Barbara Morris
Decline or Growth: It’s Your Choice
During the Depression of the 1930s, an Irving Berlin tune with the lyrics “Everybody’s doin’ it, doin’ it, doin’ it” was popular. I don’t know what everybody was doin,’ but it had a happy sound that made you feel better about tough times. Fast-forward to the present and the lyrics are still relevant: Everybody’s doin’ it, doin’ it, doin,’ it, and what are they doin'? They are retiring beginning with the oldest of today’s 76 million Boomers and that figure will swell to 69.4 million in 2030. When Social Security went into effect, no one could envision the many ways government-sponsored … Read more
Joyce L. Shafer
How Perfect Do You Believe You Have to Be?
Did anyone ever tell you, “If you’re not going to or can’t do it right, don’t do it at all”? That “advice” can be appropriate at times, but the rest of the time, it sets you up for self-sabotage and lack, actual or perceived. Obviously, there are times when you hope that’s the motto of a person, and you expect them to abide by it, such as someone performing surgery or a medical procedure, or a hairdresser who’s to cut, color, or perm your hair. You want them to get it right, no question about it. So, excluding any specific, significant actions when this statement should apply, we’re left to … Read more
Pat Garner
Why Is Blood Sugar Regulation Critical To Control?
For those in the USA, I hope you enjoyed your Thanksgiving. For the most part the traditional Thanksgiving meal is full of refined carbohydrates. Just about everything we consume in our holiday meal has added sugar. My Thanksgiving meal was no exception. We purchased a prepared meal from a local healthy grocer and while the words “natural”, “organic” were presented on the labels, the ingredients were still full of sugar and refined starches. In addition to the prepared meal, I made my own no sugar cranberry sauce and prepared other options like brussels sprouts with bacon and roasted sweet … Read more
Zenobia Silas-Carson
Suffering Is Inevitable — Misery Is Optional
Suffering is inevitable but misery is optional. I heard someone say that just today on a television program and I raced to find a pen, pencil, piece of charcoal or a stray dry erase marker to write it quick, before the words faded into the archives with other forgotten (and really cool) phrases. I thought, "Aha...I am familiar with both suffering and misery....I could write about that. In fact, I have experienced them more than once, simultaneously. So, the wise person throwing out such a juicy headline is a dream challenge to a writer. Well, at least to this writer. Immediately, I began … Read more
Good Stuff To Know – November 2018
Artificial sweeteners have toxic effects on gut microbes The collaborative study indicated relative toxicity of six artificial sweeteners (aspartame, sucralose, saccharine, neotame, advantame, and acesulfame potassium-k) and 10 sport supplements containing these artificial sweeteners. The bacteria found in the digestive system became toxic when exposed to concentrations of only one mg./ml. of the artificial sweeteners. Could less deadly therapies be a better way to keep cancer in check? While many cancer therapies initially can be very successful, tumors often return and spread when … Read more
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