Save our Kids….save Ourselves
Although nearly two-thirds of Americans are overweight, 83 percent of us say our eating habits are very healthy or somewhat healthy, according to a Thomson Medstat survey. Only 3 percent of Americans characterized their eating habits as “not at all healthy.”
OH REALLY? Then why are we and our children so fat and unhealthy? Could it be that few parents really understand how the so called “Standard American Diet” is so detrimental to our children’s health. Let’s face the facts: We have a national health crisis on our hands. Since we love our children and would do everything in our power to keep their lives healthy and safe, there’s only one possible reason we continue to fill their bodies (and our own) with unhealthy, unsafe food – we don’t really understand what a healthy diet looks like. We have a problem and the good news is…..we can resolve this problem.
Did you know that our children’s generation is the first generation in history that is predicted to fail to outlive its parents? I don’t know about you, but that scared the heck out of me! All you have to do is drive down the streets and count how many fast food restaurants there are in one block. Look at the kids. Kids – all the way from toddlers to teenagers are pudgy. We have a childhood obesity epidemic plaguing our country. That’s the bad news. And the good news is that we have the power to change our fate.
