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Sedentary lifestyles along with poor diet and habits have all contributed to an obesity epidemic in America.

OURMENTALHEALTH IS SUFFERING With all of the discussion and attention being paid to the unfavorable state of physical fitness, it seems that themental health of our population has been experiencing a relatively unnoticed decline as well. The National Institute of Mental Health has reported that as recently as 2017, a littlemore than seven percent of the U.S. population older than eighteen years of age has experienced at least onemajor depressive episode! This statistic only includes depression, leaving out

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