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(Posted January 1, 2012) "Smoking and obesity account for the most frequent preventable causes of morbidity and mortality in the United States, and 9 million adults (4.7% of US adults) report having both a body mass index of more than 30 kg/m2 and smoking cigarettes. Overweight adult women are also more likely than men to be current smokers. Compared with nonobese adolescent girls, obese adolescent girls have more than twice the risk for high-level nicotine addiction in young adulthood." "Heavy smoking in midlife more than doubles the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other forms of dementia 2 decades later." "...poor fitness level accounted for about 16 percent of all deaths in both men and women. This percentage was significantly higher than when other risk factors were considered, including obesity, smoking, high cholesterol and diabetes. The Aerobics Center Longitudinal Study also found that moderately fit men lived six years longer than unfit men... women who were very fit were 55 percent less likely to die from breast cancer than women who were not in good shape." "...early nutritional influences during fetal life, infancy, and youth, such as famine and starvation can increase the risk for cardiovascular disease in adult life. Undernutrition in early life may harm cardiovascular health in adult life." "Children who get more sleep, even if it's only "catch-up" sleep on weekends, may be protected against obesity and other metabolic problems,....those who slept the least and had the most irregular sleep schedules were over 4.4-fold more likely to be obese,... Short nights and variable sleep patterns were also linked to altered levels of insulin, LDL cholesterol, and the inflammatory marker high-sensitivity C-reactive protein. Even just an extra half hour of sleep per night might lower body mass index (BMI) and reduce the metabolic effects that predispose to diabetes and cardiovascular disease later in life. Not getting enough sleep could cause changes in neuropeptides that regulate appetite -- raising ghrelin and reducing leptin -- and lead to more eating and obesity. "If you want your child to be happy and to succeed, prioritize sleep,...Optimal sleep is associated with better attention, better ability to learn, and better memory." "Constant bitterness can make a person ill, .... Persistent bitterness may result in global feelings of anger and hostility that, when strong enough, could affect a person's physical health. Unlike regret, which is about self-blame and a case of "woulda, coulda, shoulda," acrimony points the finger elsewhere — laying the blame for failure on external causes. "When harboured for a long time,...bitterness may forecast patterns of biological dysregulation (a physiological impairment that can affect metabolism, immune response or organ function) and physical disease." "You can't choose your family or the genetic cardiovascular risk they pass on to you. But you can choose your diet -- and that may be enough to mitigate the deleterious effect of the genes...a "prudent" diet -- one rich in raw vegetables and fruit -- can markedly reduce the genetic risk of heart attack and cardiovascular disease." "Increasing the daily intake of green leafy vegetables could significantly reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes,...Consuming 1.35 servings of these vegetables per day was associated with a 14% reduction in risk compared with consuming only 0.2 servings." "Replacing calorie-laden beverages with water or diet drinks may be effective at shedding weight and improving other cardiometabolic parameters in the short term,...Those in the water group had significantly greater improvements in systolic blood pressure and fasting glucose compared with the controls (P<0.05 for both)." "Patients with type 2 diabetes who followed an intensive lifestyle-intervention program aimed at achieving and maintaining weight loss and fitness achieved those goals and showed significant improvements in blood pressure, glycemic control, and some lipid measures over four years." "Exercise has many benefits, including boosting the immune system, decreasing inflammation in the bowel, and helping to reduce insulin levels — regular exercise can substantially cut the risk of bowel cancer. The American Cancer Society (ACS)...recommends at least 30 minutes of at least moderate activity on 5 days or more per week, and says that 45 to 60 minutes of intentional physical activity is preferable." “Whether we mean to or not, we influence public and personal health in all aspects of our lives,..Health – good and bad — is communicable, and it is the responsibility of every citizen, especially those of us with leadership roles in any sector or industry, to act on this.”

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