trainers, participation in marathons, supplements, sports nutrition, even recipes, not to mention smart gadgets - all this costs money, and in total, especially if you managed to get a person hooked on this consumption needle, we are talking about very serious amounts.

On the one hand, one cannot but praise those who, even in the weather following fashion trends, suddenly begin to squat hard or wind up kilometers for the sake of a fitness bracelet, some kind of activity. But statistics claim that 90% of people who go in for sports do it not for the sake of health, but for beauty. As a rule, the majority wants to lose weight, to become the owner of an attractive body by modern standards. Of course, a competent trainer with the appropriate education will help not only maintain health, but also improve it, thanks to the correct load, stretching and improvement of the muscle frame.

Fashion cornering

Considering that the modern media space is filled to the utmost, and every second person imagines himself to be a blogger and strives to teach others what he himself knows at the very least, it is almost impossible to protect oneself from this stream. Plus, what's wrong with exercise videos? In them, not just smart guys and girls, but real muscle monsters in tight clothes, or with a minimum of it, will demonstrate an impeccable exercise technique.

Only all this is also a business and nothing more. And pumped-up coaches who broadcast their achievements and bodies through social networks do not care what the result will be for their viewers, the main thing is that, along with the exercises, they see a sports bottle with a logo, learn in passing about a super new watch that accurately counts calories and more., and they were allowed to make money from advertising. In their accounts, the user will find pictures of impeccable food, some kind of breast or smoothie with grapefruit. This is enough to feel oppressed and even inferior, because the ideal body is so far away, and he again dined on a pie.

Anyone who succeeds in building a "dream body" (yes, yes, there is even a widespread concept), considers it his duty to take a few courses, get a certificate and bring his vision of a healthy lifestyle to the masses. How effective all this is, or at least safe - history is silent.

Alas, but such a lifestyle, when a person starts jumping from one diet to another, playing sports for the sake of centimeters at the waist, then it is difficult to call this lifestyle healthy. In addition, when a person has a need to demonstrate to others how he goes in for sports or what kind of food he eats, then there is no doubt for whom and what he does it.

What remains to be done for the rest, less successful in building a dream body and creating an image of a healthy, energetic and, of course, slim person? Of course, feeling oppressed is worse than others. Despite the fact that it sounds at least ridiculous, but it is so - the more beautiful pictures and other people's achievements on the Internet, the worse the majority of completely normal, healthy and beautiful people feel themselves. This is the flip side of motivation.

Why does a truly healthy lifestyle have nothing to do with modern healthy lifestyle?

Sooner or later, any person is faced with the idea that you need to start leading a healthy lifestyle. No matter what caused such a decision, the search for the easiest and most affordable way to become healthy again, and therefore energetic, slim and beautiful, begins. Most often, a person finds the information that interests him, or, given the modern satiety of the media space, information finds him on the Internet. And then glossy ideals of figures and ways to achieve them are pouring down on him from all sides.

And this is perhaps the most important mistake that lies in wait at the very beginning and threatens to lead the fitness industry along the crooked and thorny path. The abundance of vivid images that advertise certain goods and food is even more addictive. There is a direct connection between this image and the product, by buying which, supposedly, you can get closer to this ideal.

Let's say a person has chosen an excellent trainer for himself, consulted with a nutritionist about nutrition and firmly decided that he will start a new life on Monday. However, more often than not, such severe restrictions end in failure and will only lead to another attack of self-criticism. After all, a healthy lifestyle does not imply strict adherence to any standards and dogmas, constantly driving a person into the framework and forcing him to experience stress.

Scientists are sure that changing something too abruptly in your life is not just undesirable, but can be dangerous. The point is that resistance to change is inherent in human genes. This option allowed you to avoid unknown mushrooms or berries, hearing strange sounds to close the entrance to the cave. By and large, it was this program that allowed humanity to survive. And if today, instead of the usual steaks, you feed the body with chicken breast, and instead of pies - nothing, then it will resist with all its might.

It is important to understand and accept yourself outside the stereotypes of fashionable nutrition programs and other standards. Understand that a healthy lifestyle is not about salt-free oatmeal and smoothies. Pumped up arms and a fifth point also have nothing to do with health, and not everyone who sweats in the gym is an athlete.

The body will not forgive violence against itself, it is worth negotiating with it, and not considering yourself smarter than a well-functioning system, on which you are completely and completely dependent.

Healthy lifestyle in the Soviet way, was it that good?

Traditionally, it is believed that the Soviet Union knew a lot about maintaining health and sports. Although, if you remember, the Soviet healthy lifestyle was also a fashionable phenomenon rather than healthy. The food of those times was more likely to be well-fed, nutritious. Remember the recipes of those years - especially those puff salads with mayonnaise. The same Mimosa, which is so loved by a huge number of families, is just a real calorie bomb for today's zozhniks. This is not surprising, because the generation that survived the war considered famine to be the worst thing that could happen.

Peculiarities of the diet of Soviet people, which seem not entirely useful to their contemporaries: • Milk was considered the most useful drink. Both adults and children drank it. Both in the morning and in the evening. Today's nutritionists believe that adults are losing the ability to absorb lactose. As a result, milk can cause allergies and digestive problems. And in general, nutritionists urge, leave milk for babies! • Raspberry jam was not just a delicacy, but a real medicine. It was believed that it contains a mass of vitamin C and salicylic acid, with its help you can be cured of a cold. And it also contains sugar, which makes its usefulness very conditional. In addition, if any, even the most useful product is boiled, and even more so boiled as for jam, then you can forget about the beneficial properties. • Fish oil cannot be unambiguously called a harmful or useful product. Under certain conditions, it can be both useful and harmful. For example, it is not recommended for diseases of the intestines and blood, but in the Soviet Union it was given with spoons. • Massive passion for twists and blanks. Yes, all of this was served under the sauce "your own, homemade", "vegetables". But at the same time, for some reason it was forgotten that vegetables, fried or boiled in a large amount of oil, containing vinegar and other conservatives, may be tasty, but hardly useful.

As for sports, the most simple was in use, but massively. Pupils, factory workers, pensioners - all categories of the population attended some sections, played volleyball, basketball, went skiing, swam. But the influence of Western culture has been noticeable since the 80s, then yoga began to spread everywhere. The people, overfed in Soviet-style simple sports, poured into this outlandish direction.

The simplest sports equipment was in every home. If the male version were dumbbells and horizontal bars, then the women twisted hoops, jumped on a rope, spinning on the disc "Grace".

Body shaming as the basis of a profitable business

Body shaming is a fairly young trend that arose in response to persistent attempts to drive people into the frame of imposing on them how they should look. This word means "shame for the body." Of course, at first, this direction arose as a response to constant pressure. After all, many women, mothers of young girls began to understand that to resist the onslaught that is being created around the beauty industry, food culture and sports, they realized that this is nothing more than an attempt to involve them in an endless circle of consumption, while imputing a sense of shame to them for their healthy, hardy and beautiful bodies.

Celeste Barber is an ordinary American girl who has always dreamed of becoming an actress, but her popularity found her in something else. Most of the users of social networks know this girl very well and sincerely sympathize with her. In 2015, she began to maintain her Instagram, but it was so different from most of the glamorous pages of beautiful girls striving for popularity that a huge number of people from all over the world began to subscribe to her. Today, more than 7 million people follow Celeste's life on social networks.

Celeste's phenomenon is that she is not afraid to be herself and makes parodies of photographs of stars. At the same time, she claims that she never pursued the goal of making fun of the stars or embarrassing them. On the contrary, she wanted to show that it was normal to feel uncomfortable looking at such flawless photos. And it is normal to have a different figure from the model, to look funny, have a tummy, cellulite, disheveled hair is normal.

Thanks to this non-standard hobby, Celeste has become almost a symbol of self-love and irony for the entire insta culture, which revolves around the imposed healthy lifestyle and fashion culture. She has never been interested in diets and loves to eat well.

Many are sure that it is Celeste, and not Ashley Graham, who is a symbol of body positive. After all, it is worth watching any interview with Ashley, then you can understand that almost any question concerns her weight and parameters, or comes down to this. It leaves the feeling that while Ashley is a sought-after model, she is taken as an exception to the rule and not taken for granted. Therefore, even today, when tolerance and freedom of choice reign around, there remains a difficult decision - to be standardly beautiful, or strive for this ideal (this is also approved), or it is shocking to remain oneself.

Healthy lifestyle code: give up everything bad

So, anyone who adheres to a healthy lifestyle knows that you need to categorically refuse what is harmful. At the same time, it does not matter what the body thinks about this, a healthy lifestyle is, you know, the best thing that can happen to the body. Let him rejoice.

He is either exhausted by training, forcing him to pour sweat in buckets, to build up muscle mass, then he is stuffed with protein all the way, limiting him in carbohydrates, then they arrange a detox, killing all the necessary and unnecessary microflora and forcing him to experience stress again and again. Constant refusals, stress, criticism - this is what the human body and the body is faced with on a daily basis. And for some reason, having lived a decent part of life, people begin to look for health and youth in strange methods, restrictions and other innovations unusual for the body.

It is very easy to live without listening to the opinions of nutritionists and other reputable experts. Moreover, at first they prove one thing, and then the diametrically opposite, at least remember how it was with milk, which has sharply become harmful and dangerous, although it has always been useful. However, listening to yourself, your own body has become too unfashionable, although any other behavior certainly has nothing to do with a healthy lifestyle. And if your body suddenly sharply wanted pizza and lie on the couch, then maybe this is the most necessary, even if not for the waist, but for psychological balance? And who said that it is less important than some parameters and standards?

Moreover, such dietary restrictions most often concern women, because they are most susceptible to fashion trends, including in terms of nutrition. It has been proven that throughout history, men have devoured women, with the tacit consent of the latter..