The truth hurts .
Someone had to remind me, so I 'm reminding you, too.
Perks of reaching
50
or being over
60
and heading
toward
70!
1.
Kidnappers
Are not very
Interested in you.
2.
In a hostage situation,
You are likely to be
Released first.
3.
No one expects
You to run --
Anywhere.
4.
People call at 9 PM
And ask,
'Did I wake you? '
5.
People no longer
View you as a
Hypochondriac.
6.
There is nothing left
To learn the hard way.
7.
Things you buy now
Won ' t wear out..
8.
You can eat
Supper at 4 PM..
9.
You can live
'without sex
But not your glasses.
11.
You no longer think
Of speed limits
As a challenge.
12.
You quit trying
To hold
Your stomach in
No matter who walks
Into the room.
13..
You sing along
With elevator music.
14.
Your eyes
Won ' t get
Much worse.
15.
Your investment
In health insurance
Is finally beginning
To pay off..
16.
Your joints are more
accurate meteorologists
Than the national
Weather service.
17.
Your secrets are safe
With your friends
Because they can ' t
Remember them either.
18.
Your supply of brain cells
Is finally down to
A manageable size.
19..
You can ' t remember
Who sent you this list..
And you notice
These are all
In big print
For your convenience.
Forward this
To everyone
You can remember
Right now!
ONE MORE THING:
Never,
Under any circumstances,
Take a sleeping pill,
And a laxative on
The same night!
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
What Needs to be Done?
Several top nutrition and fitness experts offered their ideas recently as to what needs to be done to combat childhood obesity.
Give kids more physical activity at school. “We know kids need at least an hour a day of physical activity. We should design the school day to include before and after school time to ensure that happens.”
- Charlene Burgeson, National Association for Sport and Physical Education
Schools should serve more healthy foods. “What is served in schools is important not only because of the direct impact on children’s diets, but also for the message it sends about healthy eating. If schools are selling unhealthy foods, it’s telling children that it’s okay to eat these foods whenever they want as opposed to teaching them that candy bars and soda pop are treats to be eaten only occasionally.”
- Margo Wootan, Director of Nutrition Policy, Center for Science in the Public Interest
Stop junk food advertising to kids. “I love what the White House is doing. In addition, it will be important to tackle the powerful and pernicious influence of food marketing directed at children.”
- Kelly Brownell, Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, Yale University
Offer more healthful foods in school vending machines. “Thankfully there are a lot more schools that have switched to healthy vending, but it’s important that we have nutritional standards for all foods served throughout the school.”
- Diane Pratt-Heavner, School Nutrition Association
More “Green Space” in our communities. “We need a policy that mandates every time a building permit is issued, the developer/contractor must include green space for parks, playgrounds, community gardens, sidewalks and bike trails along with areas for markets that feature local produce. This would change the face of America and the size of its youth.” - Melinda Sothern, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
I am hopeful the public is becoming more aware of the importance of physical fitness and good nutrition, and that each of us as individuals need to make the right decisions to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
~Wid
Give kids more physical activity at school. “We know kids need at least an hour a day of physical activity. We should design the school day to include before and after school time to ensure that happens.”
- Charlene Burgeson, National Association for Sport and Physical Education
Schools should serve more healthy foods. “What is served in schools is important not only because of the direct impact on children’s diets, but also for the message it sends about healthy eating. If schools are selling unhealthy foods, it’s telling children that it’s okay to eat these foods whenever they want as opposed to teaching them that candy bars and soda pop are treats to be eaten only occasionally.”
- Margo Wootan, Director of Nutrition Policy, Center for Science in the Public Interest
Stop junk food advertising to kids. “I love what the White House is doing. In addition, it will be important to tackle the powerful and pernicious influence of food marketing directed at children.”
- Kelly Brownell, Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, Yale University
Offer more healthful foods in school vending machines. “Thankfully there are a lot more schools that have switched to healthy vending, but it’s important that we have nutritional standards for all foods served throughout the school.”
- Diane Pratt-Heavner, School Nutrition Association
More “Green Space” in our communities. “We need a policy that mandates every time a building permit is issued, the developer/contractor must include green space for parks, playgrounds, community gardens, sidewalks and bike trails along with areas for markets that feature local produce. This would change the face of America and the size of its youth.” - Melinda Sothern, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
I am hopeful the public is becoming more aware of the importance of physical fitness and good nutrition, and that each of us as individuals need to make the right decisions to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
~Wid
Monday, March 1, 2010
"What a Finish!"
The 2010 Winter Olympics from Vancouver are now history! Sometimes Olympic miracles go your way. Sometimes they don't.Billed as the "biggest game in hockey history" a miraculous American goal with 24.4 seconds left in the third period ended up only magnifying the agony of a 3-2 overtime loss to Canada.
An Olympics that began with the death of a luger ended Sunday with an exuberant celebration of Canada but also a Winter Olympics-record 37 medals for the United States!
"What a finish!"
USA USA USA
Wid
An Olympics that began with the death of a luger ended Sunday with an exuberant celebration of Canada but also a Winter Olympics-record 37 medals for the United States!
"What a finish!"
USA USA USA
Wid
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Details of First Lady’s Campaign to Combat Obesity
Here are the major elements of Michelle Obama’s campaign to combat obesity as reported in the news media:
She proposed that the Food and Drug Administration work with food manufacturers and retailers to make food labels more “customer-friendly.” The non-alcoholic beverage industry has said it will start putting caloric information on the front of its products.
The American Academy of Pediatrics is encouraging doctors to monitor children’s body-mass index, which is a calculation of height and weight used to measure body fat. The AAP president stated the obesity problem needs a national solution.
Serve more healthy foods in schools. Congress is due to rewrite the Child Nutrition Act this year, and the Obama Administration is asking lawmakers to spend $10 billion over the next decade to give schools more money to make needed changes. More than 31 million children get meals through the Federal School Lunch Program, and many youngsters consume up to half their daily calorie total at school.
The First Lady’s program advocated offering $400 million in tax breaks to encourage grocery stores to establish outlets in “food desert areas” where there are limited supplies of nutritious food or a lack of Farmers’ Markets – a step that would require Congressional action.
Set up a Web site – www.letsmove.gov - with shopping tips, a recipe finder and other resources.
Finally, something that we have long been promoting: Encourage children to exercise at least one hour a day.
~Wid
She proposed that the Food and Drug Administration work with food manufacturers and retailers to make food labels more “customer-friendly.” The non-alcoholic beverage industry has said it will start putting caloric information on the front of its products.
The American Academy of Pediatrics is encouraging doctors to monitor children’s body-mass index, which is a calculation of height and weight used to measure body fat. The AAP president stated the obesity problem needs a national solution.
Serve more healthy foods in schools. Congress is due to rewrite the Child Nutrition Act this year, and the Obama Administration is asking lawmakers to spend $10 billion over the next decade to give schools more money to make needed changes. More than 31 million children get meals through the Federal School Lunch Program, and many youngsters consume up to half their daily calorie total at school.
The First Lady’s program advocated offering $400 million in tax breaks to encourage grocery stores to establish outlets in “food desert areas” where there are limited supplies of nutritious food or a lack of Farmers’ Markets – a step that would require Congressional action.
Set up a Web site – www.letsmove.gov - with shopping tips, a recipe finder and other resources.
Finally, something that we have long been promoting: Encourage children to exercise at least one hour a day.
~Wid
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
“Let’s Move . . .”
The campaign to combat obesity – particularly among children – gained a prominent advocate when First Lady Michelle Obama unveiled her “Let’s Move” campaign that she hopes will sound the alarm of what has become an epidemic among the nation’s populace and will address what needs to be done about it, a theme we have been promoting in our blogs over the past year.
Drawing on her own experiences as a working mom with two young daughters, she spoke in a recent interview about struggling to juggle office hours, school pickups and extracurricular activities and often being too tired to make dinner at the end of the day. She acknowledged she did what was easy: ordering takeout or going to the drive-through.
She thought her girls were eating reasonably well until her pediatrician in Chicago told her he didn’t like the weight fluctuations he was seeing. “I was shocked because my kids looked perfectly fine to me. It was a wake-up call, but like many parents, I didn’t know what to do. I realized I had to become more aware of the importance of healthful food choices and exercise.”
The stated goal of the campaign is to eliminate childhood obesity in a generation. She admits it is an ambitious goal, “but we don’t have time to wait. We’ve got to stop citing statistics and wringing our hands and feeling guilty. We’ve got to get going on this issue.”
I couldn’t agree more. So “Let’s Move!” I’ll be discussing more details of the First Lady’s campaign in subsequent blogs.
~Wid
Drawing on her own experiences as a working mom with two young daughters, she spoke in a recent interview about struggling to juggle office hours, school pickups and extracurricular activities and often being too tired to make dinner at the end of the day. She acknowledged she did what was easy: ordering takeout or going to the drive-through.
She thought her girls were eating reasonably well until her pediatrician in Chicago told her he didn’t like the weight fluctuations he was seeing. “I was shocked because my kids looked perfectly fine to me. It was a wake-up call, but like many parents, I didn’t know what to do. I realized I had to become more aware of the importance of healthful food choices and exercise.”
The stated goal of the campaign is to eliminate childhood obesity in a generation. She admits it is an ambitious goal, “but we don’t have time to wait. We’ve got to stop citing statistics and wringing our hands and feeling guilty. We’ve got to get going on this issue.”
I couldn’t agree more. So “Let’s Move!” I’ll be discussing more details of the First Lady’s campaign in subsequent blogs.
~Wid
Sunday, February 14, 2010
"Anything is possible."
Paola Boivin,Republic columnist writes,"Thanks to Apolo Anton Ohno and a controversial finish, Saturday nights 1500-meter final didn't disappoint. The future of the Winter Olympics is better for it."
"This goes to show you," Ohno said." Anything is possible."
How true this is in life as well!
Wid
"This goes to show you," Ohno said." Anything is possible."
How true this is in life as well!
Wid
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
"Onside Kick!"
You gotta be kiddin' me! The Colts had the ball for 6 plays in the third quarter. Then there was the longest halftime in history (at least 45 minutes), to compound this time span the Saints made one of the b___iest calls in Super Bowl history opening the 2nd half with an" onside kick" which they recovered and converted into points! By the time Peyton and his teammates finally saw the ball again a lifetime had past! The biggest comeback in Super Bowl history was in motion.
To top things off the most viewed TV event in history was finished off with a Saints interception and a 72yd runback for a TD! Turn out the lights,the party was over .
Great game! You couldn't help but feel good for the city of New Orleans in the wake of Katrina,and the 6ft cast off QB who won the games MVP! "WHO DAT."
Wid
To top things off the most viewed TV event in history was finished off with a Saints interception and a 72yd runback for a TD! Turn out the lights,the party was over .
Great game! You couldn't help but feel good for the city of New Orleans in the wake of Katrina,and the 6ft cast off QB who won the games MVP! "WHO DAT."
Wid
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