Kenna Morton's Journal, 17 July 2018

I see so many posts that involve the whole — “not going to exercise—hate it— won’t do it” scenario. I have written this post before but am going to do it again. It take a little while so if you are short on time—- walk on by.

Exercise is crucial. It helps with weight loss. If you walk after eating it speeds up digestion and helps prevent bloating and diminishes the effect of your carbs on your blood sugar. And, once you become ADDICTED it is good for the soul. Eases depression, promotes mental clarity.

Stick with me here—

Think about when you cook a meal like pot roast or make a chicken dish or soup. You can’t help but notice that little pool of fat that sits on top of the soup or gravy and how it will gel and harden into a lump of fat that can be lifted off the food item. When you eat a diet high in poor quality fats the same thing happens to your blood. You can see the globules of fat in the blood in the vial. And if you let it sit the fat separates and sits on top of the blood just like it does on your soup.

So now— you dump that fatty soup down your kitchen drain and what happens— it sticks to the pipes. You do that again and again and pretty soon the hard layers start decreasing the lumen size of the pipes and next thing you know you have a clogged drain.

So the same thing happens to that fatty blood within your blood vessels. The fat builds up little by little until the lumen size of your vessels diminish, your blood flow slows, clots form and you have a heart attack.

VERY YOU G PEOPLE (teens to early 30s) seldom survive a heart attack. Why?

As you age some of the tendencies to start developing a few changes in your blood vessels begins. Your body is smart. So it begins to develope accessory blood vessels off of the main vessels to take on some of the work of transporting blood and oxygen. And— just in case of a major cardiac event there are extra pathways in place. YOUNGER PEOPLE DO NOT HAVE THOSE ACCESSORY VESSELS.— they have not had time to. The youngest heart attack victim I have personally ever dealt with was a 200 lb 12 year old. Massive heart attack— we cracked his chest in the ER and pumped his heart by hand all the way to the OR. He didn’t have a chance, he was pronounced in the OR. I have seen teenagers die, young fathers— all obese, some diabetic. All for the same reasons— no accessory vessels. Sometimes when an older person is in the hospital, or scheduled for surgery it will be discovered that somewhere in his past he had a heart attack that was never recognized. They survived because of the accessory vessels.

To try to make this accessory vessel business a little more clear. Think about what the freeway system around your area of town is like. For me it is the interstate 5 and the 91. Two major biggies. So—let’s say a big rig overturns on the Interstate 5 blocking all lanes and bringing traffic to a halt. Inconvenient but no biggie— I have lots of surface streets in the area so I just get off, take a surface street to my destination. Those sir face streets are those accessory vessels.

Sooo back to the initial subject. The benefit of exercise. When you exercise regularly, your body realizes that it is going to have to increase its ability to deliver more blood, oxygen and nutrients to your heart in order to keep up with the increased demand. How does it do that? It begins to build those surface streets off of your interstate 5 and your 91.
When you have a history of obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure your chances of having a major cardiac event is significantly greater than a non obese person. I’m sure I’m not offending anyone. It’s just a fact.

All of us, with our stresses, our eating habits and the junk food we eat are prime candidates for a nonsurvivable cardiac event.
Exercise could save your life — I’m not talking about getting buffed out or running ten miles or lifting heavy weights. I’m talking take your kid and dog for a walk. The rate we are going with our kids—- they may be the ones who don’t survive the cardiac event.

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1127 kcal

Fat: 35.36g | Prot: 50.19g | Carb: 156.18g.   Breakfast: Sarabeth's Orange Apricot Marmalade, Dave's Killer Bread Thin-Sliced Good Seed Bread, Food Club Large Egg, Maxwell House International Cafe Orange, Aqua de Jamaica (hibiscus ice tea). Lunch: Bolthouse Farms Caramelized Sweet Onion Yogurt Dressing, Trans-Ocean Seafood Snackers, Seapoint Farms Dry Roasted Edamame - Lightly Salted, Lettuce, Giant Eagle Cherry Tomatoes, Cantaloupe Melons, Driscoll's Blueberries. Dinner: Whole Foods Market Nectarines, Onions, Melissa's Anaheim Chile, Publix Red Bell Pepper, Toufayan Bakeries Organic Sprouted Whole Wheat Pita, Mozzarella Cheese, Great Value Large Black Olives, Pure Leaf Unsweetened Green Tea, Pure Leaf Honey Green Tea, Oh sweet basil pizza sauce. Snacks/Other: Betty Crocker Banana Bread, R.W. Knudsen Family 2% Milkfat Small Curd Lowfat Cottage Cheese, BJ's Rainier Cherries. more...

1822 kcal

Activities & Exercise: Walking (brisk) - 4/mph - 30 minutes, Swimming (slow) - 1 hour and 30 minutes, Swimming (moderate) - 30 minutes, Resting - 13 hours and 30 minutes, Sleeping - 8 hours. more...