Rise in the morning, push a button and coffee is ready in minutes.
The electric razor shaves us, and the electric toothbrush cleans our teeth.
Push a button and the car doors unlock.
Push a button and the windows go up and down.
Arrive home and get on the riding mower and mow the yard.
A brush cutter trims.
And a list of our labor saving devices goes on each reducing physical labor.
We are busy, busy.
But physical labor is reduced to the point where it might be called laziness, or can become physical laziness.
Easily a person can also become a couch potato.
Then one day we discover that the cholesterol count is up too high.
Our body is not using up the foods we eat.
It has not been used enough for it burn the intake of foods.
Along with a bad cholesterol count weight has gone up.
Then comes dieting, and workouts at the spa, trying to recover that once healthy body.
You get the picture.
Are labor saving devices the cause? Yes and No, but mostly no.
Walking behind a self-propelled mower for mowing the yard would give a walking exercise.
Hand trimming around shrubs and flowers gives another kind of exercise.
When shopping, park as far out in the parking lot as possible and walk to the stores, and walk while shopping.
Walking up stairs instead of using the elevator adds a good exercise.
The point is that with a little thought good exercises are ready to use, and they are healthy.
Labor saving devices are not the culprit for being overweight, or having a too high cholesterol count.
It is our thinking about them and what they can do, and then the mentality that we develop.
Once thinking begins that we can do nothing except without a labor saving device, and then getting into a routine of doing nothing without such devices, is the cause for becoming physically lazy.
Labor saving devices are good.
Yet we fail to think about our body needing a workout as much or more than those devices.
Workouts need not be strenuous.
Things that are common to daily living can become good exercise when they are recognized and used.
And they will contribute to good health.
The electric razor shaves us, and the electric toothbrush cleans our teeth.
Push a button and the car doors unlock.
Push a button and the windows go up and down.
Arrive home and get on the riding mower and mow the yard.
A brush cutter trims.
And a list of our labor saving devices goes on each reducing physical labor.
We are busy, busy.
But physical labor is reduced to the point where it might be called laziness, or can become physical laziness.
Easily a person can also become a couch potato.
Then one day we discover that the cholesterol count is up too high.
Our body is not using up the foods we eat.
It has not been used enough for it burn the intake of foods.
Along with a bad cholesterol count weight has gone up.
Then comes dieting, and workouts at the spa, trying to recover that once healthy body.
You get the picture.
Are labor saving devices the cause? Yes and No, but mostly no.
Walking behind a self-propelled mower for mowing the yard would give a walking exercise.
Hand trimming around shrubs and flowers gives another kind of exercise.
When shopping, park as far out in the parking lot as possible and walk to the stores, and walk while shopping.
Walking up stairs instead of using the elevator adds a good exercise.
The point is that with a little thought good exercises are ready to use, and they are healthy.
Labor saving devices are not the culprit for being overweight, or having a too high cholesterol count.
It is our thinking about them and what they can do, and then the mentality that we develop.
Once thinking begins that we can do nothing except without a labor saving device, and then getting into a routine of doing nothing without such devices, is the cause for becoming physically lazy.
Labor saving devices are good.
Yet we fail to think about our body needing a workout as much or more than those devices.
Workouts need not be strenuous.
Things that are common to daily living can become good exercise when they are recognized and used.
And they will contribute to good health.
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