Baby Boomers Appear to Be Less Healthy Than Parents

Multiple problems here. Some of them may even be real. Here are two likely ones.

BTW, remember: "Fitness is the only REAL preventive medicine"^tm

1. Overweight/Obesity

"Boomers are healthier in some important ways -- they are much less likely to smoke, for example -- but large surveys are consistently finding that they tend to describe themselves as less hale and hearty than their forebears did at the same age. They are more likely to report difficulty climbing stairs, getting up from a chair and doing other routine activities, as well as more chronic problems such as high cholesterol, blood pressure and diabetes...

While cautioning that the data are just starting to emerge, researchers say the findings track with several unhealthy trends, notably the obesity epidemic. Two-thirds of Americans are overweight, and those extra pounds make joints wear out more quickly, boost cholesterol and blood pressure, and raise the risk of a host of debilitating health problems. And despite all those gym memberships, baby boomers tend to be less physically active than their parents and grandparents, their daily routines often dominated by desk jobs and the drive to and from work."

I already told the world how to fix this one, why expert diet advice is misdirected and must continue to fail, how the experts are killing us and our children and how to save yourself and your family while others follow the Pied Pipers of Poundage.

If you need help and are interested in living a life of greater participation, go to www.FitnessMed.com

If you want to save your kids, go to www.FitToParent.com

If you want to be fooled into sickness and death by flabicide, stick with the advice of the diet experts, e.g., diet gurus, medical doctors, medical centers, osteopaths, chiropractors, the government, psychologists, pharmaceutical companies, dietitians, trainers, nutritionists, Oprah, etc.

2. Stress

"In fact, boomers tend to report more stress than earlier generations -- from their jobs, their commutes, taking care of their parents and their kids -- all of which can take a physical toll, which is compounded by having less support from extended families and communities, experts say."

Part of the propaganda is that stress is bad.

This is another lie likely designed to make you think you are sick so you will buy products.

Stress is the stuff of growth and change. In fact, where there is no stress, there is no progress.

Stress is good. At worst, stress is neutral. It is possible that the problem lies in one's relationship to stress.

If you repeat it is bad, then it becomes bad.

If you believe the marketers, you fall prey to what they repeat in order to make you sick and separate you from your money.

I don't mean to get all Buddhist on you, but if you recognize that stress is neutral to good, your relationship to it may improve. (FYI, I am not Buddhist.)

Give it a shot instead of seeing a doctor for a shot.