Last night, I spent an hour or so with the faces of college football. Now, of course these faces are no longer "in" college. But! They're the ones we turn to week after week to get the scoop on our favorite teams, athletes, and upsets. ESPN College GameDay. is coevering the Orange and Blue game, which is the University of Florida Gator Spring Scrimmage. I know...it's just a scrimmage! But...it is a big deal. A very big deal to the fans, and one of the great symbols that fall football is almost back again. Since I spend a lot of time near the University of Florida, I paid them a visit for some Celebrity Fitzness Report interviews.

When I arrived, sports analyst Kirk Herbstreit and side-line reporter Erin Andrews were working out, running up and down the bleachers in the Swamp (the Gator Stadium). Maybe they knew a fitness trainer would be popping in to check on them, but probably not. They were just wisely using their short break time to squeeze in a great workout. I was kind of sad not to have been in workout clothes myself though. It would have been fun to interview them on the go! Maybe next time they're in town we'll do that.

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Staying healthy ... that's the goal. The ticker needs to keep ticking, and it's really up to no one but you to make sure that happens. Fortunately, there are a myriad of resources out there for you to tap; from websites like www.fitday.com and, of course, www.thatsfit.com to such books as Bill Phillips' Body for Life and Tosca Reno's The Eat Clean Diet. Diet, exercise, stress management -- there's info. out there about all of it. It's just up to you to look. Fortunately, doctors are really starting to take a more proactive approach to keeping their patients healthy, so you may not have to go at the whole getting healthy thing completely alone. In fact, two family physicians from the University of Michigan Health System have published a practical guide for primary care clinicians to use in helping their sedentary patients become more active.

As one of the authors stated, "Sitting still is making people sick. We know that a sedentary lifestyle contributes to chronic disease and conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, obesity, major depression, and some types of cancer." The amount of inactivity in the U.S., coupled with increasingly poor diets, has resulted in drastic spike in conditions that the author spoke of, as well as a score of others. This is why it is so very important that we implement some form of exercise into our daily lives. It doesn't have to be an hour at the gym or bunch of laps around a track. It could be something far more basic, yet still provide the health benefits needed to help stave off illness and overall physical deterioration.

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