Friday, March 13, 2009

Soapbox

It used to be that I had to figure out a way to squeeze going to the gym into my day. Now, it is practically the centerpiece event, though I am about to head out to a friend's place for some much needed socialization.

No matter how down I can get sometimes, there's something about moving that snaps me out of it. I've always loved exercising, or running, or walking, and it's scary that most states have cancelled physical education as a requirement in schools.

Being sedentary is just as bad on sanity as it is on the body.

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  1. Hear, hear! H2 made it a whole half hour before she got kicked out of the gym daycare for crying. Maybe next time...

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  2. No way... that sucks. Did they yank you off the machine? I hope for your sake H2 stops freaking out when you're not around. Maybe you can sew a doll of yourself that she can squeeze to death.

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  4. It is a larger conspiracy!!! Why Think about ..They say on news over and over that teens and adults obesity is out of control a epidemic. That the numbers are alarmingly growing on diabetes. They recently said we are not really taking in more calories just siting around 2-3 more hours per day in front of Tv/computer. Yet many families now eat in front of the TV and PC. Many teens constantly snack and drink pop in front of computer. Too dangerous for children to out on streets and parks any more due to predators. Many of the new housing communities have no back yard for children to go out in play. Thus leaving them to sit in front of TV at home, in bed room playing X-Box or on-line talking to 50 internet predator. School are not allowing children to play tag in fear of injury and being sued. Which leads me into next area. Our food has been more and more modified and dangerous additives added to it. For instance 30% of American children calories come from pop. 4 cans of pop = 1 cup sugar. Sad to see high fructose corn syrup in so many products. gross to know how it is made with dangerous chemicals. But thing is Not much different beside sugar the worlds most addictive food ingredient. But the draw back to high fructose corn syrup is that is dumps larger amount of sugar into blood stream faster. In turn the body can't handle it all and stores it as fat. Next area...Pharmaceutical companies...More people are on some kind medication. As the number of unhealth people increase Big Medicine rakes in more and more money. As the economy goes down companies looking to save money start putting in cheaper ingredients. Fact is companies are loosing money. Not really from manufacturing of product and health care coast but their profits. *whah* ..

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  5. I don't think it's a conspiracy, though both corn syrup & pharmaceuticals are very suspect

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