2nd Chapter

If for these our ancestors physical preparation was but a guarantee of survival, a determining factor for success, we almost venture to say the same for the man of our day, who in recent decades has lived a little away from what we have just described. The life in the big cities made pass the physical condition of the inhabitants to second plan. The ease of access to motorized transport, the goals at all levels sedentarily achieved among many things, has led to contemporary man changing the habits and needs of the past, not the same as his body, which despite some evolution, never Has undergone such profound changes. But some of them, especially at the pathological level, such as obesity, cardiovascular problems or high cholesterol, led to the first collective realization that something was wrong in this way of living.

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