Are You Eating Healthy Food?

What do Nauru, Cook Islands, Tonga, Samoa, Palau, Marshall Islands, Kiribati, Kuwait, the United States of America, and Saint Kitts and Nevis have in common? We are among the TOP TEN for median body-mass index (BMI) in our population over the age of 20.

I've been trying to avoid thinking about this issue, personally, but my denial has been breached recently.

I heard a talk back in March by Murray Low, Ed. D., who directs the Cardiac Rehab program at the new Ambulatory Care Center of Northern Westchester Hospital (NWH), at Chappaqua Crossing. (I invited readers to ask me about it, but so far no one has.) He talked about (what else!) diet and exercise.

On Monday of this week, Cardiologist Dina R. Katz, M.D., F.A.C.C. spoke at Rotary Club of Chappaqua. She talked about (what else!) diet and exercise.

Yesterday the latest issue of Ministry Magazine (the journal sent free by the Seventh Day Adventists to virtually all clergy in the US) closes with a column on "The Pastor and Health" with the headline "Are You Eating Healthy Food?"

There's nothing in this that I don't already know. So, I'm resolving to DO SOMETHING! Some years ago, thanks to the Presbyterian Church (USA) Pensions and Benefits Plan's concern for clergy health, I acquired a fancy pedometer. I got it out, changed the battery, and resolved to "Take 10,000 Steps."

We'll see what a difference it makes!

--Jack Lohr, Interim Pastor

PS: Did you know that the Seventh Day Adventists invented Corn Flakes? (sort of)