Physical Fitness
When my uncle was president in 1960, go back and look at his speeches and his thoughts back then.
About a subject which I believe to be most important and that is the subject of physical fitness.
And he was extraordinarily distressed at that point and if he could look at Americans today
he would be in shock because we are so sick. When he was in office obesity was at 13 percent,
today it's at 45 percent, 75 percent of Americans are overweight. When he was in office six percent
of Americans had chronic disease. By 2006 it was at 54 percent. This is one of the reasons,
the key reasons that I ran for president to end this chronic disease epidemic and to restore
Americans to good health. This should be a matter of concern to us all. A country is as strong really
as its citizens and I think that mental and physical health go hand in hand.