Your salutary Summer Fat Loss and Peace of Mind Makeover

Summer can be a great time for renewal. Clean out the closet. Make the decision to walk the dog more, swim more, see the dentist, make healthier choices, eat fresh fruit. The days are longer and that makes it feel like you have all this extra time after work to get more stuff done. Which of course, makes you feel like you have more time to exercise, smell the roses and look into eating healthier like you said you would last year.

Cut back on salt. We all know it raises blood pressure. An easy way to operate your sodium intake is in effect to make your own food. Fast food, restaurant meals and packaged foods are ordinarily high in sodium and it's impossible to remove sodium from a meal after it's already been added. But you can be the one who chooses how much sodium to add when you're the one in fee of putting the real ingredients together.

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Say yes to appetizers. No, not the fried ones. Just the appetizer sized portions on big menus. Thinking about getting chicken? perhaps they have a baked (not fried) chicken appetizer that you can order, like chicken lettuce wraps. Smaller portion and smaller calories. It's just too tempting to eat a whole plate of food when you are at a restaurant because the food is so savory. If you order an appetizer, you can still have the feeling of finishing off everything on your plate with less guilt.

Take Tea time. It is easy to feel that coffee craving in the morning and after lunch in the afternoon lull. Try tea instead. It can boost your immune system, it has antioxidants, and can help lower blood pressure and keep your blood pressure in check. What's best in this day and age when we have so much on our mind, it can help with sleep because of the lower caffeine content. And we all know how foremost sleep can be.

Let your inner child jump around. Aerobic performance is so great for you. They hammer it into your head all the time but it can't be said enough. Not only does it make you look great by burning fat and construction lean muscle mass. It can also boost the immune system, lower blood pressure and help you feel less fatigued. And again, you'll sleep like a baby.

Yes snack! I am hugely guilty of this next one. It is not only coffee I crave in the afternoon. Maybe right before you leave the workplace, when you realize you don't know what you'll be having for supper and it's going to take a while to get there, (maybe you have a long drive home in traffic, you have to wait for the other half to come home to help make the supper decision or you just know you don't have any groceries waiting for you) you get incredibly hungry, the blood sugar drops and you make a bad food choice. Cupcake, ice cream, a bag of chips? How about fruit and protein instead, something like a banana and peanut butter to help keep the cravings away (and fit in fruit) before the supper bell rings.

Your salutary Summer Fat Loss and Peace of Mind Makeover

Health Care-Right Or Privilege?

Is health care a privilege or right? Ever seen such a simple question trip up so many astute minds? Gosh man, how hard is this to think through.

So I was listening to this liberal talk show host, and she was screaming about what the constitution says about the welfare of the people. yakity yak. And in her mind, that means liberal health care is a right. Good for her huge liberal conscience. But she is wrong. Well partially.

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And as to those who say health care is a privilege, well you too are stricken with bumper-stickermentalitis. Not so.

Here is your cheat sheet for this question.

Health Care is a Right to A Privilege?  Does that make sense? Ok, here is your lifeline.

Any economy as advanced as the US economy is within it, has intrinsic valuecreated over decades and even centuries by the vehicles of production. Of course the most important of these being human capital. And so the question is how do you best use this intrinsic value? One way is national security. Another is social security. And another has to be one of the fundamentals that determine your level of productivity and state of living--health management.

See how easy and logical this is? The privilege has been built up over decades; and the right to this privilege kicks in when we decide it's time for it to kick in.

The problem is our minds are so fried from the heat of political hot air. Ideology trumps common sense, and sadly even values. Like so many areas in the American way of life, we have gone wide and extremely shallow. Prepared to go to thefringes for effect or to prejudice whatever the hell we think is hurting us, the extent of our thinking on issues that should matter to us and our children goes no further than "fit it on a bumper sticker."

Its not so hard after all to give a simple answer to a simple question. But do you know why none of our politicians have ever been able to give the correct answer to this right or previlige question? One word. Pandering. Pandering because they themselves lack even that which they as professing to provide leadership. And I know all they can offer is comfort to those whose support they crave in the form of sameness. See I am just like you, even if you are completely wrong. I am just like you.

Then if that is the valid approach for leadership to take, what do we need leadershipfor? To massage our egos and give us a false sense of security?

A simple issue such as the provision of health care in a highly developed industrialised country resulted in a high level of distaste and flim-flammery partially because we failed to answer a simple question correctly for no other reason that we are more interested in pandering. Are you starting to see how dangerous this pandering can be?

Yeah, sometimes it makes us get stupid.

Health Care-Right Or Privilege?