Sure. Healthy is sexy and beautiful. A strong, fit body looks as good as it feels. But the most valuable rewards of good health and fitness have very little to do with rippling muscles or thin thighs.
You'd never know that by looking at conventional media, though.
All those sensationalized headlines, sexy images and instant-results promises may get our attention and appeal to our vanity, but they can also make getting healthy seem like a self-indulgent undertaking or a trivial, out-of-reach fantasy.
Worse, the unrelenting focus on largely unachievable ideals has a way of playing to our body-image insecurities.
Those superficial obsessions can also distract us from the deeper, lasting motivations that matter more.
So if mass media is messing with your mind or sapping your self-esteem, tune out the hype and turn your attention elsewhere. Like the reasons being healthy matters to you.
Maybe you have your heart set on six-pack abs and buns of steel; maybe not.
Either way, connecting with your own authentic healthy-life vision and values is the best way to start.
(text from http://revolutionaryact.com/ )
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