Literally any movement is better than sitting on your butt all day. Initially featured in the blockbuster movie The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 and recorded by Christina Perri, this powerful ballad enjoys continued. But for those struggling to get into any sort of rhythm with daily exercise, just know that you don’t need to buy a Peloton or join ClassPass. Several thousand years ago, it was an imperative for survival. The big change, of course, is that physical activity is now treated as a choice. Without regular physical activity, we’re at an increased risk of “diabetes, obesity, cancer, osteoporosis, Alzheimer’s, and depression.” When we let exercise fall to the wayside (and behave more like chimpanzees), it’s harder for the body to ward off disease and early mortality. The modern lifestyle, though, poses an existential, everyday threat to these long since-earned improvements in human health and lifespan. But over many millennia, and as far back as 40,000 years ago, Homo sapiens evolved “to remain physically active as they age - and in doing so to allocate energy to physiological processes that slow the body’s gradual deterioration over the years.” Most female chimpanzees don’t even make it to menopause. In the wild, most chimpanzees live to about 30 years old. That discrepancy is massive, and in the family of great apes, absolutely unheard of. The average menopause age, though, is 51 years old. The average life expectancy of a woman born in the United States this morning is 81.4 years old. We take it for granted that human beings live well beyond their post-reproductive years. Lieberman’s research offers an evolutionary framework for why that is. That might sound sort of obvious: Yes, I would hope that physical activity keeps me healthy as I get older. A commitment to lifelong movement “guards against chronic illnesses such as cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, and even some cancers.”
Lieberman, a Harvard scientist who has written several prominent papers - usually comparing prehistoric fitness to latter-day practices - recently published a study partly titled “The active grandparent hypothesis.” The research suggests that human beings specifically evolved to remain active well into the twilight portion of their lives. The trend is concerning to evolutionary biologists, who have taken pains to exhibit why it’s so important that human adults keep moving, especially as they age.ĭr. We spend most of those hours looking at screens, but that’s just about the only way in which our sedentary lifestyle diverts from that of chimps. Recent spotlights from the CDC have illustrated that humans are sitting way too much - around seven hours a day. They walk less than two-and-a-half miles per day, which, in human terms, is equal to about 5,000 steps. Chimps spend eight to 10 hours a day resting, and nine to 10 hours a night sleeping. Our closest living relative, the chimpanzee, spends much of its time sitting on the forest floor, digesting fruits and insects. But as it turns out, many modern adults are the ones whose day-to-day lives resemble those of apes. Christina Perri - A Thousand Years (Twilight- Breaking Dawn Pt.1) Piano Tutorial 'A Thousand Years' is the second single to be released from the soundtrack of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn fantasy film that will be out on November 2011 (Part 1) & November 2012 (Part 2).
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This exclusive video of Christina performing "A Thousand Years" is part of The Live Room series on The Warner Sound.We’re more likely to equate the behavior of children - running around, causing a general ruckus - with that of monkeys and primates. What other movies would you like to write songs for? Fortunately or unfortunately, I keep falling in and out of love, so I've got tons of material! I'll start recording at the beginning of next year, and it'll come out in 2013." I was on tour for 27 months, but then I jumped right into it. "I'm smack in the middle of making album two. So doing a Christmas EP was inevitable for me I've always wanted to record one. "I'm such a Christmas fanatic-beyond my family and the holiday, musically, Christmas carols are the first songs I ever performed. Now the song is not just for Edward and Bella it's for the whole franchise. It plays during the last moments that we see Edward and Bella, and then a curtain call of the whole cast, so it's pretty epic. So that's what makes it really special that they asked me if it could be in the most epic six minutes of the final film. And it was the second credit song, so most of the people had pretty much left the theatre, but it connected with all of the fans more than the singles from the soundtrack and the bigger scenes. "In Breaking Dawn – Part 1, the song was in the credits.