Junk Mail
As I've mentioned earlier in this blog, I love junk mail, and I get a lot of it. I get some nice things out of my daily load. For instance, almost every day, I get a nickel enclosed with a request for money. Sometimes I get a dime or a quarter. So, check your junk mail, you may be throwing away a fortune!
I learn a lot from my junk mail, for instance, here is what I've learned from four unasked for and unsolicited pieces of mail:
1. Offer for The Good Life Magazine - Doctor OZ sez:
o If you work in front of a computer all day, you should let your eyes rest once every 20 minutes.
o To test to see if you have bad breath, run floss through your back teeth and sniff.
o You might experience these symptoms hours before you experience a migraine headache.
Mood changes.
Visual disturbances
A sense of heaviness
o If you eat eggs, that might help prevent dry skin on your face or scalp.
o If you walk a mile in 20 minutes, you only burn 85 calories. (Discouraging?)
o Eating dark chocolate may reduce your risk of heart disease and help prevent blood clots. (I think that is true of red wine as well.)
o Drink coffee if you want to improve your memory.
2. Offer from the National Parks Conservation Association
o The highest concentration of prehistoric human dwellings in North America is in Alaska's "untamed" Katmai National Park. (6,000 years ago these dwellings were built)
o In 1838, the U.S. Government forcibly removed more than 16,000 Cherokee Indians from Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Georgia, and sent them to the Oklahoma Indian Territory. This horrible act became known as the Trail of Tears.
o Twelve million people entered our nation from the Ellis Island Immigration station between 1892 and 1954. (If you have relatives who came in through that station, you will be able to find their names at the site. I found relatives of the man who I thought was my father.)
3. Offer from the Center for Science in the Public Interest
o Eat one of Stouffer's Chicken Pot Pie and consume over a thousand calories and a day's worth of salt. (But.. Damn! it tastes good!)
o Enjoy the contents of a can of Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup and consume 2,000 milligrams of sodium... more that a day's supply. (Even so, it's good medicine. However, if you have a garlic allergy like Elaine has, you should not try it.)
o If you like to feast on Starbuck's Venti White Chocolate Mocha with 2% milk and whipped cream, you are consuming 580 calories, 14 grams of saturated fat, and 12 teaspoons of added sugar. (You would have to walk 6 1/2 miles to use up that many calories.) (Why not try Starbucks' Mocha Light... tastes good and only has 100 calories! Then you'll only have to walk a little over one mile.)
4. Offer from Tufts University for their Health and Nutrition Letter
o Remember that grapefruit can interact with many prescription medications.
o Longevity and the Mediterranean Diet may be linked, so:
Drink alcohol in moderation
Eat less meat and meat products
Eat more veggies, fruit, legumes and nuts
Try olive oil
Eat less butter
Eat more fish
o Habits to get into to protect your heart:
Try for 30 minutes of physical activity, 5 time a week
Get cholesterol lower that 200 mg.dL.
Eat deeply colored fruit and vegetables.
Eat whole-wheat bread.
Eat Fish twice a week
Forget about the salt-shaker.
Get blood pressure lower than 120/80 mm Hg (debatable for seniors!)
Lose some weight
Reduce blood sugar to below 100
Stop smoking!
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Now... aren't you smarter? And that's just a little bit gleaned from four pieces of junk mail.
Ain't life great!
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