Everybody has a body, some just look, smell and move differently than others. Live well and long your surely meet all different types of bodies along the way.

There is no body like your body.  Your body has a standard or average weight that is to be maintained for optimal health (BMI).  Depending on weight and height the body mass index or BMI can vary from person to person.  My responsibility as a health specialist is to educate you how to maintain that healthy standard of weight.

I believe Bowling Green has the opportunity to set the standard for health and productivity for the future Commonwealth of Kentucky.  We are an educated young thriving city that can be the example of what it means to be proactive in healthcare and not reactive sitting at the doctors office waiting to die.

Our state is now in the top ten in the nation for unhealthiness.  We are obese, have diseased hearts and lungs, and produce a record number of low birth weight children.  Something has to be done.  I’m  going “all-in” with healthcare education to significantly improve our standard as compared to the rest of the nation for the next two decades.  We will make a difference by helping administer medication more efficiently and helping family and friends be more responsible for what they eat and how much they weigh.

Obesity kills.  Our children eat too much of the wrong things and are now Obese as well.

The whole process starts with body awareness.  What you put in your body (food/drink) will have a direct result to how your body feels and functions.  Each person needs to consume an average of around 1800-2200  calories a day depending on height and age.  Consume more than the ideal recommended allowance for your height and you could become toxic with sugar, triglycerides, cholesterol and fat.

Eating “southern” cooked or fried foods  you will be loaded with such toxins.  Processed foods high in sodium, nitrates and preservatives are also toxic to the body.   Getting a piece of grandma’s homemade dessert could be a toxin as well if you have not kicked in your metabolism sufficiently to burn off the extra calories.

I want to teach people about “body awareness” and how to lose body fat, which starts by “detoxing” the body of extra fats, carbohydrates and sugars.  A person has to be mindful of what goes into the body and how much they want vs. what they need.  There is no other way.  Eat to live, not live to eat.  Choose between quality and quantity.  Quality is more nutritious for the body.  Quantity is to hard on the body because of toxic fat stores.

You have to negate the extra calories (sugar/candy)from the diet if they can not be eaten with control.  You have to be a responsible cookie owner! You have to be in control and accountable for your self.  If you think you need help, help yourself.  Self help is the best help.

About the author:  David has made physical fitness and healthy living a lifelong quest.  He is the owner of a local fitness studio in Bowling Green.  He holds a M.S. in Excercise Science from WKU and is certified by the American College of Sports Medicine.