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THE NATURAL EXERCISER

Major changes in values have affected our attitudes towards sports and performance. Professionalism in sporting activities has precluded participation for sheer pleasure and excitement at being the-best-wecan-be, now replaced with the overwhelming desire only to beat one’s competitors.

Drugs and doping, consuming chemical substances to enhance performance, to gain the competitive edge over others, to win at all costs, are endemic today. Societies condone the hunt for instant gratification, making it easy to turn to the technological innovations of laboratories to achieve combative

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