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Book Review: The Culprit and The Cure

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“The Culprit and The Cure” is a pleasure to read and is full of useful information. This book is written with straight forward common sense, intelligence, and a touch of humor. It is a great book to add to your health and fitness library.

In the past decade the amount of scientific information available on the importance of regular physical activity and good nutrition has grown dramatically. Currently, there is a huge gap between what is known scientifically about healthy living and what most citizens of the U.S. and other Westernized countries actually do. Only 20% of Americans have a good diet and most fail to get enough physical activity to get the benefits.

According to the author some disease that take a lifetime to develop and ultimately end in death can be prevented.  These include heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s and others.

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Diabetes: A family history

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My strong history

I grew up knowing my dad as a diabetic person and as a young lad I had zero knowledge of what the disease was or how it affected people and change lives.  I grew up in a place rich in history, from the foods we eat to the lifestyle we lived.  As I got older I became more aware of what diabetes was and that it runs deep in my family.  My dad has it, my sister was recently diagnosed, my brother was tested to be pre-diabetic, two uncles of mine died from it, a cousing who is also diagnosed positive. There could be more but that’s much as I can recall. As for myself, I too have been diagnosed as a pre-diabetic person.

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Note to Michelle Obama

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Yesterday First Lady Michelle Obama onveiled her campaign against childhood obesity.  In it she mentioned that one of her main goal is to ask teachers, coaches, Physicians and parents particularly moms to actively get involved.  The First Lady suggested they go to her campaigns website to get more information, ideas and tips. This is a website that has links to other website with more information, tips and ideas. Although this is a noble cause and a great idea I’m afraid it is just another re-iteration of what’s already out there.  One of the suggested websites, The President Fitness Challenge (http://www.presidentschallenge.org/) is the only one that is compelling and interactive. continue reading…

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New beginning for 2010

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I am a strong believer in words that I live by. 2010 is a new year for new beginnings and I am adding five new words to my list. In my opinion these are definately words that can be applied to all aspects of your life.  I would like you to apply them to your 2010 lifestyle and behavioral change action plan. 

These five new words are:

  1. Faith
  2. Belief
  3. Adaptation
  4. Trust and
  5. Synchronicity

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