My Dear Friend,

Are you as healthy as you've led yourself to believe?

Surprisingly, if you're anything like me, you really don't know.

Why not?

Well, it's likely because we get so caught up in trying to build the perfect body, we forget to measure our health.

"So in truth, in the process of building a better body, we regrettably may forget all about our health." In other words, we're so busy training harder and harder to achieve the coveted six-pack set of abs, and we're working even harder running on a treadmill every morning to peel off those layers of stubborn fat from our bellies... So in truth, in the process of building a better body, we regrettably may forget all about our health.

Interestingly, many people believe that health is a byproduct of living a life full of physical fitness. That health is attained in the pursuit of building a better body.

So I thought too.

You may remember (from a previous, "Truth Matters" Editor's Letter of mine, where I revealed one of my life's biggest "Ah-ha moments")... I confessed to using anabolic steroids. I'm not proud of it. But, I want to be honest because in all good friendships, you need to show your warts if you want to strengthen the relationship.

Anyway, at the time, while to any ordinary passerby I must have appeared