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    Tavon Mason's The 60-A-Day Promise: A Guide to a Healthier Lifestyle&Family
    Tavon Mason's The 60-A-Day Promise: A Guide to a Healthier Lifestyle&Family
    Tavon Mason's The 60-A-Day Promise: A Guide to a Healthier Lifestyle&Family
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    Tavon Mason's The 60-A-Day Promise: A Guide to a Healthier Lifestyle&Family

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    Former New York Jets Wide Receiver Tavon Mason presents The 60-A-Day Promise: A Guide to a Healthier Lifestyle & Family is a guide to help parents get on track with their health and fitness. It helps get over the mental blocks that is incorporated with wanting to eat healthy, live health and also to have a healthy family. Tavon Mason uses his own family issues to outline how making a change in his eating could impact the road for his kids and family. Tavon has outlined different activities and foods that parents can implement in their routines and ways to get their kids motivated to be active.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateJun 28, 2013
    ISBN9781483502618
    Tavon Mason's The 60-A-Day Promise: A Guide to a Healthier Lifestyle&Family

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      Tavon Mason's The 60-A-Day Promise - Tavon Mason

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      Introduction

      Believe it or not, one hour a day can improve your child’s life and your life as well. How you ask? Simple! My book and its details combined with my experiences with health, and being active will explain how an hour a day can benefit you and your kids. My pursuit and desire for a healthier lifestyle for myself, my kids, and the generations after them, stems from a family history of heart disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and bottles and bottles of medication to combat these illnesses.

      I can still remember as a young kid the smell of greasy bacon, sausage and eggs for breakfast and the smell of steak, meatloaf and other beef related meals looming through my household and my relative’s homes. When you’re young, you see your family and friends do certain things, but you don’t worry about the consequences of those things because that’s what you know and what you were raised on. My dad’s mom, my grandmother passed away at the age of 58 from a heart-attack. Of course, me being young I didn’t even know what a heart attack was. This began a pattern on my dad’s side of the family, during my early years of high school. My aunt passed at the age of 58 from a heart-attack as well. I later found out these deaths were a result of unhealthy eating habits and lifestyle.

      My Family roots originate from southern Maryland in St. Mary’s county /Charles County. My mom’s side of the family suffered from the same ailments that hit my dad’s side, I call it southern cooking and southern virtues, which included the same high blood pressure, high cholesterol, medication for their diseases. The end result would be my family would continue to eat the way they ate with disregard to the possible consequences. My family’s best friend was SALT or MSG (a more concentrated salt to increase flavor). This pattern of unhealthy eating and disregard for early warning signs continued through the younger generation with the increasing fast food era, McDonalds, Burger King, Chinese food or carry outs, sub shops and Baltimore’s infamous chicken boxes. I ate at those different locations because that’s what I knew from childhood and it was the easiest way to eat without worrying about building a shopping list. I didn’t know that I was setting myself up for the family curse if I continued with my eating style which I carried over through high school, college and in the NFL.

      As a high school athlete, you feel young vibrant and full of energy, so when my coaches would say don’t eat certain foods or drink certain drinks before games and practice I wouldn’t listen because I knew I could burn it off. Even when I got to college and received a full scholarship to the University of Virginia to play football, I still didn’t take heed to changing my eating habits. Even after my dad’s heartattack during my third year at UVA I still didn’t consider changing any of my lifestyle choices to break the pattern of health issues in my family. I carried on with eating my junk food and candy and every so often drinking sodas and etc. My dad’s heart-attack worried me a lot, not because our family history or eating unhealthy but because he was my dad. I was still blind to our family history of heart disease and high blood pressure and didn’t think his heart attack was the result of unhealthy eating or stress.

      I carried my non chalant attitude about combining eating healthy with my already active life to the NFL. I had prominent figures such as Richie Anderson and Curtis Martin on my team (NY Jets) that broke down why we should stop eating pork and most meat and switch to more vegetables and fruits to maximize our abilities while playing football. Even after hearing these great athletes in the game preach to me about eating healthy I just brushed it off and kept doing what I knew best eating how I wanted and telling myself I will burn it off during practices/workouts and that I was an athlete. I continued my way of eating after playing for the jets and after playing arena football for the Baltimore mariners. I continued to train because as athlete you become programmed to do that but along with me training I continued to eat poorly because my mind told me

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