All we need is change

I watched the political debates held in New Hampshire last night and I must say I actually listened with both ears. This is the very first time I have ever done this and I have been able to vote in the past 7 presidential elections. My number one concern I have to say is the future of our health care system, after that everything else takes a very close second. Being in the Health & Fitness industry as my profession for the past 26 years, I have always believed that the best health care is the care we take of our own health. With the exception of one or two candidates all of them missed this very important point: American needs to be Pro-Active about their health NOT RE-active. The state of our HC system is a broken mess because people care so little about taking care of the most precious thing they own - Their OWN BODY! I've seen people take better care of their stupid motor vehicles. Which one do you think costs more to fix when it breaks down...DUH! The American public has got to wake up and get a clue here. No president that gets elected this November is going to be able to make the kinds of changes they are standing up and pontificating about now. It would be nice but it's is not going to happen. This country has way too many problems to fix and too many people want to spend time arguing about what is the best thing or the right thing to do rather than actually DO something about it. It's time the people who live in this country be accountable for themselves, take action and make a difference in their own life (and more importantly health) stop complaining and then go beyond that and help someone else. If we all just did even a little bit think of the impact that would have. If everyone paid more attention to eating healthier, moving their body more, keeping their body weight at a healthy number and stopped yelling I tell you that would make an enormous impact on our HC system...people would have to use it less and what a savings that would be. If we all paid a little more attention to being more conscious of the planet and took a bag to the market every single time they went shopping - imagine what the impact would be. It's the little things done that make the biggest changes - and think of the changes that could be made when the little things are done collectively by a whole bunch of people. Now that's change and we wouldn't even have to wait to see who gets to sit in the Oval Office next January to start seeing results from it! Start today - no better time than right now... C ya next time...'till we meet again.