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Most of us always say take it easy when we say good by. This is a well-intentioned phrase that makes us think we have told a friend to not work too hard. Surely, one would never tell this =to someone he or she did not like. So it must be an indication of trust, like and potential friendship.

Our doctors also tell us to do the same. They recommend rest and relaxation on almost every appointment. Indeed, almost no one has ever heard that he or she should work harder or sweat it out to become healthier. In fact, one is almost always told to cut back if he or she has the least little thing wrong with them.

If we are health club members, we may see signs cautioning us against  straining, which is evidenced by heavy breathing and sweating. What we are supposed to do is take our workouts easily, going through the motions as it were. Supposedly this is the best for us, but it really is unclear why.

What is this aversion to hard work? Is it so much a part of us because of our American history prior to 1970? To be sure, labor unions had just come to existence within the preceding decades. They were created to prevent against employee abuse by heartless business owners. Prior to that people's jobs were dependent upon doing hard tasks for very long periods. Hence they really did develop what many today think of as a compulsiveness to unbearable labor.

So much for the past. But where are we all in the present? Do the majority of really push beyond our limits all that much? Perhaps we do in professions with deadlines and the need to get others to comply wity expectations. But this is hardly the same as physical hard labor.

Today we seldom ever break a sweat. The same is true for our respiration. It seldom if ever gets to the point of being too much, requiring that we take a breather as it once used to be called. Things just are not the ay they used to be and most wouyld say that today they are better.

All due respect to labor unions and to doctors who care about the welfare of their patients. The same is true for friends who care about each other. But where does all of this leave us in a time which has been characterized as one in which there is an obesity epidemic?

The reader is encouraged to think about this before telling a friend or loved one to do that which may have the potential of adding a few pounds instead of taking them off.

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