Kelly Cutler

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Kelly Cutler

• PowerPoint Presentation
• Fall K201 2006

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Where do Americans stand with being fit?

• Do we have our priorities straight?
• We need to make time for ourselves?

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In todays society we are faced with many
Americans grossly overweight.

• 1996 2006

Table 2. Age-adjusted prevalence of overweight
and obesity among U.S. adults, age 20-74 years
Age-adjusted by the direct method to the year
2000 U.S. Bureau of the Census estimates using
the age groups 20-39, 40-59, and 60-74 years.
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Healthier Choices

• Less fast food
• More nutritional foods
• -portion control
• -eat more vegetables
• -home cooked meals rather than eating out
• control what we fix our meals with
• -low fat substitutes,oils,butters,
  salts

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Greater than 20-24 of the population in Indiana
is overweight.
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Places to Workout

• Fitness Centers
• -franchises
• -private ownership
• YMCA
• Local Pools
• Private Trainers
• Your Home

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Fitness can be presented differently

• Extreme bodybuilders, triathletes
• Mid-range- members of local gym
• -committed to workout 3-4 times a week
• Occasional- go for walks on weekends

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Benefits

• Heart Healthy
• Active, energetic
• Flexibility
• Social Advantages
• -meeting people in gym
• -joining team sports

• Reduces Stress
• May reduce the need for medications
• Weight control
• -can attribute to lowering blood pressure

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Improves quality of life

• More likely to join in physical play
• -with kids/grandkids
• Adventure rock climbing, whitewater rafting
• Long walks or bike rides vs sitting and watching
  tv

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• People within proper weight range are likely to
  live 33 longer than those that are not.
• It is a well known fact that people within proper
  weight range tend to appear younger than a person
  that is not of average weight.

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Its never to late to start

• Ignoring weight issues will not make them
  disappear
• Thinking about being active and doing it are too
  different things
• Get fit America and enjoy a healthier prolonged
  life because of it.