Health

Many people spend more time on their homes and cars than they do on their health. Too many people forget that they live in their bodies first and their homes second. Stay at home in the world and stay in your body at home. After all, where else can you live? Therefore, taking care of your body should be prioritized over taking care of the rest of the world. For some reason, many people give up physical activity altogether after college, thus beginning a steady physical decline, losing muscle and bone mass from their 30s until they die from inactivity. It is common for trained 60 year olds to be in better physical condition than sedentary 30 year olds.

For the person who aspires to become a renaissance man of becoming:

• The goal is to maintain an optimal physiological level of physical and mental health.
• Understand how the body functions and physiology adapts to imposed demands such as stress, overeating, and lack of exercise.
• Know, which foods promote health and which foods destroy it and why.
• Maintain good eating habits and discipline to avoid destructive foods. Know how to preserve food and how to tell when it is spoiled.
• Be able to participate in local athletic events (excluding marathons that are more than 4 hours of jogging/walking). Those who focus on sports, rather than one of the other five areas, should eventually be able to compete at the district level.
• Ability to demonstrate physical fitness when exhausted, hungry or fatigued. Be able to operate under the most adverse conditions, such as lifting an unconscious person out of a burning house, or crawling out of a drainage ditch in the event of a fall, or similar real-life requirements. Know at least basic first aid.