The Healthiest States in the US: Where Does Yours Rank?

The Healthiest States in the US: Where Does Yours Rank?

If you are living in the United States, the above link provides access to a very sobering article about how our states rank in terms of healthy living, and what some of our major risk factors are for bad health.  We are unfortunately at a time in history where we are living longer lives, but our population is actually becoming sicker due to diseases that can be preventable; diseases such as, hypertension, diabetes, and heart disease.

I encourage you to read through this article and think about some of you and your family's lifestyle habits.  Where do you and your family stand in terms of healthy living (i.e. dealing with stress, reducing exposure to unhealthy chemicals, etc.)?  Have you identified your eating habits and are you trying to change those that are detrimental to your health?  Have you begun an exercise regimen that you can stick with over the course of your life to maintain health?  Most importantly, what are you doing to spread what you know about the importance of exercise and healthy eating to others who may need your help in making serious life changes?

I think the most interesting part of this article was the last sentence, a quote from one of the contributors to the health report mentioned in the article, Dr. Tuckson.

"As important as insurance and access to medical care are, the key thing is to be controlling fundamental risk factors."

Our "fundamental risk factors" include anything leading to a sedentary lifestyle, namely, lack of exercise and healthy eating.  So I ask again, what are you (and I) doing to take personal responsibility for our health while helping others to do the same?