Our sweet little foster dog, Rin, has her first appointment with a potential adoptive family on Friday morning, so keep your fingers crossed for her. She has been with us for 8 days now and is gaining confidence and settling in well. She follows me from room to room and is my little shadow. I just hope she transfers the trust she has formed for us to another family who will give her the chance to love them. I will miss all the daily walking that she has prompted in us.
Dr. Joel Fuhrman had a great blog yesterday on his Disease Proof Blog. He wants us to all Get Healthy in 2012, starting now, and is issuing a holiday challenge. Here are his starting guidelines, which we follow:
*Eat at least one large salad each day.
*Enjoy generous amounts of cooked green vegetables with mushrooms
and onions.
*Satisfy your sweet tooth with at least 3 fresh fruits each day.
*Eat at least one-half cup of beans each day.
*Remember the acronym GOMBBS. Greens, onions, mushrooms, beans,
berries, and seeds. These are the most health-promoting foods.
*Avoid completely these disease-promoting foods: white flour, sugars,
artificial sweeteners, oils, and factory-farmed animal products. Unhealthy
food is designed to be addictive--keep it out of your home.
*Retrain your taste buds to prefer healthy foods. Staying away from
sugar and salt is the secret to a heightened sense of taste and enjoyment
of natural flavors.
You may have read that Congress has buckled under lobbying pressure from the food industry and is not going to pass the recommendations for school lunches made by the USDA. Pizza will remain a vegetable. There will be no limits on french fries or other "potato" products. There will be no long term reduction in sodium, just further study. There will be no requirement to use more whole grains, just the request that they be defined. Congress clearly values the health of industry over the health of America's children.
"We are willing to tolerate this revolutionized food because it's easy and cheap. But it comes at a high price...to our health. We spend less on food today than at any other time or any other people in recorded history. And the less we spend on food, the more we spend on healthcare. When I was a kid in the '60s, the average household spent around 18% of their income on food and less than 8% on healthcare. Now, we cook and eat less fresh food, we spend less than 9% of our income on food and close to 18% on healthcare. Coincidence?" Christina Pirello
Start now. Get healthy in 2012.
Looking together in the same direction.
Sea otters hold hands while they sleep so they don't drift apart.
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