Long Term Weight Loss (Biggest Loser Study)

[WillBrink]

I am in North Carolina, a right to work state. In my particular AO, unions are not a big thing. When I started in the EMS as a volunteer, 1990ish, (obesity and unfit) was far worse. When I was paid/full-time, at first the county did not care. But then after a study re: missed days due to injury, injury due to obesity, etc., the county became much more focused, but placed the onus on us. Slowly over the years there has been a shift to generally more fit and nutrition-savvy medics. But I would concur that of the three, EMS has, proportionately, a larger share of obese and unfit medics than fire or law enforcement.

I have a buddy that is huge in the Fit Responder program, and he carries the torch locally, travels and teaches with EMS systems and fire departments within a 100 miles or so. So, it is getting traction.

http://www.fitresponder.com/

BTW, I own the URL FirstResponderFitness.com, as well as TacticalNutrition, etc and have for years. I have done nothing with it to date being too busy with other projects. Someone does have a site with that name, and contacted me to buy it, and I declined. Potential there is huge as an assist for first responders of all kinds, but I can't do that chit alone.

[chuckman]

BTW, I own the URL FirstResponderFitness.com, as well as TacticalNutrition, etc and have for years. I have done nothing with it to date being too busy with other projects. Someone does have a site with that name, and contacted me to buy it, and I declined. Potential there is huge as an assist for first responders of all kinds, but I can't do that chit alone.

Dude, I'd love to get into some of that. What an untapped population.

[WillBrink]

Dude, I'd love to get into some of that. What an untapped population.

Yup, and many are focusing on that area now, but I had that idea at least a decade ago. I have a ton of good ideas. I'm an idea guy, but not always a business development guy, so have usually teamed up with companies or people with those skill sets.