I wish I could be part of the program because you're all doing such a marvelous job! I am proud to see the enthusiasm in your writings and I get thrilled when I read about your succes
I wish I could contribute, but my english does not do me any justice in these matters, I simply can't explain myself. I have been looking to see if I could find the research I was talking about, but only found a review from the published article from the professor who researches in exercise:
"The objectively measured level of fitness and self-reported physical activity both have a prognostic relationship with death from all causes, independently of BMI."
It doesn't mean that you shouldn't eat healthy, on the contrary, exercise just gets a completely new perspective on this.
So you see, the healthy living is indeed important on more than one level
And that's not even half of it, since other findings are that depression can be treated with exercise as well!
But I have written her and asked if she has the articles in english and if she does I will post them (depending on how long they are).
If you are curious her name is Bente Klarlund Pedersen and she is the leader of the national public health council (again, what is the name of cuch a council in english? I have no idea!) You can try a search on the net yourself if you wish and maybe you'll get lucky and find more info than I did...
I hope this can be viewed as a small contribution to this great initiative - keep it up