Five Lies About Your Body – The Gospel Coalition Blog

The time for New Year's resolutions has come and gone, but many of us still have plans to fix this or that. And if you're a woman, there's a good chance making changes to your body is at the top of your to-do list.

How we view our bodies will determine whether our plans to change them are God-honoring or self-elevating. Do we see our bodies the way our Maker does?

With that in mind, here are five lies our culture tells us about how we should perceive our bodies—and five truths from Scripture to help shift our perspective. MORE: Five Lies About Your Body – The Gospel Coalition Blog

How Much Do You Really Exercise?

For Your Health: Is Sitting a Lethal Activity? (NY Times)

"DR. LEVINE’S MAGIC UNDERWEAR resembled bicycle shorts, black and skintight, but with sensors mounted on the thighs and wires running to a fanny pack. The look was part Euro tourist, part cyborg. Twice a second, 24 hours a day, the magic underwear’s accelerometers and inclinometers would assess every movement I made, however small, and whether I was lying, walking, standing or sitting...."

Abundant Life with Exercise (Branda Polk). “'A thief comes only to steal and to kill and to destroy. I have come that they may have life and have it in abundance.'” (John 10:10, HCSB)
The statistics are frightening and sad:
• 62% of Americans are overweight or obese
• 1 in 3 US adults have high blood pressure
• 17.2 million Americans have diagnosed diabetes, approximately 6.1 million are undiagnosed diabetics, and over 63 million are pre-diabetic symptoms
• 1 in 3 American men have some form of heart disease
These realities are just a few reminders of the unhealthy, disease riddled lives that so many people live. These statistics are even more discouraging when, most of the time, these are the consequences of an inactive lifestyle and are completely preventable..."