(10-12-11) Fitness: Physical Activity Consistent with Our Hunter-Gatherer Heritage

(10-12-11) Fitness: Physical Activity Consistent with Our Hunter-Gatherer Heritage
James H. O?Keefe, MD; Robert Vogel, MD; Carl J. Lavie, MD; Loren Cordain, PhD
Abstract: Many of the pervasive health concerns in modern society are the result of diet and lifestyle choices that are at odds with
the evolutionary milieu for which we remain genetically adapted. This systematic displacement from a very physically active lifestyle
in a natural outdoor environment to a sedentary indoor lifestyle may be at the root of many chronic diseases that are endemic in our
culture. A proposed solution is to simulate indigenous human activity patterns in such a way that is possible and practical for individuals
to achieve. Suggestions for exercise mode, duration, intensity, and frequency are outlined, with a focus on realigning our daily physical
activities with the archetype that is encoded within our genome. In a sedentary individual, this type of daily physical activity should
help confer the robust vigorous health that enabled our ancestors to survive and thrive as hunter-gatherers in the wild.

Source: THE PHYSICIAN AND SPORTSMEDICINE ? ISSN ? 0091-3847, December 2010, No. 4, Volume 38

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