Staying Healthy by DREAMTROVE

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Staying Healthy

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Monday, January 31, 2011 6:31 PM

DREAMTROVE

Something better than burger king and tv, any ideas? What do you do to stay healthy?

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Monday, January 31, 2011 6:42 PM

CANTTAKESKY

I use homeopathy.

I try to eat a well balanced diet with lots of fruits and veggies.

I try to exercise when possible.

I try to avoid certain items I think may be harmful, though I have no idea if said avoidance makes me healthier or not.

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Everything I say is just my opinion, not fact.

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Monday, January 31, 2011 7:13 PM

ANTHONYT

Freedom is Important because People are Important

Hello,

I think if I don't curb my diet and exercise more, I'll be dying young.

But I have no specific plan of action.

--Anthony

Assured by friends that the signal-to-noise ratio has improved on this forum, I have disabled web filtering.

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Monday, January 31, 2011 7:39 PM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht

I try and get enough sleep. Seriously, I feel that this an important thing to do in order to stay healthy.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Tuesday, February 1, 2011 3:06 AM

CANTTAKESKY

Quote:
Originally posted by RionaEire:
I try and get enough sleep. Seriously, I feel that this an important thing to do in order to stay healthy.

I agree! Sleep is an exceptionally important, yet oft overlooked, aspect of good health. Thank you for bringing it up.

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Tuesday, February 1, 2011 4:44 AM

BYTEMITE

Health is relative.

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Tuesday, February 1, 2011 12:31 PM

FREMDFIRMA

Ehh... Eff Healthy, go with happy.

Eat right, exercise, live all deprived and miserable... get hit by a bus by some jackass who smokes four packs a day, yanno ?
Life has a sick sense of humor, remember.

I am still grimly amused about Jim Fixx.

I drink a bit, I smoke, I eat whatever the hell I please and some of it undisputably "bad for you", as opposed to stuff you're told is bad to sell you something worse (butter, sugar, etc).

But I tellya, nothin in the world pisses me off more than some health-nut shitheel bitching about my smoking and the supposedly eventual cost-to-society, while they munch on their partially hydrogenated, MSG laden diet bar and wash it down with a a diet soda loaded with aspartame, bisphenol-A, and HFCS...
And I just wanna throttle em then and there.

Bloody hell, petroleum is "all natural" too - doesn't mean you should fuckin eat it, right ?
*shakes head*

Stuff healthy, I'll go with happy - and yanno what, it ain't failed me yet, has it now ?

-Frem
I do not serve the Blind God.

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Wednesday, February 2, 2011 12:38 AM

MAGONSDAUGHTER

I started on this, and I realised I was plagarising. For physical and mental health and happiness, I refer to Baz...

Wear sunscreen.

If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine.

Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Sing.

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.

Floss.

Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself.

Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.

Stretch.

Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don't.

Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees. You'll miss them when they're gone.

Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's.

Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own.

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

Read the directions, even if you don't follow them.

Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel ugly.

Get to know your parents. You never know when they'll be gone for good. Be nice to your siblings. They're your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.

Travel.

Accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise. Politicians will philander. You, too, will get old. And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.

Respect your elders.

Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either one might run out.

Don't mess too much with your hair or by the time you're 40 it will look 85.

Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.

But trust me on the sunscreen.

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Wednesday, February 2, 2011 7:11 AM

BYTEMITE

Especially in Australia. Have you seen the cancer rates in Australia? Particularly among the susceptible groups, which is to say Europeans not adapted to tropical sun intensity.

As for the rest, it's probably good advice if you have romantic interests, or worries about your physical health, or if you like having friends.

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Wednesday, February 2, 2011 7:54 AM

THEHAPPYTRADER

lol, I remember that, my aunt gave this speech at our little family reunion/vacation/graduation party (3 of the 'grandkids' including myself were graduating either college or high school). It's funny cause in general I'm pretty good at all that stuff, minus the sunscreen. If I spend too much time outside one day and get burned though, I'll remember to use it for at least a week haha.

Staying healthy is relative. I'm just trying to balance the equation between what I take in and what I burn. I've gone from regular soda's to diet or zero sodas and haven't drank very much outside of salsa nights (were the 'social lubricant' makes me less self conscious and probably a better dancer). Dancing can be quite a workout and will burn some calories, though my own dancing is probably just counteracting the liquor weight.

I've been trying to find the cheapest and healthiest ways to eat a little better (when I have the patience for it). I've seen what happens to band directors and teachers in general, they get fat. And though I criticize health initiatives focused on weight or 'fatness' instead of actual health, I've gotta admit avoiding fatness is my primary motivation. My g/f thinks it ridiculous and sometimes gets a little annoyed (she struggles with her work and college schedule to find time to work out and she's %2 over her ideal body weight or fat index or something I think she said) but I've seen it happen to many a music teacher and I won't be next!

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Wednesday, February 2, 2011 9:34 AM

MAGONSDAUGHTER

Quote:
Originally posted by Bytemite:
Especially in Australia. Have you seen the cancer rates in Australia? Particularly among the susceptible groups, which is to say Europeans not adapted to tropical sun intensity.

As for the rest, it's probably good advice if you have romantic interests, or worries about your physical health, or if you like having friends.

Yup, basically the hole in the ozone layer is right about us, so sunscreen is pretty essential Thanks humans.

As for the rest, I'd think it applies to most of us. Being happy, having good relationships, moving our bodies, not worrying about small stuff, and keep trying new stuff. Happiness = healthiness. or it at least helps.

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Wednesday, February 2, 2011 9:38 AM

MAGONSDAUGHTER

Quote:
Originally posted by TheHappyTrader:
lol, I remember that, my aunt gave this speech at our little family reunion/vacation/graduation party (3 of the 'grandkids' including myself were graduating either college or high school). It's funny cause in general I'm pretty good at all that stuff, minus the sunscreen. If I spend too much time outside one day and get burned though, I'll remember to use it for at least a week haha.

Staying healthy is relative. I'm just trying to balance the equation between what I take in and what I burn. I've gone from regular soda's to diet or zero sodas and haven't drank very much outside of salsa nights (were the 'social lubricant' makes me less self conscious and probably a better dancer). Dancing can be quite a workout and will burn some calories, though my own dancing is probably just counteracting the liquor weight.

I've been trying to find the cheapest and healthiest ways to eat a little better (when I have the patience for it). I've seen what happens to band directors and teachers in general, they get fat. And though I criticize health initiatives focused on weight or 'fatness' instead of actual health, I've gotta admit avoiding fatness is my primary motivation. My g/f thinks it ridiculous and sometimes gets a little annoyed (she struggles with her work and college schedule to find time to work out and she's %2 over her ideal body weight or fat index or something I think she said) but I've seen it happen to many a music teacher and I won't be next!

I agree, happy. Most weight loss food is loaded with preservatives and chemicals (inluding low diet soft drinks). You'd be better off eliminating the soda as you call it, and drink water with a squeeze of lemon in it.

Just eat lots of fresh fruit and vegies, free range meats if you have to, wild food if you can get it. Remove as much processed food as you can.

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Wednesday, February 2, 2011 10:01 AM

DREAMTROVE

Magon

Thanks, good thoughts. also, lol at "soda as you call it" ;)
What do you call it down under?

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Wednesday, February 2, 2011 10:10 AM

MAGONSDAUGHTER

soft drink

soda water is fizzy water with sodium in it, but no flavouring

I get why you call it soda, ie soda fountain.

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Wednesday, February 2, 2011 10:29 AM

THEHAPPYTRADER

Actually, in the region I live in we tend to call everything a 'coke' whether it's coca cola or not.

"Whaddalya have?"

"A coke"

"Which flavor"

"Sprite"

I trained myself not to call it 'coke' after a high school band trip where I discovered some people use 'coke' to refer to cocaine...

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