Thursday, July 31, 2008

alcohol and health

A little alcohol can be good for you. But, collectively, our drinking habits are seriously damaging our health and our orac value score. Can public-health officials promote the message of moderation? I think that would be a welcome change as opposed to abstinance. Alcohol and tobacco, especially tobacco are the terrible twins of public health in this persons humble opinion. Both increase the risk of cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Both are promoted aggressively by a powerful industry, and both can be horribly addictive as has been demonstrated throught the history of these two drugs.
Yet while packets of cigarettes have some health warnings, and smokers do have to skulk outside their workplaces to indulge the habit no a day, alcohol as a whole has largely escaped such vilification. Indeed, as public-health officials concentrate on our expanding waistlines, which they should because it is no secret how fat America is getting, you could be forgiven for thinking that drinking doesn’t pose serious health problems. It’s even getting a softer ride than food these days, not good healthy diets but bad foods, and I just don’t understand why??? Maybe someone out there has the master formula for getting answers, because I sure as hell don’t
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Saturday, June 21, 2008

The military and pro health tactics

Now I know their have been a lot of bad things being talked about in the press about our military and other government agencies, but there are a lot of healthy things going on as well. I was reading a soldiers health blog recently and it was talking about some of the more weight challenged soldiers were asked to go on a paleo diet to help shore up this inefficiency so that they could train as well and as hard as the other soldiers without hurting themselves or getting left behind. It was very intersesting all the things these go through on a daily basis, but it was also good to know that there were healthy things going on as well.
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

A fun time

So I was just down in Miami for a couple of days and it was one of the best times I have ever had. I thought I would absolutely hate it, because of all the plastic fake people that make Miami infamous and I guess famous all at once, but it really wan’t like that at all, but I must say the people at the vitamin shop were hot! I immediately went on a diet of weight loss shake mix stuff to try and fit in with these people but they didn’t care. I think it is a rule that if you go to Miami you must have ripped abs or you better start to work on them quickly or you just don’t have a chance down there.
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Friday, May 2, 2008

Memorandum and post mortem

The layovers at the god damn airport is getting ridiculous well let me rephrase that, they are not getting ridiculous they freaking are ridiculous. I know of no other business on the face of the earth that is more frustrating than the mother lovin airport. Here is a question, should it be legal for children under the age 25 to fly? I don’t know. I am starting to head towards the direction of no! And if you are going to do a background search on someone, then at least make a shade under a whole 54 hours!!
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Thursday, March 20, 2008

memories

Wow,
I had a memory crop up about when I was a younger gentleman probably in 4th or 5th grade. Does anyone remember Jolt Cola??? It was this hyper caffeinated, opposite of the best antioxidant, well come to think of it, it is exactly how it sounds. A friend of mine, Matt Bodell Layton used to drink that stuff and just go crazy at school for about an hour.
I remember the boys in my class had to read petitions at mass (catholic school) in front of the all school mass and the old people that came to church. We drank Jolt Cola before we had to read it. I mean we all slammed dunked as much Jolt Cola we could before morning mass. And none of us could stand still, we were laughing and carrying on like crazy people. The priest, Father Dennis. Calmly got up and walked over to us, which was the scariest thing in the world btw, and took us to the office behind the church, locked us in, and told us to stare at the wall. We still could not sit still and congregation could still hear us going nuts in this office. All the other students in the church started laughing and all of us could here the kids in church laughing so we began to laugh much, much harder. We also we getting very loud. Anyway our teacher came back and yelled at us so loud that everyone busted into tears laughing so hard. We were all sent home for the day. Luckily my grandmother was in church that morning and I went home with her. She bought myself a subway sandwich. When I came crashing down off the Jolt Cola high. I slept for what seemed like a week. I still cannot believe that stuff was legal. It was like crack cocaine in a can. Certainly not as good for you as the omega 3 vitamins that I have been taking.
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Thursday, February 21, 2008

Thoughts on major drug companies

I recently looked into purchasing some please God bring back my hair products, and I’m reading the package of one of the products and everything sounds great until I get to the side effects (start reading them really fast) bloating, nausea, tremor, dry mouth, dizziness, impotence, sweating, homosexuality, discomfort of minorities, rash, diarrhea, hot flashes, vertigo, flatulence…eeeyouu (When pickles goes eeeyouuu) ringworm, cholera, vagisill, myopathy, KILLER BEEEEES!!!! Parkinson’s, abnormal ejaculation, (Mime turning the product over to read more side effects) male impregnation, gout, decreased libido, gangrene, omega 3 benefits, various genital disease, and fear of time.

Wow that’s a lot of side effects (Really start to ponder)… but I am losing my hair. Hmm, this is a toughy. I guess I’ll try

For once I would like to see happy thoughts as a side effect for all the pharmaceutical company’s “cures “that we put into or on or around our body. Not things that make us sicker, much, much sicker.

“But why would the major billion dollar a year pharmaceutical corporations want to make us sicker, Jeremy?? There are friends!!! (Happy David Cross voice) Your right, I was prescribed Paxil and one of the side effects they warned me about was poor judgment. I’m sorry. These companys will never tell you about the omega 3 benefits of  fish oil  or any other alternative to there over priced drugs!

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Friday, January 11, 2008

This is so embarresing you guys’s

You know I enjoy politics and all and I do enjoy having an open conversation on the subject, but for the life of me I cannot understand why anyone would want to close off there mind completely, and take a stance just because of a party affiliation, weather that be democrat, republican, green, independant or what have you. I think this is exactly what is wrong with our ever increasingly stupid society. We are lowering the bar instead of raising the bar. We are lowering expectations when we should be raising the level to try and expore the possibilities. I think religion and most of all these super church pastors or other wise known as “evangelicals’, are the main culprit in the dumbing down of America. These uneducated few who delve deep into scripture instead of digging deep into sciece. I think intelligent design is the one of educations worst atrocities that ever graced a school book.
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