Taking care of your body.

Every second, every minute and every day that passes, our body is aging and changing. Our heart beat, our lungs breath, our bones and muscles give us the ability to move and do our activities. Our brain is the "motherboard" of this machine, that we are given just one of.
What do you give it back? Seriously, what are you doing to take care of your body to that it keeps giving you what you want, the ability to live.
Think about what you put in it, soda, coffee, fried food, greasy burgers? Our bodies are made of 70% water and the very act of living depletes that water, the lungs evaporate water with every breath, the heart beats our blood which needs water too. Are you drinking enough? At the very least, 64 oz per day....in the Texas summer, much more. What your body does NOT need, is Coke, Dr pepper, or the BIG GULP!! There is no hydration with all that sugar...ever wonder why you are still thirsty?? Again, the body tells you what it needs.
It tell you when to sleep, when to eat (that loud grumble), when it's sick. LISTEN TO THE SIGNS!!

Everyone has a belief, about our creation, and although your belief may differ from mine, I think we may be able to agree that we were put on this earth and have the means to survive from the earth. We can grow fruits, and veggies, and raise animals for our meat. If we made it a focus to eat more food from the produce aisle and less from a box, we would be SO much better and healthier.

Processed foods and preservatives are making us less healthy. We eat it because it's fast and it's easy, and we are working more than ever, whether it be inside or outside the home.
So, in essence, we are demanding more from our bodies while giving it less of what it desires.

Statistics show that the number of people who are considered obese is in the millions, and the number is growing. Our children are obese, and they are still growing!! If you have one parent who is obese, the risk of becoming obese as an adult is about 45% and if both parents are, that number jumps to 75% per the CDC.
I said in my last blog that we want to do what's best for our kids, is that the best we can do??

It's time for a change, it's time to take care of your body, it takes care of you, so pay it forward!
Get moving AMERICA!! There is no time the present.
Take charge !
Thanks for reading.

Barb