Medical matters?

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I was paddling in the shallow end of the great interweb and I fell over this. Comments please........

Compared to other countries, the U.S. population ranks

48th in life expectancy according to the CIA World Fact

Book, 2005)

Actually, for all we spend on healthcare and for all the

"safety" features on all the toys, cars, electronics, etc.

our manufacturers are forced to implement that other

countries don't require, it's even worse than it sounds, eh?

Wow. More than twice the diabetes, 30% more high blood

pressure, nearly double the cancer.

And this is just for whites... at every single economic

level.

For minorities, it's even worse!!

Ah, here's a small clue...

....More Americans are obese, says the study.

Here's a great quote from a co-author of the study...

"Everybody should be discussing it: Why isn't the richest

country in the world the healthiest country in the world?"

Oooh! Ooooh! I know!

More fast food, more marketing of fast food, boxed food

and canned food.

Look. In order to be alive, you must eat live foods.

Yes, lots of vegetables and fruits in their natural states

and less meats and processed foods.

Cancer? Eat live foods.

Diabetes, high blood pressure, intestinal problems, immune

problems, inflammation, no energy, allergies, arthritis,

heart "disease"?

Eat live foods.

If it can not rot...

If it will stay "good" for months in your cupboards until

you get around to finishing it, you should not really eat

it. And at least you shouldn't eat large amounts of it.

Richer doesn't mean smarter. We're puppets.

"I'm loving it!" How about those two chins? Loving those?

The bypass? The Prilosec? The doctor bills?

"Your deserve a break today!" But do you deserve a

fractured hip? The laughter? The marriage with no (or no

good) sekks?

When someone who is overweight gets upset at the

suggestion to change their diet, you know what many (2 of 3

Americans are overweight and 1 in 4 is OBESE) say?

"Hey, life's short, I'm going to enjoy myself."

It's pretty sad when chewing and swallowing is your

greatest joy.

Last I checked, food is actually on your tongue for only a

few minutes a day, but fat shakes around with you, making

you feel rotten 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Are those couple minutes of pleasure worth the 24 hours of

self-loathing?

Say no.

Why not get your biggest joys from accomplishment, helping

others, sports, learning, teaching, exercising... and being

a head-turner?

Oh, I know food can give that oh-so-coveted instant

pleasure. It can. But when did getting instant pleasure

EVER give you anything lasting... that you were proud of?

Life isn't short. It's long...

....long enough to give you loads of pain for bad decisions.

....long enough to delay some gratifications for later.

The lasting, truly enjoyable kind.

Cool. I like your phrase, "...letting go of that which

does not serve me or where I see myself going." If every

person could gain the presence of mind to know what doesn't

support where they'd like to go, there would be a lot less

suffering in the world. Thanks, Jennifer. Keep it up.

The truth is, all foods are drugs.

I should rephrase that. The chemicals found in ALL foods

are drugs. Many foods (mostly, food in it's natural state)

have good chemicals in them and many (all processed foods)

have bad chemicals. And just like pure drugs, food can

make us feel physically and emotionally good or bad.

The only question is, what chemicals are you putting in

your body every day and in what quantities.

Looking at it this way, obese people are actually drug

addicts.

Stop being an addict.

Get healthy.

Live longer.

Make your life mean more than shoveling in massive

quantities of food that your body doesn't need so that you

have the health and energy to achieve many good and great

things.

Don't make it your destiny to be fat because you were

addicted to what the legal drug pushers (processed food

manufacturers and fast food joints) told you that you

"deserved."

You have too much potential for that to be your destiny.