Alberta's Premier Ed Stelmach is quitting. It's not sure yet if that's a good or a bad thing because we don't know who will replace him. But it's a beginning, and optimists as we are we hope things will get better ... ouch, my fingers start hurting from keeping them crossed.
Only 29% of the Canadian military members have a normal weight. The rest is considered overweight or obese! OMG, what are they doing? Nothing obviously, nothing that would keep them fit, sitting in an office chewing muffins over some strategy considerations. Isn't it crazy that all the folks in jobs that used to be considered role models are quickly disappearing and losing respect. It's the same with police forces. When I see how many police officers are not fit looking at all I don't wonder any more why criminals are running around free. How should a fat policeman possibly run behind a thief? It's like having an obese teacher telling children about healthy living. Oh, and only 17% of Canadian men and 14% of Canadian women meet their weekly recommended exercise volume of 150 minutes. For kids the percentage is even lower although I question how they measure it. Watching the kids race around at school recesses I think they should easily get 150 minutes per week. In the end the ratio of sitting and doing other stuff is what matters to me. Even if I took an exercise class every day but sit (or sleep) the whole rest of the day it's not going to be as good as sitting for let's say 8 hours a day, sleep 8 hours and be busy with the kids, household, shopping etc. for the rest of the day. Sitting in the car would account as sitting obviously.
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