Thursday, May 19, 2011

Triple Threat

I was reading a commentary from 2009 written by the Senior VP of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He said something important that I wanted to share:

"What we need is not more, expensive treatment; what we really need is less disease." 
- in Health Promotion Practice, April 2009 10 (2)

Time and again studies support that the preponderance of chronic disease, including cancer, is related to tobacco use, being overweight, not being physically active and being too sedentary.

For this reason I offer YOU the triple threat against disease:
1) do not smoke (or quit asap)
2) maintain a healthy weight (by eating low energy dense high nutrient foods -i.e. you can be skinny and unhealthy so just limiting your calories isn't enough)
3) get and stay active

normal weight, no tobacco, physical activity
 - triple threat against disease -

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