According to "Healthy You!," a study of over 7,000 consumers, 98% of consumers believe food can promote good health, 96% believe food can be used to manage a health condition, and 94% believe food can prevent disease.

Considering this information, what I find more interesting is the recent NAPSI article published in the USA papers. It reported... "With some 37 million elementary school kids heading off to class, activities shift into overdrive, mornings become hectic and a good breakfast is often sacrificed."

In fact, a Gallup Poll co-sponsored by the American Dietetic Association (ADA) found that an alarming 51% of the 400 children surveyed did not eat breakfast. According to the ADA, recent studies show that students who eat breakfast do better on some tasks of attention and memory and are more likely to have reduced nurse visits and attend school mor frequently. In addition, children who eat a healthy breakfast are more likely to meet their daily nutritional needs, keep their weight under control and have lower blood cholesterol levels.

When I first read the above article, the first thing I thought was how even when people KNOW without a doubt what is good for them, they tend to ignore it until it becomes a major problem ... or worse, a disability ...in their lives.

The same holds true for people preparing for retirement. People KNOW without a doubt that a small fixed income will mean hardships far into the future if they haven't planned an alternate source of funding, and yet they do little to prepare for retirement until it actually hits them.