<font size="5" face="Arial"><font color="Green">Get Fit Through Gardening</font> <font color="Green">Versus Traditional Diet & Exercise</font></font></center> <table border="1" cellspacing="0" bordercolorlight="#800000" bgcolor="#FFFFCC" cellpadding="6"> <tr> <td> <p align="Center"><font color="Maroon"><b>Traditional Diet & Exercise</b></font></td> <td> <p align="Center"><font color="Maroon"><b>Get Fit Through Gardening</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td>1) Easy, no effort</td> <td>Embrace physical aspect; garden with more focus, intensity.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2) Quick, days & weeks</td> <td>Success is measured in seasons, years and decades.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>3) If not perfect, why bother?</td> <td>Neither a perfect garden or a perfect garden is necessary. What makes sense to you and makes you happy is paramount.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>4) One specific exercise, food or pill.</td> <td>Holistic approach, aerobic exercise, strength training, variety of motions and activities, free form - not one but many ways.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>5) Others help you (doctors, experts)</td> <td>You help yourself. Take personal responsibility for your well-being</td> </tr> <tr> <td>6) Treat symptoms and diseases</td> <td>Prevent illness with healthy lifestyle.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>7) Focus on problems</td> <td>Focus on an inexpensive, easy to start solution.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>8) Poorly designed garden tools</td> <td>Ergonomically designed garden tools.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>9) Only exercise and sports for fitness</td> <td>Exercise while doing something useful and meaningful (planting a vegetable garden, trees or wildflowers)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>10) Less thought (repetitive, one way)</td> <td>More thought, constant learning mode, multi-disciplinary.</td> </tr> </table> <p align="Center"><b><font size="2" face="Arial" color="#008000">For more information, my books, </font><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781578262687" target="_blank">Get Fit Through Gardening (2008) </a></font><font size="2" face="Arial" color="#008000">and <a href="http://ritecode.com/aerobicgardening/dyngardening.html"><i>Fitness the Dynamic Gardening Way</i></a>, are available!</font></b></p> <p align="center"><img src="moveline1.gif" align="Middle" alt="line" border="0" width="600" height="1"></p> <blockquote> <blockquote> <p align="Center"><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="main.html" target="main">Get Fit Through Gardening Home Page</a> |<b> <a href="http://ritecode.com/aerobicgardening/nutshell.html">In a Nutshell</a></b> | <a href="http://ritecode.com/aerobicgardening/overview.html">Overview</a> | <a href="http://ritecode.com/aerobicgardening/misconceptions.html">Misconceptions</a> | <b><a href="http://ritecode.com/aerobicgardening/exerday.html">National Gardening Exercise Day</a> </b>| <a href="http://ritecode.com/aerobicgardening/links.html">Get Fit Through Gardening links</a> | <a href="http://ritecode.com/aerobicgardening/sports.html">vs sports</a> | <a href="http://ritecode.com/aerobicgardening/thighmaster.html">/Swap for a thighmaster offer</a> | <a href="http://ritecode.com/aerobicgardening/topquest.html">Top Questions</a> | <a href="http://ritecode.com/aerobicgardening/tradgard.html">Traditional Gardening</a> | <a href="http://ritecode.com/aerobicgardening/jan2000.html">Jan2000 article</a> | <a href="http://ritecode.com/aerobicgardening/feb2000.html">Feb2000 article</a> | <a href="http://ritecode.com/aerobicgardening/myturn.html">My Turn article</a> | <a href="http://ritecode.com/aerobicgardening/topquest.html">Top Questions</a> | <a href="http://ritecode.com/aerobicgardening/whatdotoday.html">What You Can Do Today</a> | <a href="http://ritecode.com/aerobicgardening/stretching.html">Stretching Program</a> | <b><a href="http://ritecode.com/aerobicgardening/dyngardening.html">Dynamic Gardening</a> </b>| <a href="http://ritecode.com/aerobicgardening/biography.html">Biography</a> | <a href="http://ritecode.com/aerobicgardening/politics.html">Politics</a> | <a href="mailto:ritecode@ritecode.com">E-Mail</a></font> </blockquote> </blockquote> <p align="Center"><a href="main.html"><img src="98_bon.gif" align="Middle" alt="Balance of Nature Publishing" border="0" width="287" height="15"></a> <div align="center"> <table cellspacing="3"> <tr> <td><font color="Maroon" size="2" face="Arial">Balance of Nature Publishing </font></td> <td><font color="Maroon" size="2" face="Arial">Phone: (901) 517-1705</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font color="Maroon" size="2" face="Arial">7204 Deventer Cove</font></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font color="Maroon" size="2" face="Arial">Memphis TN 38133</font></td> <td><a href="mailto:ritecode@ritecode.com"><font face="Arial" size="2">Email: Jeffrey Restuccio</font></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="http://ritecode.com/aerobicgardening/home.html"><font face="Arial" size="2">Home Page</font></a></td> <td><font color="Red" size="2" face="Arial">This page updated <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" s-type="EDITED" s-format="%B %d, %Y" startspan -->March 17, 2008<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" i-checksum="17635" endspan --></font></td> </tr> </table> </div> </body> </html>