Tuesday, June 30, 2009

FREE INSURANCE

Yes, I said FREE! When I was asked to join the honorary economics club in college, the fun and functional title of our academic group was TANSTAFF - There Ain't No Such Think As a Free Lunch.

As you get into the workforce, this has a true meaning. A lunch is not a gift. It is a business expense that expects a return.

So where is the FREE insurance? - very simple (like the name of my blog Fitness Made Simple-see I do have a theme running here!) - exercise. Exercises is the only free insurance to preventing a trip or a fall - the number one item for many states for death! Additionally, research has proven that exercise can prevent disease. In fact, the term "disease of affluence" is the blanket term for the diseases that can be prevented. You know those diseases as heart disease, diabetes, etc...

And there is strong research about depression. An article just came out about how our sedentary lifestyle costs us as a society $31 million. I call our sedentary lifestyle our "sedentary sickness".

More about sedentary sickness on my upcoming article about promoting fitness in the hospital environment. Thank you for reading and hopefully digesting my blog (and not a donut!).

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