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Okay. I need to loose fifteen
pounds. A few years ago I was over 212 lbs and I am only 5'-7"
so I was, to say the least pretty darned uncomfortable. I was struggling
to get up and down the basketball court, had all kind of digestive upset
and was low in energy. Then I read Protein
Power
by Michael R. Eades, MD and Mary Dan Eades, MD. I stuck to the diet
and lost 50, that is fifty, pounds. Over the last 3 or so years I have
regained 15, the ones I said I needed to loose.
When I was working
for my father one time, I remember him telling me how it was better
to work for him than for someone else since working for him meant I
only had to work "half-days" ... and that I could pick any
twelve hours I want.
I typically put
in that kind of day at my business; and my father was right. I get to
choose any 12 hours I want. So, will I be able to last the four to eight
years as President? I wouldn't miss it for anything.
Homeopathy and Reflexology
are areas in which I have read in some depth and from which I have gained
a special appreciation of how the body works and what we can do for
ourselves to stay healthy and to allow the body to right itself when
various conditions present themselves.
Smoking is in my
personal history and that I have been able to remain tobacco-free since
around 1983 is important to me. I smoked cigarettes, cigars and pipes
and puffed my way though many rehearsals of plays I was directing and
know just how controlled a person can get by the physical and mental
dependence that tobacco can exert on people. But, I place the responsibility
on each of us as people for continuing to stay stuck on tobacco rather
than freeing one's self from it. If you want to blame the makers and
sellers of tobacco products for enslaving people and killing people
with their products, fine; I will agree that they did and still do what
they can to make money by selling death in a package; and they do deserve
to receive their comeuppance for their contribution to such pain and
suffering that tobacco addicted people experience; but they do not get
all the blame in my opinion. People know and have known for years how
detrimental tobacco products are to us as human beings. So, if we use
tobacco, we are doing it to ourselves and deserve to share in the downside
of our willfully self-destructive ways. |
