I am not sure people realise that healthiness (one’s fitness regime) is intimately tied up with one’s philosophy of life. Maybe people don’t actually think they have a philosophy of life, but we all do. This is why many Eastern religions (and we may perhaps say all religions are basically philosophies or comments upon life) have a deep regard for how we look after our bodies. The whole martial arts scene started in India started as a series of religious exercises meant to prepare the mind and body for religious duties.
They seem to me to come together very closely in a method of exercise called ‘Standing Still, Keeping Fit’. A way of standing which pits the muscles of one’s body against gravity. A method which means the longer you can keep your poise the stronger your muscles have to be. But there is more yet to these exercises which are bound up with how one lives, because actually to keep fit in the main merely means you should eat to your personal requirements. We are very bound up with several meals a day in the West but for sedentary lifestyles one meal a day is adequate.
But just as exercises are all to do with how we think so too is eating. We get it right for ourselves when we get our philosophies right.