the environment is a crucial factor in the health of each of us. if the environment is not healthy, there is no way we can truly call ourselves healthy. persistent efforts and regulation over the last few decades have greatly reduced environmental pollution. ib: our rivers don t catch on fire anymore. persistent efforts and regulation over the last few decades we don t have big, black plumes in most communities in america. we don t see slicks going down the great lakes. so people believe, because they don t see it, that, somehow, we re in a better state now than we ever were before, and the truth is, that all we ve done is cosmetic surgery. we have scraped off the surface and made that look pretty, but beneath it are the invisible chemicals that are getting into our food supply, our water supply and our air each and every day, and poisoning us. not gross poisoning, but subtle poisoning, day after day after day. we are not exposed to individual toxicants in the environment. we
narrator: pregnancy is usually a 38-week procs. healthwise, there s much a woman needs to do and learn during that nine months. barbara korsch: i think that, you know, usually people don t make a conscious effort to prepare for that. they are in the state of mind, and let s hope they have someone who s going to father the child whom they respect and whose values they like. i like to say that a pregnancy begins when two people who are in love with each other decide that they re going to become pregnant and raise a child till that child is 20 to 30 years of age, not before. j.p. garamone: we ve been married 13 years. we pretty much put the decision off till later on. we really thought that we would, you know, travel and do a lot of things together, etc., etc., and then when the time was right, we d figure, you know, we d talk about it then. and then one day, it was like, is this going to be a nursery or is this going to be a guest room? tracey garamone: and i went for my annual
who are either overweight or obese. i think we have a very serious public health problem on our hands that we need to address as a nation. despite the fact that americans are more and more conscious about their weight, despite the fact that we have more and more so-called low fat foods and sugar substitutes, obesity is increasing constantly in the united states. i think it s fair to say we have an epidemic of obesity in the united states. today there are more than 100 million americans who are either overweight or obese. this is a disease and a condition which causes a whole host of important medical complications, so i think we have a very serious public health problem on our hands that we need to address as a nation. narrator: poor food choices, combined with increasingly sedentary lifestyles, are blamed for the dramatic increase in obesity over the last several decades. close to 35% of women and 31% of men over the age of 20 are now considered obese. ralph cygan: obesity i
the environment is a crucial factor in the health of each of us. if the environment is not healthy, there is no way we can truly call ourselves healthy. persistent efforts and regulation over the last few decades have greatly reduced environmental pollution. ib: our rivers don t catch on fire anymore. persistent efforts and regulation over the last few decades we don t have big, black plumes in most communities in america. we don t see slicks going down the great lakes. so people believe, because they don t see it, that, somehow, we re in a better state now than we ever were before, and the truth is, that all we ve done is cosmetic surgery. we have scraped off the surface and made that look pretty, but beneath it are the invisible chemicals that are getting into our food supply, our water supply and our air each and every day, and poisoning us. not gross poisoning, but subtle poisoning, day after day after day. we are not exposed to individual toxicants in the environment. we
narrator: pregnancy is usually a 38-week procs. healthwise, there s much a woman needs to do and learn during that nine months. barbara korsch: i think that, you know, usually people don t make a conscious effort to prepare for that. they are in the state of mind, and let s hope they have someone who s going to father the child whom they respect and whose values they like. i like to say that a pregnancy begins when two people who are in love with each other decide that they re going to become pregnant and raise a child till that child is 20 to 30 years of age, not before. j.p. garamone: we ve been married 13 years. we pretty much put the decision off till later on. we really thought that we would, you know, travel and do a lot of things together, etc., etc., and then when the time was right, we d figure, you know, we d talk about it then. and then one day, it was like, is this going to be a nursery or is this going to be a guest room? tracey garamone: and i went for my annual