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Hard-wired for Exercise by: Philip J. Goscienski, M.D. Exercise will make you more fit, but that's only a small part of the story, according to Philip J. Goscienski, M.D. 'Humans are designed for much more physical activity than most of us get,'¯ says Dr. Goscienski, author of Health Secrets of the Stone Age, 'and every cell of the body benefits from it. Barely 20 percent of Americans are physically active enough to enjoy those benefits.'¯ The 80 percent of us who savor the soft life now will have to endure a hard life later, he says. The human body evolved under conditions that involved lots of activity for so many thousands of years that it depends on moderate physical stress in order to function well. 'If we don't stress our bones with fairly heavy lifting, carrying, pushing and throwing, those bones will become thinner. After all, why should the body maintain a strong, heavy skeleton if it doesn't need it to support a lot of muscle? Thin bones are fragile, a condition we all know as osteoporosis.'¯ That's a pretty obvious example, but there are lots of subtle ones. Most people would be surprised to learn that there is a connection between exercise and gallbladder disease. The more you exercise, the less likely it is that you will ever have to undergo surgery to have your gallbladder removed. In a study of more than '60
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