Relaxing and Smiling Can be Healthy

Sunday August 31, 2014 to Wednesday September 24, 2014

Relax and Smile

 

Well, here it is the last day of August and time continues to continue. It is about 7:15 PM here right now and that makes it 6:15AM on the 31st there in the Midwest. I am starting this Blog now and will finish later. The temperature continues to hover around 85F all the time. It has rained here the last few days which means there is a low pressure in the area. Typhoons like the low pressure areas but we have not had anything but rain and a little wind sometimes.

 

I heard from a couple of my classmates that are attending our 55th class reunion in Sac City at the Country Club on the 4th of October. We are checking to see if they will be able to provide Internet connection so we can use a program called Skype to see and talk to each other.  It will be fun to see and talk to the classmates attending the reunion.

It all of a sudden moved to September 24th Wednesday. How time flies when your having fun!

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 As you know, my Blogs are my way of staying in touch with the world outside . Some thing was on the tip of my tongue and I forgot what it was. I have found if I don't let myself get "stressed" about forgetting it usually comes back to me in a few minutes. There....I now remember. I was an article I read in Yahoo about the negative benefits of eating breakfast. Below are some excerpts from the article:

Once considered the foundation of any healthy diet, the morning meal may now be negotiable.
    

"The belief that we won’t have our get-up-and-go unless we down our Cheerios has turned the concept of eating upon rising into a die-hard dietary rule. Original research on whether breakfast made an impact on health did find that healthier people ate breakfast. But data, as we know, doesn’t always tell the whole story."

“Lots of people who skip breakfast or practice intermittent fasting are healthy too,” says Dr. John Berardi, co-founder of Precision Nutrition. “About 85% of the clients we work with eat breakfast and tend to follow a guideline of eating small frequent meals throughout the day, but that’s largely to help them learn to practice healthier eating habits. If you’re a person who regularly makes good nutritional choices, then eating breakfast is more negotiable.”

    
  "In fact, skipping that first meal may lead to some real benefits — from possibly losing a few pounds to increasing your level of anti-aging growth hormone. And don’t worry, your metabolism won’t suffer. Eating small meals throughout the day, starting with breakfast, isn’t necessary to stimulate metabolism, says Berardi, who co-authored an extensive study review on meal frequency for the International Society of Sports Nutrition."
    
   If you’re not a morning person, there’s no harm in forgoing food first thing.

Here, Berardi suggests 5 reasons to skip breakfast:

   1. It’s not required to boost metabolism. The idea that metabolism slows radically in response to not eating certain meals in a single day just isn’t accurate. The amount of calories you’re taking in and the composition of those calories — proteins, carbs, and fats — are really what impact metabolism.

   2. It may lead to eating less overall. If you skip breakfast, you can eat fewer, larger meals beginning later in the day, rather than 6 smaller meals throughout the day, which may be less satisfying. This can lower your total caloric intake for the day and may lead to weight loss.

   3. There’s a payoff even if you’re an occasional skipper. Intermittent fasting reduces insulin levels, so you can actually increase your insulin sensitivity for better blood sugar management. At the same time, your body will release more growth hormone, which helps to preserve lean tissue and burn fat tissue.
   4. It can help lower your total carb intake for the day. Most of us are over-carbed. We eat too many refined carbs, too little protein, and too much fat. So by skipping breakfast it can steer you away from the typical high-carb breakfast foods — toast, oatmeal, cereal, pancakes — that may trigger an insulin response that kicks you out of fat-burning mode.
   5. It can help you tune in to your body. You just might feel better sipping water with lemon or a green juice rather than forcing food in the morning. Some people feel nauseous and not ready to eat right when they get up and in that case you’re better off listening to your body’s cues. Ideally, you want to figure out what works best for you.

     I knew there was a reason that I always felt so good when I skip breakfast!

I usually have a cup of 3 and 1 coffee and that gets me going. Once in a while, like this morning, I will toast a couple of slices of bread and have toast.

I was told by my Great grandmother once that I need to listen to my body....when my body tells me it's hungry...then EAT. When my body tells me I am tired... then SLEEP or REST or BOTH!

I gained much wisdom from Great Grandma Austin. She was also the one that told me I could learn NOTHING talking all the time! I needed to learn to LISTEN with my mind open and my mouth closed.

She also told me I would gain much WISDOM if I listened very closely to children under the age of 5 and grown-ups over the age of 75. (Think about that one!)

Almost time for lunch so I will do another Blog later!   Dave

 

 

 



 

 

Relax and Smile another way to stay cool and keep your cool!

Thursday August 28,2014

Relax and Smile

 

You know when I am here at home while Evelyn is at school and the kids are either watching DVD Movies or watching TV I just sit here and think of all kinds of things to write.

Today is my brother Tom's birthday and I finished sending him an email wishing him a Happy Birthday.

Did you know it takes fewer muscles to smile than it does to frown? Yes I heard that one time and I thought it good advice for smiling. 

I was just thinking about the Jack Sprat Grocery Store where Mom would send me when she needed a loaf of bread.

    

The Jack Sprat store that I went to was run by a family with the last name of Fry.

There was a small meat counter where you could purchase hamburger and cold meats for sandwiches plus hot dogs.

  

     

I usually had a few pennies left to buy some candies:

                         

The owners that waited on me always knew that my mother had sent me to their store so they told me to greet her when I got home.

That's all for this Blog. Hope it made you Smile!

Dave

Saturday July 5, 2014

Relax and Smile

 

Well this will be a short Blog. Today is the anniversary of my grandmother's birthday. We never quite knew when she was born....I mean what year she was born ....she kept changing it, Ha!  1898 seems to ring a bell. That would make her 116. Sounds about right. I can certainly Smile and Relax when I think of all the good times I had at her place.

 

She had a small house with a big fenced-in back yard and a real cement fish pond that my grandpa had made for her. She had flowers and shrubs surrounding the entire backyard. Plus she protected her favorite creature, a squirrel that made his home in a tree close to her back window. She always told me to watch and learn from the squirrel. What she meant by that I don't know unless she thought I was a little "nutz" Ha! Many time I guess I acted a little that way.

 

Grandpa loved to fish and Grandma hated to eat fish but she sure knew how to fry them. She always had a slice of bread with long-horn cheese and an orange for breakfast. I ate a lot pf my meals at her place when I was in grade school. It was closer for me to walk to her house that walk all the way to where I lived in the fire station on Main Street in Spencer, Iowa

 

Oh just wanted to let you know that we experienced a 3 day "brown out" we had no electricity for 2 nights and I can tell you appreciation of things becomes apparent when you don't have them! It cam back on this afternoon about an hour ago.

 

For todays smile....Do you know how to tell if there is an elephant in the bathtub with you????........Answer, ....If you can smell peanuts on his breath!

 

 

See you next Blog

 

Dave

Thursday July 3, 2014

Relax and Smile

 

I am sending this Blog To see if I am publishing the Blogs correctly. I have tried 2 times and failed to get my Relax and Smile Blog to publish correctly.

 

I want you to know that you know you are getting older when you place your screw driver in your back pocket and can't find it when you need it!

 

See you on the next R&S Blog, 

 

Dave

Wednesday July 2, 2014

Relax and Smile

 

I found some fun things about how you can tell if you are getting older that made me laugh. Laughter is one way to Relax. I hope you don't get upset when I share these with you because I found many of them to be very true in my case. (That is what made me Smile at myself.) Here are some of them:

 

         

           You keep more food than beer in the fridge.

          

          You hear your favorite song in an elevator.

 

          You watch the Weather Channel.

 

          Eating a basket of chicken wings at 3 AM would severely upset, rather     

          than settle, your stomach.

 

          You actually eat breakfast food at breakfast time

 

           You take naps.

 

          Your joints are more accurate than the National Weather Service.

         

          Your back goes out more than you do

 

Your supply of brain cells is finally down to a manageable size           There's nothing left to learn the hard way           You look for your glasses for half-an-hour, then find they've been on your head all           the time.           You wonder how you could be over the hill when you don't remember being on top of it That is enough of that for now. I hope it brought some Smiles to your face See you in the next Relax and Smile Blog! Dave

 

 

 

 

Tuesday July 1, 2014 
   

Relax and Smile

 

This Blog I have redone 3 times. I haven't posted Blog in a new Blog for a long time and that is why it has taken me so many times! I decided that I would write short Blogs that are memories of my past that are sometimes humorist but have special meaning because I usually have a dream at night that triggers the idea for the Blog.

 

This Blog comes from a dream I had last night after yesterday writing a Blog that I sent about my experience working at Wallace's Farmer and the Farm Progress Show. It takes place in my office in the Wallace's Farmer building in Des Moines where I worked. Every noon there were four of us that would play cribbage during the noon meal time. Steve Keppy, Dick Kuhn, Jerry Luke and myself played cribbage as we usually ate hamburgers we got from across the street at a place called "Big John's" this noon hour time I remembered as I thought about playing cards and the fun we had.

 

That's it folks for this Blog.....Just a short Blog about one of the events I experienced when working for Wallace's Farmer (Actually Farm Progress Publications) was the corporate company name made up of four state farm magazines at that time. See you next time in my next short Memory Blog.

 

Dave



Relax and Smile .....Blog Day

August 16, 2012

This is the BLOG DAY Blog that I plan to send out quarterly to pause and reflect about where I am with my Blogging! I will continue this blog where I left off soon so hang in there. I love to Blog because that is about all I have to keep my mind going. Here is a little story my Great grandma Austin told me that you may enjoy for this short Blog:

A Short Story Before I Continue

I want to tell you a story that my Great grandma Austin told me about people that called her "senile". Since we are all advancing in years I thought it very appropriate and fitting to tell what this 85 year old grand old lady told me when I was about 7 years old.
I remember I had asked her what the word "senile" meant, I had heard it used and remembered it.
She told me that the word "senile" was best discribed (her view) by comparing my brain of 7 to her brain of 85 years. She told me that we could compare my brain to books in a library like the Spencer library (the town where I lived of 7,000 population) She continued to say that her 85 year old brain had many more books in it. She compared her brain to the Library of Congress in Washingto D.C.(with almost every book written in the US).

She told me that when a young person 20 to 40 years old would ask her a question. she would go to her imaginary library of books in her brain and begin going through the rows and stacks of books to find the answer. Compared to me looking for an answer it took her much longer to sort through all the books in her brain and these younger people were not very patient and could not wait for her answer so they stopped and called her "senile" for the reason.
I think that is so good an explaination especially noe that I am going to be 71 in a few days and so far God has blessed me with a fairly good memory. Like another one of my classmates told me. She didn.t have altzhimers...she called her condition "Sometimers". that's what I have at times!!!! (Thanks Elaine)

Later and GB,

Dr Dave