As the obesity epidemic and overall sedentary lifestyle continue to cripple the American workforce drastically increasing health care costs consider the inspirational words of Diana Nyad. The record-holding swimmer, who accomplished a near-impossible swim from Cuba to Key West, Fla., centers on one key message to help jump start the population: Never, ever give up.
I couldnt have done it a fingernail faster, Nyad told the audience of benefit managers and brokers at this years Benefits Forum & Expo in Boca Raton, Fla, citing the words she has strived to live her life by without regret both as a teenager in her swim trials for the Olympic Games and later in life when she transitioned into a marathon swimmer.
