Couch Potato Secrets

Being a couch potato is a product of different factors.  People who has retired from their jobs who needs rest from their previous busy lifestyle are more likely to become couch potatoes.  Well, they deserve to be on the couch because they have been so busy all their life earning for a living.  Couch potatoes also are a result of the technologies developed in the modern world.  Things became handy, thus, you can do multiple tasks at a time without getting much of physical effort.  Being a couch potato could also be a result of the environment where a person has grown up.  If people around you are mostly a couch potato, then, you are susceptible to the couch potato lifestyle.

Knowing these factors, we can prevent not only ourselves from being a couch potato but children as well.  Children’s personalities are molded in their young age.  So it would be easier to prevent them from being a couch potato while they are young.  Encourage them to get involved in various physical activities such as joining sports activities or community services.  We can influence them in getting interested in these activities while they are young.  Also, do not let them get exposed with television too much.  Kids can be easily get hooked with television.  You can set house rules on when they can watch television.

There is nothing wrong being a couch potato, as long as a person is responsible with his health.  It has been know that most couch potatoes has health problems.  Do not wait for these problems to come and cure it.  Instead, try to prevent it.  It is only a matter of time management and getting yourself motivated to get physically active.

Here is an interesting true story that would help us realize why we need to get healthy:

EDMONTON - Jim Jerome has been a pack-a-day smoker his whole adult life. He’s also a couch potato. “I’ve never even walked playing golf,” he says.

He’s sort of disgusted with his health, “but I’ve been able to get away with it for whatever reason. I don’t exercise, I don’t gain weight. I smoke, and my family has no heart disease.”

Then his 10-year-old daughter Sydney came home from school and told her dad that according to what she learned in science class he was killing himself by smoking and she wanted to know why? With teary eyes she also asked him when he was going to stop?

“I said ‘Dad, I’m worried,’ ” she remembers.

“That got me right in the guts, you know?” says Jerome.

“My kids are too old now not to understand what I’m doing to myself and it’s a joke to tell your kids not to smoke when you smoke.

“If I expect my kids to stay healthy then I’ve got to lead by example, otherwise they’ll become less active watching me, is the problem. It would be horrible if they smoked because they saw me smoke.”

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We may sometimes not know it but people close to us are affected of our lifestyle.  Wouldn’t it be a shame if your kid will be the one who would tell you that what you are doing is unhealthy or that is not the right thing to do?  Let us not wait for them to tell us that what we are doing is wrong.  As kids, we teach them the right things that they must do and believe.  Thus, we must also live with the things that we teach them and be a good example to them.