EXPERTS are urging us to get back in touch with our evolutionary roots and use our bodies as nature intended.
They claim modern society is putting us at higher risk of stress and disease by keeping us indoors and making us too inactive.
Research coinciding with the Blu-ray and DVD release of Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes (which hit stores on Monday, December 12) found that the average British adult walks only half the amount they did 10 years ago and spends between seven and nine waking hours a day sedentary.
With this behaviour being directly linked to increased risk of disease and high blood pressure, we are being encouraged to embrace our biological ancestors.
And to help us do just that, a dedicated ape playground - based on the primate sanctuary featured in Rise of the Planet of the Apes - was set up in in Potters Fields Park, London, to give the British public the chance to 'go ape.'
Footage and pictures from the event are included here.
"There is an ape inside all of us," says Barry Bogin, Professor of Biological Anthropology of Loughborough University. "We have similar biological bodies as apes but we're not using them in the way we should. We are built to swing, move around and be physically active outdoors like apes, but the modern world works against us. People are stressed by over-busy lives; we may be living longer but are less healthy than in the past. We need to recognise and accept our evolutionary roots."
Many of us are taking fewer than 5,000 steps per day, half of what we were 10 years ago, and walking is being replaced by an increased reliance on door to door motorised transport, for journeys we previously walked or cycled. Combined with the further consequence of reduced contact with natural light, the risk of disease and increased blood pressure are significantly increasing, not to mention rising obesity levels.
Bogin adds: "Rise of the Planet of the Apes demonstrates our strong connection with primate...
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[Source: Coventry Telegraph - The Geek Files]
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