Ya Gotta Exercise!

Lately, Clint and I have become a bit too knowledgable about food. We read all the nutritional information we can find about what is healthy and what should be avoided -- especially the things that can help prevent cancer. The funny thing is that eating a lot of one type of vegetable may decrease the risk for one type of cancer, but then increase the risk for another type. Go figure! One thing that all the experts seem to agree on, however is that we should eat five servings each day of fruits and vegetables. So... we do our best to take care of that, although we sometimes can't agree on whether or not french fries should count as a "veggie."

In a recent edition of Heal magazine, I read something that made my eyeballs bulge, "Even if a (cancer patient) is overweight, if she eats at least five servings of vegetables and fruits a day and walks briskly for 30 minutes, six days a week, her risk of death from her disease goes down by 50 percent... The key is that you must do both." Well, guess who is on the treadmill now every day for 30 minutes!!! I've included a photo of me on the treadmill, and ask that you keep this picture in your mind when you have your daily prayer time. Pray that I will not come up with lots of excuses as to why I don't have time, or the energy, or whatever might interfere with this very, very important practice. Pray that I will faithfully step on the treadmill for my 30 minutes of brisk walking each day until it becomes a part of who I am -- and a habit that I simply am unable to break.