Fitness and Wellness

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Hi, I'm Don Dawson. How are you feeling today? In this program, we're going to show you how you can feel better and be healthier everyday. (background music) (upbeat rock music) How would you like to give yourself more energy? Boost your immunity to disease? Lose weight, reduce stress, and feel better about yourself? Sounds too good to be true, doesn't it? But all these are possible and more. We're talking about what happens when you build wellness and fitness into your life. And that's something all of us can do. Think about how you live. Do you take good care of yourself? Do you eat right and exercise? Positive steps like these can lead directly to fitness and wellness. But there are steps backward to watch out for too. The bad things that can adversely affect our health, like smoking or allowing stress to build up in our lives. These are called negative lifestyle factors. They're potholes in the road to wellness. Hitting these potholes, falling into bad habits, increases our personal health risks. One negative factor such as smoking is bad enough. But when you add a second risky behavior, such as a bad diet, your problems can multiply. To get a true picture of our wellness level, each of us needs to tally up our own personal health risks, then work to eliminate them. But remember, that battling any problems that you identify will often be a gradual process. Don't expect to shake all your bad habits, or to build up all the good ones over night. Instead, work to reduce risk factors and improve your behaviors a little at a time. Once you get started, you'll begin to feel better and you'll decrease your chances of serious health problems. Let's take at a closer look at how to do it.