BUILD IT OR HEAL IT

It's the last day of April and I was just thinking of what Jack LaLanne said about food, if man makes it don't eat it. When you think about it, everything we eat should to some degree either help to build our bodies or help in the healing process of our bodies.

If we are eating things that are tearing our bodies down, we're helping with the dis-ease in our body. The aches and pains may be signs to us that we need to do more to nourish our bodies with the foods we eat.

Food should nourish our tissues and cells, and help build our bones and strengthen our nerves. It should be fuel to carry us through the day. Perhaps we should give more thought to what we eat. If it's not helping to build or to heal our bodies maybe we shouldn't eat it.

I know sometimes we get a taste for something sweet or salty, but we have to be careful of the foods we chose to eat to satisfy that desire.

Let's choose what we eat wisely to build and heal our bodies.

NEVER TOO OLD

I was reading an article in Vital Magazine, a Michigan health and fitness magazine, about Jack LaLanne whom they call the Godfather of fitness. LaLanne who is 93!!!, was the first to host a televised exercise program which aired in 1951.

LaLanne says that each morning a 6am, he hits the gym and lift weights for 90 minutes and then spends 30 minutes in the pool. He says use it or lose it.

His diet!

If MAN made it, he doesn't eat it.

He says he eats five or six raw vegetables a day, three or four fresh fruits, whole grains like brown rice, fish and a little turkey. He eats twice a day and eats eight egg whites.

Do you have an excuse left?

I didn't think so!!

SURGERY

I was at work talking with a co-worker about the number of women who are having surgery to lose weight. As we talked we were amazed at the number. Every time I would mention someone he would mention someone else and we went back and forth.

Then we both said the crazy thing about having the surgery is you have to give up eating certain foods because they seem to make you sick. It just seems to me that if you are going to discipline yourself after you have surgery, why not do it before you have surgeryI.

At least if you attempt to lose weight by changing what, when, and how much you eat, if you fall off the wagon you wont make yourself sick. Plus you can always begin again and again and again if necessary.

Don't think of losing weight in terms of; I have to start eating rabbit food, lettuce, and celery sticks. I'm going to have to eat a bunch of bland food and I won't be able to treat myself. Nothing can be further from the truth.

Eat more often but eat smaller portions. Eat leaner meats, increase the variety of vegetables and fruits you consume. Make smoothies and other non-alcoholic drinks. Make healthier snack choices.

Include moderate exercise like walking, biking, swimming, aerobics, light weight lifting, yoga or some other form of exercise.

If you start letting them cut on you, you might get an, oops! And oops!, can be deadly!