Posted by Free Hawai`i on January 22, 2010 at 12:00am
Hawaiians suffer the worst health profile in Hawai`i.While rates of death from heart disease, cancer, stroke and diabetes have decreased for non-Hawaiians, they have increased, sometimes dramatically, for Hawaiians.Below 1 year of age, the Hawaiian death rate is more than double the overall official average.Between 1 and 4 years of age, it is triple the official figure, and so on into adulthood.Just under 20 percent of the population, we suffer 75 percent of the deaths for persons less than 18 years of age.
I had made a goal to lose weight this year. I found many clients walking and losing weight and I'LL BE DOING THE SAME! Our people must stop eating food that makes us fat and susceptible to diabetes, cancer, etc. cause we aint getting younger. I started my change on 1/25/10 and plan this till the end of the year. Weighing sixty pounds less will make me feel better and have more energy.
I'm doing this not only for healthy reasons, but a personal and spiritual goal to keep my "MANA" alive! I hope others take the challenge to eat and exercise rather than become a mortality statistic.
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I'm doing this not only for healthy reasons, but a personal and spiritual goal to keep my "MANA" alive! I hope others take the challenge to eat and exercise rather than become a mortality statistic.
namaka'eha