Thanks for your comment. I appreciate your input.

Not sure I agree entirely with you, as I take a look around, at least in various cities across America, I can only see more and more people (children included) that cross the line into obesity - no matter the income class.

I hope you didn’t miss the main point of my post, which was to call attention to the fact I feel being healthy is conducive to greater productivity (greater productivity = increased income/wealth) and, that people shouldn’t think that they have to trade off health for wealth (a lot of people I know do, you probably know a few that do as well).

To your health,

Adam

In my previous post, I am NOT implying that poverty necessarily CAUSES ill health, short live span, or obesity.

But they ARE correlated.

I have my own theories as to why but I’ll spare you my rantings.

Dan

Although I agree somewhat with your comments, statistically you are off base.

The reality is that the poor are the ones who tend to be overweight more than the rich.

As a whole, the “rich” tend to live longer, and take better care of their health…tend to be fitter, than the poor.

Are there exceptions? Many!

But if we’re talking about the rule of thumb, you need to reverse your post. To say rich people are sacrificing their health for the sake of wealth would be incorrect from a general standpoint.

It would be more accurate to say the poor tend to not only neglect their finances (due to upbringing, opportunity, schooling, etc) but their health as well.

Dan

Great comment. I agree with the concept that our society is predicated upon sitting on the time - humans aren’t really engineered to be sedentary creatures.

Send me some info on the 5k.

Thanks!

Adam

The lifestyle here is so much more wrapped around getting everywhere by car - and real walk-able cities are not the norm (although it has gotten better). So you sit all day long either in the office or in the car to get to & from the office - and then you sit some more at the computer or watching TV.
Most of my classmates that spent a high school year in the US came back with quite a few more pounds on their body frames. All the walking and biking to school and pretty much all other activities had been exchanged to getting dropped off and picked up. And the change of diet didn’t help either.

The only attempt of explanation I have in particular for successful business people would be due to traveling and Restaurant food - yet I know that pretty much every hotel has some kind of a fitness center or access to a fitness facility. Though sometimes I wonder why it seems that I am most of the time the only one using it. How much more convenient can you have it: it’s in house! You don’t even have to drive to the gym (this is one of my 5 must-have’s in my dream house).

So I agree this is insane and I am absolutely convinced that wealth without health is impossible. And a normal body weight is a huge part of this. The very consistent approach of being rewarded food/ dinner for a successfully completed project does not help either.

As for corporate America: due to the increased health costs more and more companies sponsor “getting fit activities or programs” in one way or another. Being a so called “Wellness Advocate” myself, we try to encourage more physical activities, energy balance of food input to energy output, and more non-processed food (”strive for 5″ servings of fruit & veggies per day). It’s a start and I truly hope we continue to help change at least a few people’s behavior - even though it may only be temporary.

Hope you are staying fit,
Barbara

The next 5K walk/ run is on September 13th - do you want to join?