Health-A Matter of DAILY Choice

I landed in Atlanta the other day and hopped on our MARTA train towards the suburbs where my family awaited. On the wall of the MARTA car there were two posters. One was pushing a Southern favorite--fast food chicken biscuits. The poster right next to it was pushing a family health and wellness program. How ironic I thought. This is daily life in America! We have daily choices to make. We choose behaviors that enable us to be healthy, or we choose chicken biscuits that literally poison our bodies with trans fats and preservatives along with excessive fat. Usually, we are inundated with the bad health messages vs. healthy messages. It's a battle to be healthy and fight the status quo of fatness and ILL culture--obesity abounds! It's worth it to resist the biscuits. Carry on the good fight. From a 92 degree HOTlanta today. See y'all in Midtown tonight. Say hi! We'll hit some one-arm push ups in da club! Ragin' RJ

Huntington Beach-Physical Culture

I was running at Huntington Beach last week. I did some grass body-weight strength after my sand run. A group of girl soccer players were there finishing warm-up drills. They went for a "two-mile" run to finish. I had to reflect...I can't remember the last time I saw or heard about a bunch of 10-12 year old girls running two miles. None of them were obese. They looked pretty healthy and happy--even when they finished! Think there is a coorelation? Probably.

Hanging in HB is a "Physical Culture" because people are moving! I saw many 70+ men riding bikes, people running, walking, surfing, etc. And of course, as usual when I'm in Surf City, I went to my favorite yoga studio and got my ass kicked again by the surfer chicks! Ahhh...but it's a good pain! People are alive in well in HB...it was refreshing to see some fitness instead of fatness for a change. From surf and sand...Ragin' RJ!