You Are Amazing And So Say All Of Us
July 3rd 2013 12:02
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What amazing creatures we are. Whether you believe we are a biological entity that has evolved from thousands of chaotic mutations that—against all possibility—have overturned all the mathematical odds of reason and managed to foster and maintain complex systems of reliability and conformity, or whether you are a creationist who believes in intelligent design, the fact remains: humans are amazing creatures.
One of the reasons we are amazing creatures is that, like all biological forms of life, we can demonstrate metabolic growth, reproduce, respond to different circumstances within our environment and make the necessary adaptions required for our survival in a world fraught with danger and destruction. This is what happens, even while we are maturing: in order to maintain a state of homeostasis within our environment, an internal genetically coded mechanism that is of a biological nature has to adjust physiologically to environmental stimuli day in, day out. This may mean that at the cellular level there is much going on of which we are not aware, except, as is usually the case, in the event of a malfunction, that is, an illness.
Somehow, our genetic makeup has enabled us to maintain our humanity as we know it, distinguishable from other creatures and life forms on this planet. This does not appear to be a consequence of random happenings, rather from a continuation of a designated formula that appears to be imprinted within our genes, which, at this point of time, we assume are the governing forces that predetermine our gender, height, eye color, skin complexion and hair and body type. These six dissimilitude’s play a major factor in determining our physical appearance, but are not conclusive in having the final say. Diet and activity and lifestyle choices also have a major impact upon our bodily appearance and, when the truth is known, rule the day.
Our diet can be one that affects our natural physiology in numerous ways. This is evident when short people from countries that have low protein diets immigrate to countries where protein is freely available and their children are naturally taller. The effects of diet is also evident in photos taken of people in United States during the years prior to the Second World War, where members of the general populace appear more gaunt in their faces than those in photos taken at random from the years since the 1960s. Obesity is much more evident in the post war photos of the general population than it was prior to the World War II. The major difference between the generations is the diet consumed and activities played.
Activity, from an overall perspective, has dramatically decreased proportionately to the number of children who watch television or play computer games. Sedentary activity—if you can call it activity—plays a major part of people’s lives in the western countries or other affluent societies than what it does in communities where the need for every person to scratch a living from whatever means possible is paramount. Consequently, there are more obese individuals found among the affluent than there are within the non-affluent. Although, this does have qualifications, because the poorer members of the affluent societies tend to be home to more obese individuals than the wealthy members of affluent society. Unfortunately, the poorer members of the affluent society are often derogatorily referred to as the effluent society, or white trash, rather than the affluent society. Whether this is because of a lower standard of education, a tendency towards obesity, a lack of morality and lower living standards in general, you can be the judge.
Lifestyle choices do play an important part in our appearance regardless of gender, height, eye color, skin complexion, hair type and physique. Not everybody is born tall or short or thin or fat or muscular. Eye color can vary from being black or brown or blue or green or yellow to pink. Skin complexion, regardless of the amount of melanin that is present in the skin, can be dry or oily. Irrespective of color, hair can be kinky or straight, regardless of where it grows on the body; it can also be frizzy, curly or wavy, long or short. Physique, likewise, is not restricted to genetics, because those who eat and do not exercise will put on weight, while those who do not eat will lose weight. The middle road is to exercise and put on muscle—how much is a matter of choice but restricted by genetic parameters. An ectomorphic individual will not look like Arnold Schwarzenegger in the Terminator, no matter how hard he tries, and an endomorphic individual is pushing more than turf uphill if he fantasizes becoming an ectomorph and living a healthy life.
Overall, what we eat, and what we do, and the lifestyle choices that we determine will affect our appearance. Sadly, to say, our interpretation of the image in the mirror on the wall does not have the final say. Death reigns on the last day. Life on planet Earth is but the blossoming of a flower that sends out its fragrance to attract the bee to continue episodes of activity, which we will never see in our biological form. Pass on we must, regardless of all the fuss. Just as the book says: on we go, dust to dust.
Surely, there has to be more!
One of the reasons we are amazing creatures is that, like all biological forms of life, we can demonstrate metabolic growth, reproduce, respond to different circumstances within our environment and make the necessary adaptions required for our survival in a world fraught with danger and destruction. This is what happens, even while we are maturing: in order to maintain a state of homeostasis within our environment, an internal genetically coded mechanism that is of a biological nature has to adjust physiologically to environmental stimuli day in, day out. This may mean that at the cellular level there is much going on of which we are not aware, except, as is usually the case, in the event of a malfunction, that is, an illness.
Somehow, our genetic makeup has enabled us to maintain our humanity as we know it, distinguishable from other creatures and life forms on this planet. This does not appear to be a consequence of random happenings, rather from a continuation of a designated formula that appears to be imprinted within our genes, which, at this point of time, we assume are the governing forces that predetermine our gender, height, eye color, skin complexion and hair and body type. These six dissimilitude’s play a major factor in determining our physical appearance, but are not conclusive in having the final say. Diet and activity and lifestyle choices also have a major impact upon our bodily appearance and, when the truth is known, rule the day.
Our diet can be one that affects our natural physiology in numerous ways. This is evident when short people from countries that have low protein diets immigrate to countries where protein is freely available and their children are naturally taller. The effects of diet is also evident in photos taken of people in United States during the years prior to the Second World War, where members of the general populace appear more gaunt in their faces than those in photos taken at random from the years since the 1960s. Obesity is much more evident in the post war photos of the general population than it was prior to the World War II. The major difference between the generations is the diet consumed and activities played.
Activity, from an overall perspective, has dramatically decreased proportionately to the number of children who watch television or play computer games. Sedentary activity—if you can call it activity—plays a major part of people’s lives in the western countries or other affluent societies than what it does in communities where the need for every person to scratch a living from whatever means possible is paramount. Consequently, there are more obese individuals found among the affluent than there are within the non-affluent. Although, this does have qualifications, because the poorer members of the affluent societies tend to be home to more obese individuals than the wealthy members of affluent society. Unfortunately, the poorer members of the affluent society are often derogatorily referred to as the effluent society, or white trash, rather than the affluent society. Whether this is because of a lower standard of education, a tendency towards obesity, a lack of morality and lower living standards in general, you can be the judge.
Lifestyle choices do play an important part in our appearance regardless of gender, height, eye color, skin complexion, hair type and physique. Not everybody is born tall or short or thin or fat or muscular. Eye color can vary from being black or brown or blue or green or yellow to pink. Skin complexion, regardless of the amount of melanin that is present in the skin, can be dry or oily. Irrespective of color, hair can be kinky or straight, regardless of where it grows on the body; it can also be frizzy, curly or wavy, long or short. Physique, likewise, is not restricted to genetics, because those who eat and do not exercise will put on weight, while those who do not eat will lose weight. The middle road is to exercise and put on muscle—how much is a matter of choice but restricted by genetic parameters. An ectomorphic individual will not look like Arnold Schwarzenegger in the Terminator, no matter how hard he tries, and an endomorphic individual is pushing more than turf uphill if he fantasizes becoming an ectomorph and living a healthy life.
Overall, what we eat, and what we do, and the lifestyle choices that we determine will affect our appearance. Sadly, to say, our interpretation of the image in the mirror on the wall does not have the final say. Death reigns on the last day. Life on planet Earth is but the blossoming of a flower that sends out its fragrance to attract the bee to continue episodes of activity, which we will never see in our biological form. Pass on we must, regardless of all the fuss. Just as the book says: on we go, dust to dust.
Surely, there has to be more!
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