The danger of Exercise while breathing Petro-Chemical Smog

One day people in the future are going to look back on some of us who exercised outdoors with derision and contempt.

Have you ever seen persons getting exercise by bicycling, walking or jogging along busy streets filled with vehicular traffic?

Maybe you have in the past or still do that yourself? To get any benefit from the exercise the first thing you need to do is stop exercising while breathing in vehicle exhaust, especially from diesel fueled cars and trucks.

While it is still posted (Fox Video as of September 23,2007) watch this video interview of Doctor Rosenfeld about the effects that vehicle exhaust, especially Diesel, has on Human blood and arteries:

Video Title:

Runners Beware

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/ver/242/popup/index.php?cl=4200882

It is a generally known scientific fact, proved over the years in several studies, that what ever you breathe in will be in your blood within seconds, after all, how does Oxygen get into your blood, but by breathing? In most of these studies dealing with gas exchange through the lung membranes, it was found that persons who breathe polluted air have the highest heart disease rates. One of the studies dealt with physically fit people who exercised: those breathing polluted air as opposed to those that exercised in places away from traffic fumes. Again the same conclusion, if you are breathing exhaust fumes your arteries are being detrimentally affected within minutes, not hours or years, but minutes!

Another study I recall had a blood drawing lab set up in a van that drove along with several human test subjects running along streets filled with heavy traffic. After certain timed periods the runners were stopped and blood was drawn to be sampled and tested back at a Blood analytical Lab.

The results:

Every one of the runners had concentrations of carbon monoxide at such high levels that if they had been admitted to an emergency room and had their blood sampled there, most attending physicians would have treated them for Carbon monoxide Poisoning.

Here's the danger:

Since the test runners were at a good level of physical condition, none reported “feeling” bad at all from the running along the polluted roadways.

Yet the tests prove their blood was literally dying!

Proof that you must balance your physical training with correct knowledge and not go solely by how you “feel” or your physical appearance when determining your exercise methods and locations.

Note: Over 30% of people who drop dead of heart failure have clean arteries and “normal” cholesterol.

What part is air pollution playing in these deaths?

The U.N’s World Health Organization reports that there are probably over 800,000 or more premature deaths every year due solely to air pollution.

I live in a city that is washed almost daily with ocean sea breezes year round, though some days the pollution collects over the city with that distinct orange-yellowish haze of petro-chemical smog.

I exercise a lot outside, but always away from vehicular traffic.

When I bike I ride a circuit in a wooded park along a river, when I run it is on side streets where there is no traffic and when I walk it is generally along the beach.

I realize not everyone lives in a tropical paradise, so here is my recommendation if you live in a northern climate and or polluted city.

Make your own pure air environment in your home.

1. Purchase an Air Cleaner for your whole house or just for the room that serves as your home Gym indoors. The purifier should use ozone and negative ions to clean the air, not just collect dust from the air.
2. If you like to bike get a Stationary Bike and if you like to walk have a Treadmill.
3. Use a Rebounder .If you haven’t used one yet, I highly recommend it. Anyone below 300 pounds can start using one.
4. Use Full Spectrum Bulbs in your home gym. In my home all the lighting is FULL Spectrum lighting.What a difference it makes in how most people feel, especially in the midst of those dreary fall and winter days and nights.

The benefits of your own little pure air micro environment is that everyday regardless of rain or shine,temperature or your schedule, you can exercise breathing non-polluted air.

Exercising in polluted air is unhealthy and even deadly!

For more information on how to set up your home gym and the products I use send me an email at:

Homegym@AlkalineLifestyle.us

Describe your room you are thinking about using and I will send you a list of ideas and a list of sources and prices for the equipment mentioned.

By the way, my own personal reason for supporting reducing dependence on petroleum fuels has nothing to do with so called, “Global Warming”, it has everything to do with reducing or eliminating air pollution and the detrimental affects it is having on the health of all people living in cites.

For a more balanced view on the subject of Climate Change, follow the Link to:

http://earthsciencesus.blogspot.com/