Eddie Baran's Body Sculpting Blog

When I was in China earlier in the month, we took a trip to Tiantan Park. This was definitely one of the highlights of the trip. When we went it was near freezing and early in the morning. Yet there were plenty of people exercising in the park.

And they were doing all sorts of different activities: tai chi, ballroom dancing, modern dance, martial arts, yoga, games, you name it and there was usually a large group of people doing this.

Funny thing, though, was that the vast majority of the people doing this were over 60 years old. These folks were in excellent shape. Just how good? Well, check out this guy below:

We asked him his age and he told us he was 83. Most 23 year olds can't do this and this fella is at an age when most Westerners are either dead or can barely move. This man is truly an inspiration. This is amazing flexibility for anyone let alone someone 83.

Interesting thing was, though, that I didn't see any young people in the park exercising. It might have been that they were all at work and I was seeing retired people. That might be the case but I have the feeling that this is also a generational issue. That most young people in China, like in the States, don't exercise. They haven't built the habit and might never. Youngsters think they are going to be fit and flexible forever and have no idea that they're headed for stiffness and weakness unless they start exercising.

Thing is, though, that it doesn't matter when you start, be in 8 years old or 80. You can too. But you've got to start, no matter where it is.

Wishing you the best,

Eddie Baran

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Last week when I was in China, I noticed that there's a big split
between the old and the new. On the one hand there was the healthy old
China. Lots of fresh fruits and vegetables. I saw vendors on the street
selling fruit on a stick.

As an American this concept seemed so foreign to me that is was almost
cutting-edge. We eat everything else on a stick - namely junk food - so
why not fruit?

Then we have the newer China where you have the influx of American fast
food. McDonald's and KFC on every corner. But I couldn't resist. Just
how does KFC in China compare to that in the States.

Well, I had to find out. I hadn't had KFC in almost 10 years since it's
some of the most disgusting food out there. And I'm just talking about
the taste, not its nutritional value. Nothing wrong with having some
junk food every once in a while, but I could never stomach the Colonel.

So Matthew Furey, Doug Doebler and I ventured into a Shanghai KFC to
experiment. Doug watched while Matthew and I polished off almost an
entire bird. Yes, it was actually pretty good and didn't resemble what we
have here in America. I still would classify it as junk food but it's not
as fatty, greasy, grisly or disgusting as the American version.

But you can tell the new generation is loving this food a little too
much because they have flabby bodies. Although they're not big people,
many are mostly fat and have little muscle. Is the new Chinese food
American fast food? I don't know, but it looks like a lot of Chinese people
have been eating too much of it.

It's okay to partake in junk food once in a while; you don't have to be
100 percent pure all of the time. But you do need to get plenty of
fruits and vegetables. The more fruits and vegetables you eat the less
harm an occasional trip to KFC will do. It'll just be a small blip on the
radar. And the wilted slice of iceberg lettuce in your Big Mac doesn't
count as a serving of vegetable. You need a lot better than that.

And the beauty of fruits and vegetables is that you can eat as much as
your heart desires and you'll always be healthy. The more you eat, the
better you'll be.

Wishing you the best,

Eddie Baran

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I just returned from a 10-day trip to China with friends and colleagues
- coach Matthew Furey, real estate wizard Doug Doebler and media mogul
Jim Whelan. Turns out China is my kind of town. Instead of Red China,
it's more like Ed China.

China was nothing like how we read in books. In the west we're told
it's a backward repressed country, something straight out of Mao's
Cultural Revolution. But it sure seemed different than that to me.

It was pretty progressive with a nice free market economy, where
capitalism is the name of the game not communism. Chairman Mao's probably
spinning in his grave like a centrifuge. Good. Whirl away.

Anyway, when it came to health and fitness I discovered a lot of things
about the Chinese - how some of them ate, exercised and took care of
their health. More on this later, so keep tuned for some cool things.

Wishing you the best,

Eddie Baran

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