Do Everything in Moderation

April 2009 Lifestyle – Showcase by Larry Oldham 2009

Live longer- with pizza, Relieve Gout with Cherries,
Fight Heart Disease with nuts, Calm Arthritis
with Oranges, Prevent Cancer – with berries, Fight
Diabetes with wine and beer, Cut Cholesterol
with Cinnamon. These are just a few headlines that
I have read over the last few months from all
sorts of sources. Special Nutrition Reports,
Preventive Magazines, Doctors Guides. Most of these
are probably headlines to get you to open up the
book,read, and subscribe. I opened a few and most of
the reports or stories, were small beginnings of larger
articles that you could read further if you
subscribed or ordered . I am not saying that these are
incorrect, or that these suggestions and /or ideas will
or will not work. (The Bible says do not be a glutton,
and do all things in moderation.)
I take this literally to mean use common sense in
everything that you do, including what you choose to
eat. Some people do not eat red meat. It is their
fervent belief that red meat causes Cancer.
Since scientist have not really determined what causes
Cancer, it is hard for me to be persuaded to
give up meat or try to circumvent getting Cancer by
doing anything recommended by these books I get in the
mail. I think the safest thing to do is eat what you
like, eat in moderation, exercise, laugh everyday,
and pray that you live to be a hundred.
That is just using common sense. This method is going
to be just as effective as any other document that I
have read that has not been substantiated by research.
Plus, even research sometimes changes over the course
of time. Just be happy, help your neighbor, smile at
everyone, be kind to everyone, eat some ice cream when
you want it, and if you find that you are putting on
weight, slow down your eating. Remember , everything
in moderation. It is a mantra that we all can adopt
and it does not cost us a dime. Today we need every dime.
With the money you save, buy your child or a grandchild
a toy...
and Grandchildren my friends , is a totally different column.