Who, me? Couldn't be!

There's a wide spread deficiency in the world and its called personal responsibility. In today's world you can spill hot coffee on yourself and sue the people from whom your purchased it, as if you'd prefer to sip mildly warm coffee. CEOs can mismanage their companies with horrible unethical business practices and escape under the cover of a monstrous bailout plan. This could go on forever, but the point I'd like to get to is our health.

Fortunately our health is within our grasps. But we've given that up with all the other responsibilities. "It's in my genes" is the excuse. Today we believe we can't do anything about our weight because our parents were fat too. With that attitude we've freed ourselves to consume absurd amounts of nutrient-less, high calorie junk food while we sit in front of our tv's or computers. All this is guilt free because it's not my fault I have fat genes.

Unfortunately, an increased waistband is not the only perk of an activity-free lifestyle. Muscles begin to atrophy and dysfunction ensues. Eventually this becomes painful and the easy solution is a muscle relaxant and/or pain reliever pill. Many of us will reach for this cover up, but it does nothing for the actual problem. It takes exercise to build muscle strength and regain proper nervous control. This is something no one else can do for you. To obtain those results it takes personal responsibility and commitment to your health.

Today's society needs to take control of their health. Don't wait for symptoms to appear, we need to be proactive. We need to take the steps in the form of diet and activity (lifestyle) to prevent disease. This is not something anyone else is going to help us with, our government is certainly in no rush to encourage insurance companies to cover health maintenance programs to promote the prevention of disease. The results of improved lifestyle would reach far beyond our waists. Our self image and confidence would be greatly improved, rates of depression could potentially decrease, relaxing our reliance on our Prozac prescription which would ease up on our monthly budget. See where this is going? Whether we like it or not, healthcare is a business in today's world. And like so many of today's businesses it's being poorly managed and it's only a matter of time before it goes bankrupt. Unless someone starts taking some responsibility.