We're just not that healthy in Nova Scotia, or anywhere in Canada for that matter. But in Nova Scotia we're bad.

Only 47% of us get enough exercise. That's embarrassing, and sad. It's not hard to do something, anything several days a week. 

On top of that the biggest decline comes from people aged 20-39. In other words the people who should be the healthiest are doing less and less. They might be slipping by now but imagine what our health care bills will be when that group is 50. Through the roof that's where, because they will be in terrible shape by then.

It's getting so bad it's now uncommon to see heart attacks for people between 20 and 30. That just never happened before. Now it's not strange or uncommon.

And things are getting worse. I'm 36 and I remember going to the beach and no one was fat. If you saw an over weight child it was strange. Now when I take my kids, they are the skinniest and people say o me, "They're so thin!" To which I want to say, "No they're what normal should look like."

Take a look at that pic up there. When you were a kid do you ever remember seeing someone so fat they couldn't walk, riding around on a little cart, made for the morbidly obese? Now we see people like that all the time and we accept it. It's time we stopped accepting something some completely wrong.

I'm not saying I dislike obese people. They just need help to recover and there should be programs for that. Instead we wait until they have health issues then we treat the heart blockage or whatever it is and never take a look at the real problem. The fat.

We have a terrible epidemic coming and no one is doing anything about it. Companies aren't helping people to be fit, outside of helping with gym memberships which only 10% of people use. Food companies are looking for ways to make things last longer on the shelves and make you last shorter. We drive everywhere and we hate to sweat.

It's time to give up on the easy road guys. Being healthy isn't going to happen because you think it would be nice and you walk to your car every day, after sitting for eight hours at your desk. You need to make exercise part of your life. You need to get moving. Otherwise we're all going to be very sick and broke from the health care bills soon.

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