Are you leaving your children a legacy of health?

Are you leaving your children a legacy of health and wellness?

As a nutrition educator, what I have learned again and again, it is not so much what people KNOW, it's the importance put on the little things that you do every day, every day, every day! For example, people KNOW they need to drink half their body weight in ounces of water every day. Or at least they KNOW they need to drink water. They KNOW they need to eat fruits and vegetables, they KNOW they need to exercise, they KNOW they need to stop smoking.

However, they get up, have their coffee, get the kids ready for day care or school, go to work, have another cup of coffee, or drive through Starbucks and have a fancy coffee with lots of sugar, eat a snack out of the vending machine, go to lunch with co workers, have an ice tea with lunch, or a drive through lunch with a soda, back to work, more ice tea, coffee or soda as their digesting that lunch, and feeling the afternoon blah, then it is time to pick up the kids, order a pizza, or drive through dinner, eat in the car and off to cub scouts, or soccer, or karate, then home, and now time for a treat, dairy queen ice cream, candy bar, help them with their home work and start all over again tomorrow!

Do you know this family? They are doing the best they can, right? They are both working hard, where in their day can you see time to cook a healthy dinner, drink half your body weight in water are you kidding me, exercise, and why should they? They are doing OK so far. Mom and Dad are over weight, over stressed, kids are taking prescription drugs for their allergies, ADD, ADHD, asthma, but isn't everyone????

yes, this has become the norm, and as Dr. David Katz has quoted, this may be the first generation not to out live their parents! We are not paying enough attention to nutrition, exercise, stress, water and our children are paying the price!

This family in their mid thirty's today with marginal health, do you think they will be playing with their grand children in the next 20 years? Will they be teaching the grand kids to hike, snow ski, play tennis, ball? Will they be alive to see their grand kids grow up? What will their children be like when they are thirty something? What kind of a legacy are they teaching and leaving their children? So, what can you do?

Learn just one new healthy habit. Just one! Take away one bad habit, make learning a habit and over time you can improve your health, the health of your family and leave your family and future generations a legacy without diabetes, cancer, heart disease, ADD, ADHD, Asthma and the many other degenerative diseases! Make a choice to take control of your health and your future today!

Sherry Fritz
Nutrition Educator for NSA
www.sherryfritz.com
www.nutritiondetectives.com