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THE LAST WORD<br />
FOLLOW SHAWN<br />
on Twitter: @shawnperine<br />
Get Healthy Now!<br />
Getting muscular is<br />
always worthwhile,<br />
but never at the expense<br />
of one’s health.<br />
EVEN THE M&F<br />
editor in chief<br />
needs to take his<br />
internal health<br />
seriously.<br />
FIVE RULES TO GET HEALTHY NOW!<br />
1 2 3 4 5<br />
EAT<br />
ORGANIC<br />
If not all the<br />
time, at least<br />
do so when<br />
it’s convenient.<br />
SPIKE<br />
INSULIN<br />
NATURALLY<br />
Have honey<br />
or fruit postworkout,<br />
not candy.<br />
MEATLESS<br />
MONDAYS<br />
Try ditching<br />
meat one day<br />
each week.<br />
(meatless<br />
monday.com)<br />
STIMULATE,<br />
DON’T<br />
ANNIHILATE<br />
Train hard,<br />
not too hard.<br />
It worked for<br />
Lee Haney.<br />
MEDITATE<br />
Escape with<br />
yoga or hike<br />
in the woods.<br />
Find a yin to<br />
your gymtime<br />
yang.<br />
FOR MOST OF THE THREE-PLUS<br />
decades I’ve been training, health<br />
concerns took a mega–stretch limo<br />
backseat to my goals of getting peaked<br />
biceps and a six-pack.<br />
This was wrong.<br />
As a young aspiring bodybuilder, I<br />
focused on transforming the appearance<br />
of my body, ignoring internal<br />
needs in favor of my pecs, quads, and<br />
lats. While my muscle myopia did beget<br />
me a respectable physique, it also<br />
begat stomachaches, headaches, and,<br />
I’m guessing, more colds than I would<br />
have had if I focused on food quality<br />
rather than macros alone.<br />
At 50, I now see the folly of my<br />
youthful ways. Though I never dabbled<br />
in chemical solutions for muscle gains, I<br />
did, at times, consume more meal<br />
replacements than meals, ignored the<br />
quality and source of my food, and<br />
gorged myself in an attempt to add a<br />
few pounds of muscle.<br />
Again, wrong.<br />
Yes, it’s important to think about<br />
protein, fats, and carbs. But you should<br />
also question them: Which farm did that<br />
steak come from? Is it one where cows<br />
are injected with hormones and<br />
antibiotics? Were your vegetables and<br />
grains genetically modified or exposed<br />
to pesticides? Does that prepackaged<br />
meal contain chemicals you can’t<br />
pronounce and cheap ingredients that<br />
have low bioavailability or, worse, are<br />
potentially carcinogenic?<br />
I’m not trying to be a buzzkill. Go<br />
ahead and aim to get as big, strong,<br />
lean, and athletic as your heart desires.<br />
But you can do so while also taking<br />
care of your organs not spelled<br />
m-u-s-c-l-e. You’ll feel better and still<br />
have that hard-earned muscle when<br />
you’re 50.<br />
And that’s the right thing to do.<br />
DUSTIN SNIPES
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