Physical Intelligence - Day 78

The chief lesson from this weekend has been about age appropriate nutrition.  With a large family that has a lot of kids and those kids producing the next generation that now represents two active grand-children, I can't change what the family decides will be the family meal, I can only become more discerning that at a personal level I can no longer eat like a 19 year old.

There are physical and metabolic differences and while yesterday's barbecue was a spread fit for a King, I don't particularly have or even want King Henry VIII's disposition.  It was tough to resist the quality of the burgers that the barbecue aficionados in our home conjured up.  A third of the spread however did include white meat like chicken, so that is what I focused on.

It is a very long leap to study life longevity and even if we can add that to our age appropriate education, how much of what it is we learn fits the urban lifestyle that people like me lead. This video about life longevity in Okinawa also introduces many life and work practices that do not translate to the life that is home to me.  There are some psychological considerations in this video that make it interesting but these considerations like dealing with our emotional being is appropriate to adults of all ages :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl2PU4E3GsI

The Okinawa video speaks to an attitude about physical intelligence - where in the West there is a near-slave like acceptance of the career path, these people in Okinawa are working as life rather than living for work and the relationship of being active and even working late into life is still featured in the Okinawa longevity factors.  The video also describes poverty among older generations so even if the video is featured on a positive like life longevity, it also addresses the world record of suicides of over 60 year olds and that is a thoroughly unwelcome world record.

Since I never lived the Okinawa life and so I must think about the reality of the way I have already lived my life, but here is the problem - the cause and effect relationship I consider here leads to a physical intelligence that is habitual in society.  I am having to react to the way we have organized our society and yet now can see that the way we have organized work in society is corrupt, in that it is not natural to who we are as life-long practice. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0BJU0iGTH0

So we listen to people like Dr. Stella Volpe who study individuals who have already been corrupted by the unnatural career path mindset that all of us do not question and then equally why retirement is set up in a distinct way, with distinct ideas about what retirement is or should be.  So we measure in studies a way of life that is sub-optimal living, but these studies don't prompt a transformation in how we operate as a society, and worse - we discover that the "experts' in exercise and nutrition studies offer cures and symptoms rather than prevention and root cause. 

As sensible I should be about eating for my age, my age is not chronological it is biological and from a biological existence I may well have a body of a 70 year old, whereas a more active middle age person may still have the body of a 30 year old.  That is quite a difference all based on how we live our life and our attitude to work as a natural thing.  No wonder the world of nutrition is a minefield of different views and that it is so hard to get a clear handle on what actually works.  What makes what actually works so difficult is that in terms of physical intelligence - one size does not fit all - we need to map our physical intelligence to our own unique make up and map of life and living (how we live under social rules and how we choose to live with our own individual choices).