Texoma Living Well Magazine Spring 2015 | Page 20

How We’re Killing Ourselves by Not Making Small Adjustments to Improve Our Health By Dr. Tyler Cooper So the question is If simple changes can make dramatic differences in one’s health, why aren’t more people fit? Why are we seeing so much obesity and disease? T wo-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese and a shocking one-third of our children are. The sad fact: this leads directly to diseases like type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and many kinds of cancer. The reason for this obesity epidemic is simple: Americans are eating more and more of the wrong kinds of foods and exercising less and less. As a result, we’r H