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During your visit I will share something of myself and acquaint you with some of my beliefs and how these beliefs are incorporated in my teachings and services. As a nation, we are aging and, along with this, experiencing the onset of various illnesses typically associated with old age. Additionally, our children are suffering from an epidemic of obesity.
These two disturbing trends are frequently “explained away” by dismissing the first as result of demographics and extended lifespans and the second as a product of prosperity. This is wrong headed thinking at its worst and overlooks the core issue. To put the aging issue in perspective, it is important to note that In Okinawa, the occurrence of heart disease is only one fifth that of American levels.
The rate of breast, ovarian, and prostate cancers is less than a quarter of American levels. And the number of centenarians per hundred thousand is six times that of the United States. Most important, Okinawans have the world’s longest disability-free life expectancy. Although obesity in children once was rare, it is now one of the most widespread medical problems in the United States and other developed countries. About 15% of adolescents (aged 12-19 years) and children (aged 6-11 years) are obese in the United States according to the American Obesity Association. The numbers are expected to continue increasing.
