Here is a poll from Congressman Moore. If you are in Kansas and do not get his newsletter then let your voice be heard by taking this health care survey. Hopefully, my Kansas “family” can influence the health care reform!
Exercise Tips to fight Hypertension! (High Blood Pressure)
I have begun a quest to get my family more involved with healthy eating. I have to admit, with the way the world is set up, this is going to be harder than I ever thought it would be. My daughter is young, and she really doesn’t know enough yet to complain, but my husband is going to be another issue all together. He is the one that is going to make this tough, but his resistance thus far as not been too strong. I’m sure he’ll let me know when I have stepped over the line.
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It might be my age, I don’t know, but I am now more worried about what I put in my body. It might be that I have a child now, and I don’t want her to grow up with bad ideas about food like I did. Whatever the case, I have tried my best to incorporate good health food into some of the things that we eat most often. It is actually harder than I thought to find what I consider to be healthy, and I wonder if many are mistaken because things are often misleading.
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Reading a health news article or two a day can really do a lot to make sure that you keep current on the latest health trends. Even if you have a good general practitioner, there is no guarantee that he will now all of the health news. Sometimes, it is months or even years before a health article becomes popular enough for most people to notice it. Only the people who read health newsletters, health bloggers, and health pioneers seem to keep up with everything that is happening.
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The Buddhist Proverb said: “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.” This proves time and time again to be true. Here is an example in this interesting article on health:
I used to think that reading articles on health was pointless at best and probably pretty counter-productive. You see, every day there was new health news on tv, and yet I never seemed to do anything. When I would see an article on health telling me, for example, that the food I was eating was bad for my heart or that more exercise would increase my longevity, it would make me feel more depressed about the way that I was living. I would not do anything to change it. Getting in shape seemed like such an impossible task, and it was so much easier to give in to apathy.
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One of the best ways to get a good workout when you think you don’t have time to go to the gym is to get a workout DVD you can do in your home. You may think that you don’t want to go to the gym because you feel too large, or perhaps it takes you too long to get there and back. If this is something you are thinking, make sure that is a real issue and not just a cop out. If you really want the workout but can’t get to the gym, a great workout DVD is just what you need.
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This article give us something to think about and act upon as we endeavor to fight the war against adult and childhood obesity.
When Gandhi said “we must be the change we wish to see in the world,” he might not have realized how many people would be inspired by his brave words. If anyone had the right to make such a statement, it was Gandhi. He was so bent on making his country free of British rule that he was willing to undergo torture, threats, and poverty just to bring changes to the world. Although his words have been somewhat diluted by their popularity, they still strike people today. Even the cheesy be the change bumperstickers might, now and then, make people stop and think.
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Key points are in bold and my comments are in parentheses.
There is a popular saying that if you have your health you have everything. (It maybe clearer to say: If you don’t have your health, the biggest majority of things in life no longer matter.) I never paid a great deal of attention to this. I thought it was something that people that did not have the better things in life said to themselves to feel better. I had the luxury of thinking this because I had always been very healthy.(The problem about health is that it deteriorates in stealth mode.) I took this for granted and kept pushing myself harder and harder to achieve financial wealth. By the time I was forty years old I had a very nice bank account however I hardly knew my kids and my wife was ready to divorce me.
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NOTE: Important points in bold. My comments are in parentheses.
Children have a different lifestyle in this day and age. Basically they like to do so many more things indoors than ever before. This is the downside of LCD televisions, laptop computers, Ipods, high-tech video games and other modern toys. While TVs and video games were certainly around when I was a child in the 80s, my father forced us out the door to play outside. This was a good thing in retrospect. And to be completely honest, we loved it! This is probably the best source of exercise for children. Simply allow them to run around and frolic with their peers outdoors. (This burns an extreme amount of calories when children are playing some type of sport outside.)
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