Broccoli or Fries........is that a choice? :-)

SSSSSHHHHH!!!   DON'T TELL MRS. OBAMA!  But, did you see THIS INFORMATION?
A new study shows that junk food does NOT cause obesity in Middle Schools.
Nobody's for serving bad food to our kids, but most of us feel it's up to the parents, not the government, to tell our kids what to eat. 

Another aspect of the article says they're going to be offering more vegetables for school lunches. Here's my fear:  the kids'll be tipping their veggies from their cafeteria trays right into the garbage.   More tax dollars down the drain and the kids get none of the vitamins.  It's kind of like McDonalds, which "responded to the demands of REGULATORS" and "decided" to include apples instead of fries in children's Happy Meals...(though I'm not sure that makes them very HAPPY anymore?)......Ever hear a kid say "Mom, can we go to McDonalds ....their apples are SO GOOD!"

I'm for educating parents (as if most don't know broccoli's better for kids than french fries, anyway?) and letting them suggest to their children what's best to eat.    Get the government OUT of it.

You have any solutions to getting our kids to eat better?  Aren't mine better than the government's? How about veggie burgers that taste like real burgers in schools?   At least they get their taste buds happy and some veggies in them.  How about whole wheat pasta?  Don't change the menus, fix the recipes? 

z

Colonoscopy......and vodka and cake!?

HERE is a very well written article which shows how utterly preventable and/or treatable colon cancer is. I urge you to read the article or send it that person you love who's hard nosed about getting a colonoscopy....the paragraph below is worth the whole article, but I hope you read the link:


"Everyone who dies does so because the tumor wasn't detected in the first 25 years of its existence," explains Bert Vogelstein, M.D., a cancer researcher at Johns Hopkins University and one of the leading authorities in the genetic foundations of colorectal cancer. "There's a huge window of opportunity to beat this disease." 

(keep reading, I'm getting to the vodka in my headline!! :-)  Your first colonoscopy will show what you're facing.....they'll find a few polyps or not; depending on your age. From then on, YOU WILL KNOW WHAT YOU ARE NOT GOING TO DIE FROM. (read that again, it's true, and I made it up!)  The younger you are, the less chance of having any or the better chance of cutting them out in time(they do it right there during the procedure, no need for anything more) and having ZERO to worry about!  If there are a few polyps, you'll get another procedure in five years or whatever your gastroenterologist recommends.


The day before isn't fun......but, it can be easier than some of mine were:  Whatever your doctor tells you to take tell him no unless it's Magnesium Citrate.  Read my lips...TELL HIM "NO, NOT THE OTHER JUNK, GIVE ME MAGNESIUM CITRATE."  I've had two other protocols and you don't want them.   This magnesium citrate, refrigerated, doesn't taste bad at all and does the trick.  The day of the procedure is a piece of cake (and you'll be dying for a piece of cake by then, believe me)..you should be put out and then you wake up and ask "when are you doing it?"   And it's done.

I have a very dear friend who had advanced colon cancer when she was only about 46;  ignore the guidelines of having your first colonoscopy at fifty.  My dear buddy, if she'd been real lucky, would have probably had only two years  to live had they not done that test.  I love her, I had dinner with her last night, and we always celebrate her "how ever many years it's been" anniversary.  I distinctly remember celebrating her five year anniversary with Mr. Z.  Little did we know he'd go before she did.   Last night, we celebrated her 7th healthy year since the cancer.  Fabulous.

She'd probably be dead today had she not had symptoms......and, believe me, once you're having symptoms, you're lucky to live much longer than the colonoscopy and subsequent surgeries and radiation/chemo. 

Don't allow yourself to go through what my dear friend did......and don't allow yourself to die early from a perfectly preventable disease.  Please.

It was my friend's birthday last week.......my card's cover says "Some see birthdays as a glass that's half full....others see it as half empty..........."  Inside, it says "Me?  I see room for vodka. Happy Birthday"   She and I toasted her birthday and her health last night...........because of her colonoscopy.
z

Melanoma....and tanning: Send this to a teenager........please

I am too familiar with this disease and that's as much as I want to say.   Please just send this to every teenager you know.  It could save their life.  
Thanks!
z

Cialis.......rub-a-dub-dub...?

Do you ever wonder what's behind the CIALIS ad on television?  I've always wanted to ask you, or ask anybody!  I mean, there's this ad here in the image to the left, and there was another one which had a couple sitting in separate bathtubs on the edge of a lake....that couple on the lake were holding hands, unlike this one.  Maybe this couple had a tiff? :-)
I was thinking that maybe the guy wouldn't need Cialis if they left the separate bathtubs and went into the house?  Just a thought............ :-)  
What's the thinking, what's so sexy, about people sitting in separate porcelain basins..........?  And do YOU have a couple of bathtubs on the edge of YOUR lake?  Do you HAVE a lake? !  Can you imagine who sold this idea to the Cialis bigwigs?   Seriously!?

z

This could save a LIFE...

HERE is a VERY important article on CPR which includes the fact that experts are no longer recommending the old "breathe in the mouth and then push on the the chest" procedure.
I am extremely private about details concerning my Mr. Z's passing last October 10th, but suffice it to say I thought he was alive for good reason and 911 talked me through the chest pumping..."no mouth anymore". He didn't make it but someone you love could....or even a stranger.
How many more of us might try to save a stranger in a dire situation if we knew 'just' pushing on his or her chest will suffice, that you do not have to breathe for that person?
Please read the article...............if it saves one life, it's worth the blog space.

this is dedicated to my Mr. Z. But then, everything is.
z

The Appendix: God didn't goof after all!?

I found THIS INFORMATION fascinating. But, then, I still do have my appendix.
Why would God have made a body with a "worthless evolutionary artifact," anyway? :-) (more apologetics...I love this stuff)
GeeeeeeZ

MoveOn.... I guess the term "Tea Party" is too patriotic for them!?

....plus, they probably don't know their history enough to understand the term TEA PARTY. This is an email that just got sent around:

Dear MoveOn member,

We knew the Republicans were going to be a problem when President Obama called on Congress to invest in a clean-energy economy and universal health care.

But now, according to a Capitol Hill newspaper, some conservative Democratic senators are "quietly maneuvering to keep open the option of vetoing two of President Barack Obama's most ambitious agenda items this year—climate change and health care reform."¹

This is the nightmare scenario: a few conservative Democrats teaming up with Republicans to stop the progressive pieces of the President's agenda. So we're launching a major campaign to make sure Democratic senators hear loud and clear from their constituents that we need them to back Obama's proposals.

The campaign is volunteer-driven, but it takes money to make training videos, develop hard-hitting ads, and pay the community organizers who recruit and manage the volunteers. Can you contribute $15 per month to help save clean energy and health care reform? Click here: (Z: links removed to protect this country)

It's easy to contribute monthly and you can cancel at any time.

You see, what's happening here is that these conservative Democrats are facing enormous pressure from Republicans and corporate lobbyists in Washington, but they're not hearing enough from progressives back home in their districts or states. So we're building the infrastructure to inject a massive jolt of people power into the conversation.

It starts this weekend, with a wave of nearly 200 community meetings organized by local volunteers, and it builds from there until we're mobilizing hundreds of thousands of MoveOn members to pressure their senators and representatives in their home states and districts.

Z: Thought you'd enjoy what's happening. The good thing is there are so many more Tea Parties by conservatives and others hoping to stem the tide of SO much spending. And, maybe those moderate Democrats understand how extremely costly and probably what bad ideas universal health care and Obama's idea of a 'clean -energy economy' really are. Don't you love the part about DEMOCRATS facing "enormous pressure"? Ya, the Left has 100% of the television networks, most of the newspapers and most of cable TV (though FOX is way ahead in the ratings, of course), most of the film and TV inferences in their themes.....but THE DEMS are facing ENORMOUS pressure! Good, it's about time. Get used to it, folks...you ain't seen NOTHIN' yet.

z

Euthanasia

Some of you participated in my post questioning the bill Obama's going to reverse which says a doctor is any longer protected by the law if he does not want to perform abortions.

I saw this story on euthanasia today and wondered how soon doctors across America will have to kill the sick because they requested help dying. Washington State is going to allow "DIGNITY DEATHS."

Do you see the LANGUAGE? "DIGNITY DEATHS" Does that mean a person in terrible pain who feels, for whatever reason, that doing themselves in is not an option is not dying a "dignified death"?

It's sort of like a woman's "right to her own body" is the euphemism for "a woman killing her unborn child", isn't it. Sure SOUNDS great that a woman has a 'right to her own body', doesn't it? Sure it does. Very beguiling. But, with this euthanasia thing, why not call it the EUTHANASIA BILL? Scared to because it's too obvious and people might react badly to it?

And, imagine a doctor being told he MUST give someone a death cocktail? Imagine how dispirited a doctor might feel? Will we lose good men in the medical profession if more of America adopts this law?

Whatever you feel on the issue of Euthanasia (which I swear I thought was the Peace Corps in China until I actually saw it spelled!), the 'dignity deaths' phrase is such a typical liberal ploy.... WHO CAN ARGUE WITH THAT, right? Doesn't EVERYONE want DIGNITY?!!

Do you feel EUTHANASIA is a Left/Right issue, by the way? I'm truly curious.

z

Longevity

The World's Oldest Person has died....at 115 years of age.

If you were to say the one thing you think helps us keep healthy enough to live a nice long life, what would it be?

z