Contributed by an anonymous Australian
Mum used to cut chicken, slice eggs and spread mayo on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't get food poisoning.
My Mum used to defrost mince-meat on the kitchen sink AND I used to eat some raw sometimes, too.
Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper, in a brown paper bag, not in icepack coolers, but I can't remember anybody getting e. coli.
Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the creek instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then.
The term mobile phone would have conjured up a moving phone, and a pager was the school loudhailer or PA system.
We all played sport, and also did PE... and risked permanent injury with a pair of sandshoes (only worn in the gym or the sports ground) instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built-in light reflectors.
I can't recall any injuries but they must have happened, because they tell us how much safer we are now.....
Flunking sport was not an option.... even for stupid kids!
There were not many fat kids.
Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the National Anthem and got free school milk for strong bones and teeth, and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention. We must have had horribly damaged psyches.
What an archaic health system we had then. Remember school nurses?
Ours wore a hat and everything, and she could even give you an aspirin for a headache or fever.
I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of myself.
I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations.
Oh yeah.. and where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when I got that bee sting?
I could have been killed!
We played 'king of the castle' on piles of gravel left on vacant construction sites, and when we got hurt, Mum pulled out the 48-cent bottle of Mercurochrome (kids liked it better because it didn't sting like iodine did) and then we got our hair ruffled and got told to get back out there!
Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $49 bottle of antibiotics, and then Mum calls the Solicitor to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat.
We didn't misbehave at our mate's house either, because if we did, we got our bum smacked there, and then we got our bum belted again when we got home.
I recall Donny Reynolds from next door coming over and doing his tricks on the front verandah, just before he fell off. Little did his Mum know that she could have owned our house. Instead, she picked him up and swatted him for being such a yobbo. It was a neighbourhood run amuck.
We climbed trees, rolled down grassy slopes, made dams in the gutter, jumped into privit hedges...
To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a 'dysfunctional family'.
How could we possibly have known that we needed to get into group therapy and anger management classes?
We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn't even notice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac!
How did we ever survive?
LOVE TO ALL OF US WHO SHARED THIS ERA, AND TO ALL WHO DIDN'T---- SORRY FOR WHAT YOU MISSED.
I WOULDN'T TRADE IT FOR ANYTHING!
If You Are Over 40...
Scumbags promote THIS as healthy?
contributed by Mike Geary
If you haven't seen it already on TV or online, the American Corn Refiners Association has started a massive marketing campaign to try to revamp the poor public image of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS).
In my opionion, this is PURE SLEEZE! These guys are scumbags!
We all know by now that HFCS is one of the worst things in our food supply. I lump it in with trans fats as one of the biggest dangers and causes of health problems and obesity in our food supply.
Basically, with this new MASSIVE advertising campaign (I'm seeing the ads everywhere lately online and on TV), they are trying to give the impression that HFCS is somehow "healthy".
Yeah, and while society and our kids get fatter and more unhealthy, they're lining their pockets with massive profits since HFCS is in the majority of processed food.
It's one thing to sell unhealthy products... I mean, everybody has the right to buy or sell something unhealthy if they really want to. However, these guys are taking it to a new level (an immoral one) at trying to give the impression that HFCS is healthy.
They don't come right out and say that it's healthy, but they do say these misleading statements:
- "it's all natural"
- "it's made from corn"
- "it's no worse than table sugar"
- "contains the same calories as table sugar"
Once again... scumbags!
In one of the commercials, they show someone eating a Popsicle (ice block on a stick), and the actress basically defends it saying that "it's all natural" and it's "made from corn". The other commercial I saw shows them offering someone a sweetened soft drink (since most soft drinks are sweetened with HFCS) and basically tries to give the same type of impression that it's not so bad for you after all.
Are you kidding me?
First of all, HFCS is worse than sugar. However, I won't even get into the scientific discussion of how this affects the insulin and leptin process in your body, blood sugar, the hunger trigger, etc...
Instead, I'll make a more important point:
WHO CARES if it's "no worse for you than table sugar"... because table sugar is one of the worst things you can put in your body anyway, so it's not even a valid argument!
The bottom line is that if you want to maintain a lean healthy body for life, you should be minimizing, or even eliminating, all table sugar and HFCS... as well as eliminating most processed food in general.
And don't even get me started on their claim that HFCS is "all-natural". Maybe according to some idiotic definition of "natural", you can claim that it's natural... but all we need to know is that it's a highly processed, refined substance that MAKES YOU FAT!
That's all we need to know. I don't care if you call it natural or artificial.
Think about all of this the next time you're offered a can of soda, a Popsicle, ice cream, cereals, candy, cakes, etc... they are almost always loaded with HFCS and go directly against your efforts to get lean and stay healthy.
About the Author:
Mike Geary is the owner of a fitness gym and the author of Truth About Abs, which is an eBook that describes in detail how to change your diet to improve your health, and how to exercise to get your body back in shape. Sphere: Related Content
FACTS TO PONDER
Doctors:
(A) The number of physicians in the U.S. is 700,000.
(B) Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year are 120,000.
(C) Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171.
Statistics courtesy of U.S. Dept of Health Human Services.
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Guns:
(A) The number of gun owners in the U.S. is 80,000,000. (Yes, that's 80 million..)
(B) The number of accidental gun deaths per year, all age groups, is 1,500.
(C) The number of accidental deaths per gun owner is .000188.
Statistics courtesy of FBI
Conclusion:
So, statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.
Remember, "Guns don't kill people, doctors do."
FACT: NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN, BUT ALMOST EVERYONE HAS AT LEAST ONE DOCTOR.
Please alert your friends to this alarming threat. We must ban doctors before this gets completely out of hand!!!!!
Out of concern for the public at large, we have withheld the statistics on Lawyers for fear the shock would cause people to panic and seek medical attention.
Courtesy: To The Point News
Simply Eat!
Are you like me and have a hard time with eating beans and grains, despite the fact they're supposed to be 'healthy'?
Do you gain fat when you eat even "non-refined" healthy carbs like brown rice?
I did -- until recently.
Here's your mid-week tip:
Soak all grains and legumes for 24 hours prior to cooking them.
Don't worry -- they taste the same. They're even more fluffy. But, more important than that -- they are now "lectin-free"... or 90% there.
What are lectins?
Lectins are protein and protein-family substances that love to bind to stuff and mess with your body's cellular structure.
The have a nasty habit of rendering even the most healthy of foods (almost always plant-based) very unhealthy for you to consume.
This does not have to be.
Simply soaking brown rice and legumes (beans) in water for 24 hours, according to food allergy researcher Dr. David Freed, causes the lectins in both foods to be destroyed 10 minutes into cooking.
This will not happen if you cook grains normally.
This is why you may be sniffling or having a hard time with "good carbs" in your diet. There are other reasons, but I've found this to be the ace in the hole.
Try it and see if your grains don't go down better.
Want more tips like this, as well as the 5 Steps that are guaranteed to make any food plan (die-t... spelled that way because look at the first three letters... this plan is not a death sentence!) --
- 5 times easier
- 5 times faster (as fast as possible to shed fat in a healthy way)
- 5 times more powerful (something you cannmanage for life!)
Scientific Breakthrough Discovers Root Cause of Alzheimer's Disease
There are scientific advancements that look promising for preventing and even reversing the early stages of Alzheimer's disease.
Alzheimer's disease is a progressive deterioration of the brain, first described in 1907 by the German neurologist Alois Alzheimer (1864–1915). It is the most common form of dementing, or mind-depriving, illness, affecting cells in an area of the brain important to memory.
Alzheimer's disease or Alzheimer's syndrome most commonly strikes elderly adults, but it has also been known to afflict people in their late twenties.
People with Alzheimer’s experience difficulties communicating, learning, thinking and reasoning – problems severe enough to have an impact on an individual’s work, social activities and family life.
Alzheimer's is the most common neurodegenerative disease in the number of people affected. It is emerging to potentially become the largest medical problem facing the elderly in the 21st century.
Currently there are as many as 5 million Americans living with Alzheimer’s and that number is expected to grow to as many as 16 million by 2050.
A new person is diagnosed with Alzheimer's every 71 seconds, and because people are living longer Alzheimer's disease has become a serious health problem that governments must face; this disease is now the sixth leading cause of death in America alone. Alzheimer's disease is becoming tragically common.
Over 12 million people worldwide suffer from Alzheimer's disease. The direct and indirect cost of caring for Alzheimer's victims in the United States alone is more than $100 billion a year.
With these startling statistics, can anything be done to save our brains from this horrific deterioration? Will more seniors be able to avoid falling victim to Alzheimer's as the elderly population increases? Are we finally getting close to a cure?
The conventional medical approach is limited to pain relief and controlling some of the related symptoms by using expensive prescription drugs riddled with side effects.
But in reality, extensive research reveals that proliferation of Alzheimer’s disease in society is a direct manifestation of our changed lifestyles. When people around the world experience similar problems, it's not a random incident but a methodical process spreading across cultures and borders.
You see, our lifestyle choices have gotten us into this mess. We need to make the right choices to get us out.
The fact is the exponential increase in Alzheimer’s disease is really the result of the way our lives have changed. The bad news is we are used to living a certain way now and it isn’t easy to change. The good news is that change is in our power and with it better health.
One way to help lower the risk of dementia and one that you can have responsibility for is to change your habits of life, eat healthily and take regular exercise. Currently, researchers studying Alzheimer's patients have noticed that those who stay healthy and take specific nutritional supplements have slowed down and even reversed the decline.
Conclusion
Overcoming Alzheimer’s is no easy matter. However, there new approaches today that seem promising and more and more people are finding that they can start to reverse their Alzheimer’s.
Now check out this: The Alzheimers-Reversing Breakthrough
The Female Orgasm Revealed
Gabrielle Moore, the author of The Female Orgasm Revealed, is a sex expert, who has a collection of books, articles and products, designed especially to provide sexual education. Many of them are particularly designed to help men, but she also has others that will interest women, or the whole couple.
Two facts from her book:
1. Women fake an orgasm; men don’t. Almost three out of every four women have faked an orgasm.
2. Women cheat: One out of every two women will cheat on her partner because she is not able to reach an orgasm with him.
The Female Orgasm Revealed is a professionally written e-book. In it, you will learn:
- How the female anatomy works.
- How an orgasm works and the stages the body goes through when having one.
- The different types of orgasms there are.
- Techniques to bring a woman to single and multiple orgasms.
- Training exercises to help women adapt their body for easier orgasms in sex.
- Other female stimulation techniques.
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