EXTREME Nutrition & Tanning

VERY WISE HEALTH ADVICE from LEONARDO DA VINCI

Leonardo Da Vinci: Renaissance painter, sculptor, draftsman, architect, engineer, and scientist. The son of a landowner and a peasant, he was born and raised in the town of Vinci, near Florence. He received training in painting, sculpture, and mechanical arts as an apprentice to A. del Verrocchio. In 1482, having made a name for himself in Florence, he entered the service of the duke of Milan as "painter and engineer." In Milan his artistic and creative genius unfolded. Around 1490 he began his project of writing treatises on the "science of painting," architecture, mechanics, and anatomy. His theories were based on the belief that the painter, with his powers of perception and ability to pictorialize his observations, was uniquely qualified to probe nature's secrets. His numerous surviving manuscripts are noted for being written in a backward script that requires a mirror to be read. In 1502-3, as military architect and engineer for C. Borgia, he helped lay the groundwork for modern cartography. After five years of painting and scientific study back in Florence (1503-8), he returned to Milan, where his scientific work flourished. In 1516, after an interlude under Medici patronage in Rome, he entered the service of Francis I of France; he never returned to Italy. Though only some 15 completed paintings survive, they are universally seen as masterpieces. The power of The Last Supper (1495-97) comes in part from its masterly composition. In the Mona Lisa (c.1503-6) the features and symbolic overtones of the subject achieve a complete synthesis, as did art and science in the unparalleled achievement of Leonardo's career.

The pursuit of health is not a new endeavor.  500 YEARS AGO, Leonardo Da Vinci understood the importance and relative simplicity of maintaining good health.

Leonardo Da Vinci urged, “Learn to preserve your health!” and offered the following specific advice on maintaining well-being:

“To keep in health these rules are wise:

• Beware of anger and avoid grievous moods.
• Rest your head and keep your mind cheerful.
• Be covered well at night.
• Exercise moderately.
• Shun wantonness, and pay attention to diet.
• Eat only when you want and sup light.
• Keep upright when you rise from the dining table.
• Do not be with the belly upwards or the head lowered.
• Let your wine be mixed with water, take a little at a time, not between meals and not on an empty stomach.
• Eat simple food.
• Chew well.
• Go to the toilet regularly!”

Simple advice?  Modern man (and woman) has lost touch with this sort of common sense approach.  Now we look for the next miracle food, vitamin, drug, or piece of exercise equipment.  STOP.  Think. 

Beware.  Especially in the spirit of the New Year.  Every quack, snake oil salesman, and charlatan will try to sell you what you "need" to get back in shape and reclaim your health.  Do not be fooled into giving these thieves your money, time, and attention.

Start with the simple things.  Make adjustments one small step at a time.  Those of you who jump in with a shiny new gym membership, a certified personal trainer, a "miracle" diet, and the magic pill of the week will become overwhelmed and drop out by March.  April the latest.  Then you will start saying how you "need to get going again" before summer - you want to look good in your swimsuit. 

Instead of taking that path (only to repeat it all over again next January 1st), how about starting the process that will have you looking good in your swimsuit for the next 10 years?  How about being happy with your body?  How about getting the right information this time?  How about you stop looking for the easy, too-good-to-be true solutions?

I can tell you 4 unrefutable things that every single "in-shape" person has had to do:

1) Sweat

2) Eat Clean, Healthy Food

3) Drink alot of water

4) Make some small sacrifices

I encourage you to educate yourself.  Seek out the right information and the best teachers.  Use this website as a resource, a portal, a gateway.  There ARE exercise programs that work better than others.  There ARE diets programs that will really help.  There ARE supplements that are worth taking.  Try finding the real answers rather than succumbing to the latest marketing campaign of salesmen trying to take a maximum amount of money while providing you a mediocre result. 

Watch for information on this website.  Examine the websites and books I have taken the time to post for you.  Remember one thing.  The only one standing between you and your goals is - YOU!

Happy Holidays and Best Wishes for the New Year.

Sincerely,

Paul Nutt

EXTREME Nutrition & Tanning

www.bodybyx.com