Getting fit with a real incentive!
Would you like to make yourself healthier while on the road to winning $1,000,000? That’s SIX zeroes! Well, the You Docs, Mehmet Oz, host of “The Dr. Oz Show” and Mike Roizen of Cleveland Clinic, posed this question to their readers a few days ago and went on to give them a prescription to do it.
And it is not pie in the sky, it is strictly medicine.
Here’s some of the facts they presented:
- Americans spend two to four times as much on health care as Mexico, China, Japan, India and most of Europe. Why?
- Because we have two to four times as much chronic disease. Why?
- Because we enjoy:
- 1) tobacco;
- 2) eating too much;
- 3) sitting too much;
- 4) not managing stress.
Now consider the fallout from one blatant result, obesity: In 17 years, it triggers a tsunami of type 2 diabetes, then heart disease, then cancer.
Pretty bleak statistics, but I don’t think they are really a surprise to many people. It seems like every day the news carries another story on the dangers of obesity and that we need to start getting fit. The problem keeps making the headlines because we, as a people, don’t appear to take it too seriously and no one does anything about it.
Does anyone really think that posting the calorie content on the menus of fast food restaurants is going to make the country go on a fitness kick and start getting fit? I have witnessed some folks order the largest and the most calorie laden item on the menu just because it was the largest and the most calorie laden item available. They’re macho! And fat!
Trying to regulate our eating habits doesn’t make sense to me. Prohibition was tried before and it just didn’t work. An individual’s health has to start with positive motivation – not a negative hit over the head. If you don’t have an inner drive toward a goal, you will never get there. I don’t care if the goal is losing 10 pounds, getting a better job or learning a foreign language. The motivation has to come from within.
What if someone paid you to lose the flab and finally get fit? How much would it take to really, really motivate you?
Would the SIX MILLION Dollars be enough?
If it would, better get right over to the You Docs column in the Sept 28, 2011 Oregonian for the full story and see how losing weight can be a real Win/Win for you.
