Childhood Obesity Epidemic

Michelle Obama gave light to a disastrous thought, yet real issue: our children in this next generation are "on track" to die 5 years before their parents for the first time in history.  I can't even fathom this thought.  When I personally heard this, tears fell...then I got to work. I am determined that my family will not fall in to this category.  Take a peak at the below image taken from the CDC:

If just that wasn't bad enough...last year, the CDC Newsroom presented a press release, “Cancers Associated with Overweight and Obesity Make Up 40 Percent of Cancers Diagnosed in the United States” with more than 630,000 in the United States affected. This report came after the National Institute of Health released news and reports from the New England Journal of Medicine that “Rates of new diagnosed cases of type 1 and type 2 diabetes on the rise among children, teens”, fastest rise seen among racial/ethnic minority groups.

Ladies and gentlemen we are in desperate need of new healthcare leadership, now more than ever before.  We have a HUGE opioid epidemic and an approaching obesity epidemic for our children...all while living in a very wealthy and affluent country.  We need to not believe the commercials and start taking ownership of our environment, food and healthcare.  

My suggestion just to start: 

• Start getting your kids outside a minimum of 2 hours a day
• Throw out EVERYTHING in your house that has high fructose corn syrup.  For more pantry ideas visit www.jenporro.com
• Get in to a functional medicine practitioner 
• See a chiropractor 3 times a year minimally.  These doctors will look at your entire body...head to toe...and treat each of the 9 systems as if they were housed in in the same body (they all relate to each other!) 
• Get involved in a group (a blog, website, gym, church, etc.) that will support your quest to live healthy.    

"The most important thing to know regarding health is that obesity and virtually every other chronic illness are caused by bad lifestyle choices NOT bad genes. Chronic illnesses, including obesity, are caused by living wrong for your species type, by eating, moving, and thinking in ways that do not match the human genetic requirements. The only evidence-based way to prevent or heal from unhealthy lifestyle-caused chronic illness is to learn and implement healthy lifestyle habits.  If you want to get and stay well, you must Eat Well – Move Well – ThinkWell® - you have to Live Right for Your Species Type™." 

Dr. James Chestnut