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SEDENTARY NATION

How did we stop moving and stop spending time outdoors? Those are some of the points taken up by wellness author Henry “Sifu Slim” Kreuter in his new book “Sedentary Nation – The Answers Are Not Found in the New Millennium, They’re in 1910.”

A fast-paced, entertaining story, bolstered by scientific findings, this book shows how and why modernites segued to static, indoor, movement-deficient spaces, which for too many has culminated in diminished health and happiness. To accurately review the history of sedentism, the author developed what may be our era’s most detailed Timeline of Decreasing Physical Movement. Sifu’s extensive chart compares hunter-gatherers, farmers, and industrial agers to modern couch, desk, and car potatoes from standpoints of necessity and convenience.

The buying habits of the unwell potatoes have made stress-related drugs seven of the top-selling pills on the market. Sleep drugs are not far behind. A decade ago, Sifu started polling psychological counselors what was driving people to seek counseling. Their number one response was SLEEP DISORDERS.

“My patients,” one counselor shared, “whether workers, students, or retirees, regularly complain about being wired at the end of the day, not tired like the exhausted workers of 1910 you describe.” In a virtual, daily material-world binge, people are still awake way past historic diurnal bedtime. Is endless virtual surfing and junk snacking what’s causing apathy and a complete disconnection to nature and our true anthropological natures?

Part wellness guide and fitness biography, Sifu’s book contains simple and easy steps for better health, emphasizing WHY these strategies are essential. Rather than navigate the pile of data and articles which is said to double every four years—deluging the overburdened and inactive public—wouldn’t we be better getting off the couch or away from the desk, engaging in movement?

Transformation, “get ripped quick” or “lose 10 pounds easily,” is way oversold in today’s 24-hour info blitz. What do busy people do then? Instead of dropping out of their arduous transformational boot camps after they make some progress, the fit folks should get on a lifetime program of maintenance—like the Sifu Slim Program For Daily Living. Rather than think workout, which is hard, we should think play and recreation which are joyous pastimes that may endure for a lifetime.

 

In addition, Sedentary Nation discusses:

• History, psychology, and sociology. How the obesity and unwellness epidemic is unprecedented.
• How an overabundance information and non-physical living leads to a neurotic society—where everyone can uncomfortably live in their heads.
• How the 1970s drove us to corn syrup, couches, and societal health malaise.
• The wisdom of our great-grandparents—
  who used their bodies in meaningful ways for work, chores, and recreation.
• How to stay fit and healthy in despite busy schedules.
• The insanity of modern impulses: butt implants for the couch, desk, and car potatoes.
• The biochemical bonuses to physical activity.
• Diet and the overreliance on supplements.
• Engineering a new system. Most people in the new millennium have no daily program of movement—just some occasional impulses.
• How we can stop what leads inactive kids to become hobbled adults.
• Wellness in the workplace.
• We lack euphoria and attempt to solve this with addictive practices: Euphoria, from euphoros, the Greek word for health.

About Henry “Sifu Slim” Kreuter
Sifu Slim (pron. See Foo) is the pen name of author and wellness coach Henry Kreuter (pron. Kroyter). A lifelong amateur athlete, Mr. Kreuter travels as a public speaker and leading proponent of “intentional physical activity.” His books and videos focus on how anyone can integrate physical fitness and healthy dietary practices into everyday life as “the ideal antidote for our sedentary, over programmed world.”

Sifu calls himself a mix of Jack LaLanne and Bruce Lee, trapped inside the body of Gilligan. Despite the onslaught of desk work and a computer-centric lifestyle, he has been maintaining daily physical movement and exercise since following along with Jack LaLanne on TV in the mid 1960s.

“Sedentary Nation” is available for purchase at
SedentaryNation.com and Amazon.com.

TESTIMONIALS

“As Sifu says, we are meant to move, and our present day sedentary lifestyles are killing us! Get up and go: the life you save will be your own.”

– Hyla Cass, MD, Author of “8 Weeks to Vibrant Health”

“Sifu Slim's book hit me hard... on day 5 at my desk in my pajamas telecommuting. As a person who has spent most of her adult life studying the human body's responses to external forces experienced in real-world accidents, I know it is no accident that I read his book in my 50's, a time when years of chair-sitting manifest in physical pain and mechanical failure. Now, embracing Sifu Slim's message, I am a body in motion, walking, climbing trees, and jumping for joy. This book is a must read for all who work at home, and for all those who wished they worked at home!”

– Dr. Jacqueline Paver, PhD, Biomechanical Engineer

“Contrary to most recommendations, here is a book you must put down! Sifu Slim's "Sedentary Nation" charts our human journey from caveman to couch potatoes. Sifu's point is simple but sure: while exercising our brains with desktops, laptops, I-pads, I-pods, television and the like, we seem to have overlooked exercising our bodies. I couldn't wait to stop reading and start walking!”

– Caspar Weinberger, Jr., Human Events Columnist and Lecturer