Why Does the Million Dollar Body Challenge™ Work?

Almost 400 years ago, John Dryden spoke these words…

“We first form our habits, then our habits form us.”

About 250 years ago, Ben Franklin said…

“It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.”

Recently, Jimmy Carter was quoted as saying…

"The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny."

We all know that if good health habits can be established early on in life, bad habits do not get a foothold, and then can’t lead to compromised health later in life.

The challenge, of course, is getting children interested in establishing habits that they do not PERCEIVE as being necessary right now, or even particularly interesting.

Want to immediately bore a child?

Talk about cholesterol.  Tell them about growing rates of heart disease and diabetes. Discuss the importance of avoiding trans fats and getting enough anti-oxidants in their “diet”.

Want to take on a lost cause?

 Try to get them to agree that TV is “bad” and should be limited.  Try to convince them that sugar is “gross”, or that peas and asparagus are the nectars of the gods.

You didn’t buy it when your parents tried it, why should they?

Children are only interested in the moment.  It’s not their fault, their brains haven’t fully developed to allow them to look too far in the past or too far into the future.

Pursuing a plan that requires them to fear a future of ill-health and take positive action today to prevent it is a waste of time.  Unless, of course, you want to ensure that your child grows up to be a neurotic adult, afraid of most foods.

If you want them to look into the future, you better paint a bright and exciting picture.  And, if you want them to take actions today to get to that “promised land”, you better make it fun and interesting TODAY.

Think Christmas and summer vacation.  Not mortgages and taxes.  Be honest… how excited do YOU get about making healthy choices?  And, you are a lot closer to mortality than your child is.

The Million Dollar Body Challenge™ program works because it incorporates all that we know about what habits are necessary to ensure a lifetime of health, and all that we know about how the brain’s role in developing habits.

And, it is FUN and INTERESTING to a child.

If this is enough information for you, stop reading and find out about materials and costs or fundraising.

But, if you'd like to learn more about the brain's role in forming habits and how this works in the Million Dollar Body Challenge™ ...keep reading.