| Getting and staying in shape is important for you - | | | | and physical future. Consider the following: |
| but yourworkouts may be more important for your | | | | We are products of our environment. We gravitate |
| family. The reason: your family is inexorably drawn to | | | | toward what we are repeatedly exposed to. It's a |
| follow your fitness example - for good or bad. How | | | | simple matter of repetition. The more we see, hear, |
| you manage your personal fitness and nutrition has a | | | | use, or eat something the more it becomes ingrained |
| ripple effect that spreads across your entire family. | | | | in our psyche. In fact, social scientists believe |
| Your "personal ripple effect" may be one of the | | | | environmental repetition may have an effect on gene |
| most powerful forces shaping your family's mental | | | | expression and can literally change your biochemistry. |