Taking Control of Your Body – The Only Way to a Longer, Healthier Life
A recent vacation provided us relief from work and our busy schedule and another opportunity to reflect again on the connection between our lifestyle and our health.
We’ve made good progress since the start of the year with healthier eating and regular exercise. We’ve been able to lose weight and our body shape, cholesterol levels and blood pressure have all improved markedly. Not surprisingly though, despite taking some long walks with excellent pedometer readings across the past 10 days we fell into the trap of vacation = more eating and drinking than we needed.
One helpful incentive for us to resume a healthy lifestyle was a letter to the editor of Thursday’s USA TODAY from Dr Steven V. Edelman, Founder and Director of the organization, ‘Taking Control of Your Diabetes’. The connection that we knew existed between obesity and diabetes was reinforced in this open letter. Dr Edelman added that both these medical conditions are affecting Americans at ‘epidemic’ levels.
Like increasing numbers of our friends and workmates, we both have a family history of stroke, high cholesterol and lipid levels as well as recently diagnosed diabetes. We know that to avoid the same medical problems as our parents we must continue to maintain our new and healthy lifestyle .
Dr Edelman’s view about the value of weight management as part of diabetes treatment is important to both the lives of diabetics and to our own. It prompts us to follow our healthy diet and exercise on a daily basis. We read with interest his comment ‘Weight loss, even a modest amount, has been found to significantly help diabetes patients control their disease and live healthier, longer and more active lives’.
We don’t suffer from diabetes and are working to avoid this, however as losing weight helps diabetics to live healthier lives, we feel sure that it assists people like us reduce the likelihood of developing diabetes. The statistics referred to by Dr Edelman, suggest that weight loss can also improve the health options and the well being of many others suffering from either diabetes or obesity.
So our vacation was fun and a relaxing break, but it was also another reminder to us that our decision to take control of how we eat and keep our bodies in good shape is likely to be one of the most important that we’ll make. It's one that everyone can make!
Warm regards
Rowena and Antonio
For The Team
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