This Is Why You're Fat

Jackie Warner is one of my fitness heros. Many of the principles that I apply & incorporate in blogs come straight from her. Her focus is on balance, nutrition that supports the body, and exercising to intensity. She has a new book out, with her same trademark straight-talk called This Is Why You're Fat. An excerpt is below, and it's available on Amazon.com. I highly recommend....

"We are a nation of sick, unhealthy people wasting away & mutating into sad, fat, & lethargic people, just getting fatter & sadder by the second. We are an out-of-control nation with out-of-control waistlines. I have noticed that a mass panic is setting in. I see it every day in the faces of people and desperate emails from around the country. So many people are tired, always dragging, and feeling exhausted. Many are a walking medicine chest, dependent on pills to control everything from high blood pressure to sleep deprivation, and are chronically fatigued and depressed. Others can't climb a flight of stairs or walk a block without gasping for air. Millions of people are alive, but hardly living.

I realize you care mostly about getting thin, not about cholesterol levels. But who wants to be sick, tired, and depressed when you don't have to be? Bagfuls of doughnuts or chips are not worth lessening the quality of your life or shortening it.

The effects of poor nutrition and lack of exercise not only are visible on the outside, but will wipe you out on the inside. It's time to take responsibility and treat your body as the greatest gift you have. It is your calling card to life, and through its energy, you can shine as the person you were always meant to be. The foods you'll learn to eat here and the exercise you'll do will help transform your life in every way."