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Dancing Skeletons, a book by nutritional anthropologist Katherine Dettwyler

Trade floppy fins for bum knees, collapsed arches, eroded hips, tight hamstrings, leaky pelvic floors, collapsed ankles, you name it—and consider our load profile. Walking on a treadmill an hour a day creates an entirely different load profile than walking over the ground for an hour. Wearing shoes to walk that hour creates a different load profile

The government currently recommends three categories of movement—cardio, strength training, and stretching—which can be likened to the macronutrient groups carbohydrates, fat, and protein. Without a better prescription for what to eat/how to move, the moves we consume to meet our recommended daily allowance (RDA) become mostly junk. And, without co

In most cases, modern environments do not prevent us from adopting behaviors with better health outcomes. We choose to drive instead of walk. To push our kids in a stroller and not carry them in our arms. To push our food in a cart and not carry it on our back. We slouch into our furniture, and let our shoes support our feet. Yes, our modern cultur

The position (literally) we have gotten our body into is being passed down to the next generation, because we have not been instructed on how to move. We keep teaching the next generation our poor habits because we don’t understand how movement and alignment are passed on (psssst… it’s not genetic). The farther we have gotten from nature, the less

Because DNA can be expressed differently depending upon how external factors impinge upon the cells within which the DNA resides, and because movement is one of these factors, the way we move has a direct bearing upon how our bodies are shaped—for good and ill.