I received an email over the weekend with this information, “An alarming new study shows that health care costs increased last year at the fastest rate in more than a half century.  Health care spending rose to an estimated $2.5 trillion in 2009, or $8,047 per person — and is now projected to nearly double [...]

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In late 2006, the revolution began. Unlike the American Revolution and the original colonists creating the 13 colonies, the Million Dollar Body revolution, as it was known then, was begun by 42 “founding colonists” committed to a modern day American Revolution. The “new revolution” was not a war of religion or [...]

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Obesity is not a hidden enemy.  Sadly, however, most people don’t realize that it is our enemy.  It is everyone’s enemy because it threatens our global society.  I am thrilled to know that our team of Beachbody coaches is mobilizing against this enemy and that our teammates are providing ideas, resources and plans of attack.
Patricia [...]

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An Open Letter to My Team of Coaches:
The subject line of this blog, which comes from a CNN headline, is representative of the type of email that you get from a friend who wants to prove to you how our politicians are wasting money.  “Scandalous.  How could they waste our money like that”.  Then they [...]

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We at Beachbody® are at war against the most formidable opponent the United States has ever faced: obesity. It’s killing more people a month than our two other more high-profile combatants—terror and drugs—have killed this decade. Obesity is the Darth Vader of all the
dangers we’ll face in our lifetimes. Smoking once ruled our universe, but [...]

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Obesity contributes to global warming, too.
Obese and overweight people require more fuel to transport them and the food they eat, and the problem will worsen as the population literally swells in size, a team at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine says.
This adds to food shortages and higher energy prices, the school’s researchers [...]

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