The Inspire Millions Challenge!

I read this post today by  Brett Klika CSCS and LOVED it!!  Let's just get up and move.. even a little will go along way!  Know the ingredients in your food.  We can do it!

Inspire Millions Challenge!

Americans are no longer chubby, portly, or overweight.

We are corpulent, obese, and rotund. We don’t move like humans are supposed to move.
We don’t eat like humans are supposed to eat. We are not just merely dying from this plight, we are suffering.
What would happen to a Cheetah if we fed it Cheetos and made it sit idle? It would get sick, it would get depressed It would develop pain, and die.
Why? Because Cheetos are not what Cheetahs are supposed to eat, and sitting idle is not what cheetahs are supposed to do.
As cruel as the above treatment may seem to an animal, many Americans live, embrace, and defend their “right” to this scenario. After all, there is a robust, nearly unchallenged industrial machine to support it. Unchallenged, until now.
This is a call to action.
A much higher calling than sculpting a six-pack, toning thighs, selling gym memberships or slinging miracle supplements.
It’s a call for our society to lift each other up off the couch and move.
It is a call to educate each other to eat food instead of chemicals.
It is a call to INSPIRE MILLIONS to stop suffering and live like humans are designed to live.
You don’t have to be a personal trainer, life coach, or physician to grab a loved one’s hand and say “let’s go for a walk”. How do you know if you are walking fast and far enough? When someone no longer needs to pull you off the couch to go for a walk. You don’t have to be a dietitian, nutritionist, or chef to select food that is actually “food” and not merely a chemically-induced taste. How do you know what “real food” is? The ingredients list should be the food itself. For meat, well, if you know what the animal’s name was prior to being on your plate, it’s probably safe to eat.

We don’t have to be hot, ripped, toned, shredded, sculpted, or beautiful. We need men, women, and children to get off the couch, stop eating poison, and get out of pain. Everyone can contribute. Do something today, right now to change the way you live or INSPIRE someone else to do the same. It may not happen overnight, it may take time. Person by person, household by household, city by city, state by state.
Working together, we can stand up and INSPIRE MILLIONS to be happy, healthy and pain free. After all, that’s how humans are supposed to live.

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Are you at risk for diabetes?

Do you have diabetes?  Do you really know?  What is your fasting blood sugar reading?  Yesterday, Tuesday, March 22, was Diabetes Alert Day and I thought it would be important to cover a little about this silent epidemic, as it is affecting more and more people everyday, young and old.  Did you know one in three adults are at risk for type 2 diabetes?  And our children are gaining on the adults!  Even more astounding statistics, according to the American Diabetes Association, is there are nearly 26 million children and adults that have diabetes and 79 million more have prediabetes.  It costs over $174 billion dollars a year to treat this disease!   It is hard to believe, isn't it? 

Lets look at some risk factors:

• Are you overweight?
• And do you have a second risk factor such as inactivity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, poor eating habits, smoking, gestational diabetes, or if you are of a certain age, race, gender or if you have a family history of diabetes?

What exactly is diabetes?  It is diagnosed when your fasting blood sugar is 126 mg/dl or above.  Prediabetes is if your fasting blood sugar is between 100-126 mg/dl.

Some signs of diabetes: 
Type 1 (insulin dependent)

• Frequent urination
• Unusual thirst
• Extreme hunger
• Unusual weight loss
• Extreme fatigue and Irritability

Type 2 (insulin and/or pills for medication)

• Any of the type 1 symptoms
• Frequent infections
• Blurred vision
• Cuts/bruises that are slow to heal
• Tingling/numbness in the hands/feet
• Recurring skin, gum, or bladder infections

*Often people with type 2 diabetes have no symptoms! 

How do we help prevent or delay diabetes?  You should increase your physical activity.  Gradually at first, if you are new at it, and try to aim for at least 30 minutes per day, five days a week.  If you are overweight, start to work on losing weight.  The good news, you don't need to drop a huge amount of weight to start seeing positive changes!  Make a goal of losing 5-10% of your current weight to start getting the health benefits. 
Also, start eating healthier by reducing your portion sizes (Americas portion sizes are out of control!), and eating a diet with low saturated and trans fats and low in calories.  Easy way to do that? Fill the majority of your plate with veggies! 

Take this risk test provided by the American Diabetes Association to see if you are at risk for prediabetes.  If you suspect you may be prediabetic or diabetic, see your doctor right away to get on a plan.  If you don't think you are, see your doctor anyway, just to make sure! Remember, most Type 2 diabetics don't even know it until it is almost too late!

For more information visit http://www.diabetes.org/