Ten minutes a day. That is all it would take to change the American education system and save the country billions of dollars a year, according to fitness guru Robert Sweetgall.
“If teachers would just have their students walk 10 minutes a day before class, it would change so many things. The simplest thing we could do in this country is to add a little more physical activity,” Sweetgall told a group at Southern Adventist University in Collegedale.
The 65-year-old knows a thing or two about physical activity.
Thirty-one years ago, he was an overweight chemical engineer at Dupont and a junk food fanatic. His nickname was “Butterball” when he was growing up in Brooklyn.
But then Sweetgall watched his father and uncle die from heart disease.