Cost of health..and a grand Slam Breakfast!

We talk about getting healthy and eating better and exercising. But do we really look at the financial benefits! I mean think about the major illness’s in the country and the many reasons why people are sick or dieing young. The major diseases or illness’s are obesity related items. Besides the fact that more than 50% of the children in the U.S. are considered obese and will be listed as Morbidly Obese before they graduate High School (if they live that long), this coming generation will be the first generation who will outlive their parents because of obesity related deaths! If that isn’t reason enough to make a change look at the fact that by getting healthy we can save about 10,000.00 a year per family in doctor visits, tests E.R. visits, CPAP Machines etc. That estimate is probably pretty low as well. I realized the other day that an estimated 18 Million people in the United States are diagnosed with Sleep Apnia. This number has dramatically increased along side with the increase of Obesity rates in this country. Think about that. You might as well start handing out CPAPS to kids when they graduate High School, it would save time!

Growing up I remember spending some summers with my grandparents. They were old school farmers and I remember my grandmother getting up every morning at 5 a.m. and making bacon, eggs, sausage biscuits and all that greasy unhealthy stuff for my grandfather. He then went out and worked the fields and worked hard. Probably burning off more then the calories he took in that morning. You see at some point because of the amazing ingenuity we have developed we have become stationary creatures! We find ways to make machines do or job or to simplify it so we actually do less work! The problem is when still consume the same if not more calories because now we have nothing to fill that extra time with but eating! It’s a vicious cycle and is painfully obvious to the point that we just ignore it! If I don’t look at it I can’t worry about it! My last post and the one before that was about running and that man was BORN to run. We were designed and created to be creatures of forward mobility..yet we fight it all the way! STOP FIGHTING IT. GET OFF YOUR BUTTS AND GET MOVIN!