Fit Kids Are Smarter Kids

Jeff, I have loved your writing for years and offer this constructive criticism. The first sentence of the story, "When done correctly, exercise produces a joy that enhances quality of life at any age", is dead wrong. Exercise does NOT produce joy. It does not enhance quality of life. The exact opposite is true. A lack of exercise produces misery. A lack of exercise diminishes quality of life. By saying that exercise produces joy, we are treating exercise like a pill. That mindset tells us that exercise is something unusual - something extra. It is not. Exercise is our default setting. Activity is critical for homeostasis because we evolved in-motion. We must do it to be normal. If we continue to look at exercise from the perspective that it is something extra we can chose to do, we will continue to decline. When we change that mindset and acknowledge that activity is as important as eating, breathing, and eliminating, we will be on the road toward health once again.