When poor health leads to greater problems

Sometimes poor health - being overweight, or not eating right, for example, can lead to further problems such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and eventually even kidney disease and failure. Resulting in the need for a kidney transplant. Surprising? It happens a lot.

Now, I realize not everyone's health problems are a result of their own doing. Some are born with it (like me).

However, some diseases can be stopped, and here is just one story of one man doing just that:

Martinsville man with kidney disease in remission after running »