J Bravo's Training For Life

From what I've heard, for the first time in U.S. history, the upcoming generation has a shorter life expectancy than the one preceding it. In a nation of medical advances and world-class technology for improving the quality and length of our life, still nothing can take the place of proper diet and nutrition – as evidenced by the facts and figures below:

• Approximately 77 million Americans (27% of our population) are clinically obese
• 65% of Americans are overweight and unhealthy. This number has doubled over the last few decades and has risen 10% in only the last 5 years
• More than 15% of U.S. children are obese – this is the biggest health problem facing our children today
• The U.S. spent an estimated $75 billion to treat obesity in 2003
• Obesity has been labeled a modern epidemic
• Obesity is on the verge of surpassing smoking as the #1 cause of preventable death
• Obesity and being overweight are major risk factors for chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, type-2 diabetes, hypertension, stroke and certain forms of cancer.
• 1 Billion people in the entire world are overweight or obese according to the World Health Org. Heaviest populations include: USA, Egypt, New Zealand, Turkey, Western Pacific Islands. (Time Magazine, Oct. 3, 2005)
• FSU professor links diabetes to Alzheimer's disease - Scientists have discovered an alarming correlation between the Alzheimer's disease and diabetes, both of which are expected to triple within the next 50 years. Dr. Charles Ouimet, Professor of Biomedical Sciences in FSU's College of Medicine, explains that 65 per cent of Alzheimer's patients also suffer from diabetes. Following proper nutritional guidelines may help prevent new cases, Ouimet says.
• http://www.fsu.com/pages/2005/09/09/diabetes_alzheimers.html

I believe that this is just the tip of the iceberg for the list of diseases (or even for diseases that haven't existed yet) that are related to things we could do to save ourselves from it.

Read the statistics. How have we gotten to this point? How long can we be shown the facts yet still do nothing about it and then be surprised when we end up with colon cancer, for example, after having maintained horrible diets forever?

Time is short to make a change. Today is YOUR day to make this change. PLEASE take your life back from fast foods and buffets.