Hi Perfect 10ers!

Hope everyone has had a great start to the New Year and is on their way to Perfect 10 health! I wanted to introduce myself: my name is Lyron Bennett and I am going to be the lead question wrangler and head cheerleader for you folks. I am the one who will be answering all of your questions and just generally cheering you along on this journey. I will be posting answers to your questions as they come in (if I know the answer) or quickly afterward (if we need to consult Dr. Aziz). We are starting to get great community response both here and on the Facebook page (and I know many of you are following us on Twitter as well) and I just wanted to say…Thank You!!! More recipes will be coming this week too! Stay tuned. The other thing that I wanted to share with you was the recently released comprehensive study on Obesity in America done by the CDC (which can be found here: http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/index.html) which has some profoundly disturbing news in it. The study states that “one out of every three American adults is obese, and two out of every three are overweight” and that children’s predisposition to obesity have increased dramatically in the last 25 years. Along with this increase in weight has come an increase in heart disease and diabetes, along with a myriad other health problems.

The CDC study is both informative and frightening, and should prove a great resource for people like school superintendents and policy makers looking to help change the way their communities eat while at community events or in school, but for the rest of America there are some things this study leaves out: