The “Marathon of Health” is a 12,000-mile journey the family is undertaking to show the world that small steps can make a big difference in our lives.

“All of us run every day, all of us, right now, we’re running about 100 miles a day,” said dad Ed Chicoine. “I’ll run about 15-20 miles each day. Sometimes we only go about 60 miles, it depends on if we have something else going on with the media or high school presentations. We love to give presentations. The kids are engaged, they ask questions, and they’re the future and they all get it. Whether they act on it is another thing. We’re just hoping to get more people in general to take part in what we’re doing.”

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Ed says the family has had its share of small injuries and son Jake once had to take off two weeks but they were all healthy when they started, and they have stayed that way by taking care of each other (Ed is a chiropractor who keeps everyone aligned) and eating real food.

“We have eaten out only three times, and other times we do all our own cooking. … For dinner, we always have a salad, with lots of vegetables – carrots, onions, tomatoes, celery, red peppers, green peppers we make it as colorful as possible. And 90 percent of time, we’ll have either chicken, fish, beef or quinoa, lentils or beans, with a rice or a pasta,” Ed said. “We also cook in organic coconut oil and olive oil only. We also eat a lot of coconuts and coconut milk, which has saturated fat for your muscles for energy. In the morning, we use a lot of flax seed, hemp seed and chia seed, sprinkled on cereal for Omega 3s and protein. … We make our own drinks with chia seed in water with a little bit of lemon. We don’t do any power bars or power drinks, and we find that’s helped us tremendously.”
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