A recent article in the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/12/health/12heart.html?bl&ex=1227070800&en=0fd3c2f76367617a&ei=5087%0A) got me thinking. We target the 40-60 crowd here at Body for the Ages. Are we focusing on the wrong group? Don’t children need the help more?
The thing is, we teach our children through our example. If we let it be OK for us to be dangerously overweight, we demonstrate to our children that it’s OK for them too. If we constantly reach for the cookie over the celery, we tell our children it is OK for them too. If we spend every afternoon on the couch, we tell our children that’s OK for them too.
If we die early from heart disease, is that one lesson enough to undo all the others? Maybe. But why bet a child’s life on it?
The great thing about our example is that it works in all directions. If we turn around ourselves, we show our kids that they can do. That’s one of the great things about Pax, he shows that you can come back from nearly being dead to become National Bodybuilding Champion. It’s one of the great things about the President-Elect, he shows that any child can grow up to be president.
And that’s what you got to be for your kids. You got to be the example that anybody can get fit. That anybody can achieve the body of their dreams, and reduce their heart risks in the process.
And we will help you do it. Join us here.
