Are you a student of health or disease?

As my family and I enjoyed a few nice days in Estes Park this weekend, I was disappointed to see a strong representation of the "state of our populus."

"What is that," you say?

Last week we, Colorado, were rated the number one state for the lease amount of overweight and obese americans.
What I saw in Estes Park was more of the average american who represented the "state of our populus," which...

• As of last week, 25% of Americans are now obese, which doesn't include the 40% who are considered "over weight." That's 65% of our population being overweght.
• Showed the continual increase in percentage of adolescents age 12-19 years who are overweight: 17, and the continual increase in percentage of children age 6-11 years who are overweight: 19!

When is this going to stop? When are people going to be awakened to the fact that they are quickly killing themselves and their children?

People we need to stand up for health and fitness and it starts with you!

YOU need to teach your kids how to make good food choices; YOU need to teach them how to exercise and how to value fitness; YOU need to teach them the importance of making responsible decisions in times when it is easy to make poor ones; YOU need to get over yourself and begin to think about how important it is to be a good role model so you can guarantee your childrens' and grand childrens' health for all generations to come!

After all, your kids health is more important than anything else you can teach them, PERIOD!

Without good health, your child cannot fully develop from a child to an adult; without good health your kids will not develop to their full mental and emotional abilities; without good health your kids will not be able to fight disease; and they will especially not be able to function at the fast pace that this world expects them to be able to! Should I continue?

In the end, this is a call to YOU. A call to get over your laziness about taking care of yourself. A call to stop making excuses as to how you think that you don't have the time each day to take care of yourself. A call to you, one person at a time and one family at a time, to begin the process of changing the numbers I presented above!

Let's become a different number than those statistics that state how many Americans will get cancer, heart disease or diabetes this year. Let's become part of an increasing number of those who are 'teachers" of good health instead of students of disease.