Thanks to the myriad products owing their design and emerging to arrest the attention of people in all walks of life in our times, particularly easy accessibility to comfort-loving urbanites, physical action in life from dawn to dusk as it were has yielded place to virtual push-button-driven living. The kitchen machine, popularly identified as the mixie, to be found in kitchens as an indispensable companion of the home-maker stands out, driving the time-honoured two-component grinding stone into pages of history. Electricity has also proved to be a factor destabilising life when it plays truant. Walking for commuting has unwittingly raised its image as a means of exercise, particularly for those with heart-related issues. Water that had to be taken out of the well in the backyard of homes now flows at half-turn of the forest, clearly taking away a golden opportunity for exercising many parts of the anatomy. The combo of comfort and convenience has done its job of nurturing lethargy and its health threatening consequences about which the literati don’t need to be enlightened.
An article published in a business-oriented daily recently raised the question of how exercise keeps us young. More appropriately, the effort bestowed upon regular physical activity free of push-button style undoubtedly results in fitness as one ages. The field of exercise science has tended to attract the millennials, going by the proliferation of gyms.
