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Chronic Joint Pain:
Is It Interfering With Your Life?
If there’s one thing I know about first-hand, it’s
knee and joint pain.
Let me tell you, this is not
always an age-related problem, so feel good about that! Mine started at
the tender age of 14 with Osgood-Schlatter Disease. I have it to this
day in my left knee, and it hurts like crazy.
Since then, I’ve had a fracture of the sesamoid
(called Sesamoiditis,
or “turf toe”), gout (yes, you read that right!), and plantar
fasciitis. While these are foot problems, they often radiate up into
the knee. The added stress of limping about has caused my fair share of
knee pain, let me tell you.
I also have literally hundreds of emails every
week asking about
exercise and joint pain — what can be done when you can’t walk (see my
other newsletters below for good answer to this) and, more
to-the-point, what can you do to help prevent these problems to start
with.
I have absolute certainty, both from a writer’s
point of view and a
victim of joint and knee pain myself, that the nutrition plans and
exercise routines covered in Fit Over 40
work wonders at both prevention and relief. Dozens of the people I
profiled as “Role Models” deal with severe joint problems such as
osteoarthritis and various disorders of the bones. One is paralyzed,
and still manages to have a body most would envy! It can be done.
What’s interesting is that more and more research
is coming to the
surface that contradicts what so-called “experts” have been saying for
decades — that exercise “causes” these types of conditions to either
begin or worsen. Hogwash.
There’s no doubt that exercise or activity of any
kind can cause injury
— so can walking across the street or driving a car. Osgood, the
childhood disease I mentioned earlier, is brought on by kids like
myself who were very active and hard on their knees, but even then you
have to have the genes for it. My fellow motocross racers did not have
Osgood, for example.
Other conditions like gout, and even (yes)
osteroarthritis, can be prevented and even reversed through proper
nutrition and exercise, not in spite of it! Below is just one of
the many studies that confirms this.
I’d like to thank Lee Wennerberg, my German
counterpart, for helping
with this issue as I concentrate on the launch of “Scale The World”.
Lee is the creator of the German version of Fit Over 40,
called Fit Über 40, which comes out in 2006.
About “Scale The World”: I’ll be sending each of
you a free invitation
to join this 32-day crusade to end global obesity, fear and reliance on
anyone but the person in the mirror. It’s inpiring as all, but it’s
honest — and honesty demands responsibility, strategy and real answers.
That’s why I spent boo-coo hours and bucks to make this totally free
of charge, with the only “price” being that you share it with
others you care about.
The condition of this world is deteriorating, and
together we WILL do
something about it. I’ll be damned if I’m passing down obesity, a
crushed health care system, a mindset of fear and a “let’s wait on the
next miracle drug” mentality to my kids — and I’ll bet you feel exactly
the same. You wouldn’t be here if you didn’t.
I applaud you all for your resilience, and thank
you for your readership.
Jon Benson
Creator/Co-Author of Fit Over 40: Role Models For Excellence At
Any Age
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