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The Paradoxical Commandments
by Dr. Kent M. Keith
People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.
The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by
the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.
People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.
It's become apparent to me, from reading a variety of sources, that an entire generation (and more) are being bamboozled by a fleecing of their pocketbooks by the food industry, the pharmaceutical industry and the government agencies that exist 'to protect us' in the guise of healthy standards. Standards that actually doom many of us to a shortened lifespan of ill health if those recommended standards are followed.
I am not writing this, or placing links below for any profit, and I won't write a post that attempts to explain what so many have studied and written about already. But I will tell you what I have read, and where online (if it is published online) to read this information so that you may decide for yourselves. In fact, don't let anyone, (me, other people, the media, government, well-meaning but misinformed medical experts) tell you how to interpret this information, and by all means don't take one source as gospel.
You'll notice a common thread among all of these readings, as I did. You'll take from these readings something that can work for you, in your lifestyle, with your own personal chemistry.
If anything at all, please keep this statement in mind, when you are reading about diet and health, diet and disease.
"For the general population:
Disease and obesity are symptoms that coexist when there is a physiological imbalance in the body. For anyone to tell you or to publish that obesity is the initial cause of any disease is making assumptions that do not belong in any science and harm us when they are promoted as FACT in medical science."
Correcting these imbalances through diet (F-O-O-D, the stuff you can buy or grow) not (D-I-E-T-S, usually causing imbalances themselves!) is both prevention and for many with diet related diseases, cure.
And you won't have to buy or eat anything weird, like Guana and Silicone Smoothies. (I made that up folks, as if I had to tell you.)
Studies are finally being done and older studies finally being accepted that promote other than the widely accepted and promoted low-fat low-calorie diet. We as a society will catch up, our kids and grandkids will know better. (I certainly hope). But let's not continue to live as the generation that has to suffer through an epidemic of obesity and diabetes and hypertension and heart disease because we didn't think for ourselves, as if we didn't have a world of information at our fingertips and every chance to inform ourselves beyond the headlines, beyond the old-school medicine and the same old NEW Food Pyramid.
So many words already, so few facts. Pep Talk Over. Links, below updated as I find them.
Remember, no one source is the be all and end all, these are just a collection of informative resources.
Please start here at Blood Sugar 101 . Don't turn away from this information thinking that it doesn't matter because you don't have diabetes. Blood sugar levels are at the very heart of all you will be learning if you have decided to begin this informational journey to better and longer health.
Recommended Book #1: Ultrametabolism by Mark Hyman, MD
- Search for this book at Amazon.com to preview it.
- Visit the author's website at Ultrametabolism.com to request a free preview chapter by email.
- Borrow it from your public library. (I did, along with 15 other books!)
- Buy it if you like. It's one of those books I would buy for my friends.
Sarah was BORED...
Running across the story of Johnny Ecks' life this morning, I learned for the first time (maybe I learned of it before, but I certainly don't remember, so let's say this is the first time in which it mattered enough to be more than a passing curiosity) that people like him existed and lived - longer than many of us may -- 79 years old.
There are several such accounts. The stories are inspiring and humbling. If you care to read them, you can do so here:
http://www.phreeque.com/johnny_eck.html
Then click next, next, next to read the amazing short accounts of the lives of people born with half bodies that survived and thrived. Survive and thrive - some are still living today.
I know the short accounts can't tell the trials and tribulations of a lifetime, probably their emotional lives were not so different that they too sought happiness and romantic and platonic love and were sad or disillusioned during the times when it eluded them. What is amazing is that they managed, despite their deformities, to live normal lives.
September
Tonight there must be people who are getting what they want.
I let my oars fall into the water.
Good for them. Good for them, getting what they want.
The night is so still that I forget to breathe.
The dark air is getting colder. Birds are leaving.
Tonight there are people getting just what they need.
The air is so still that it seems to stop my heart.
I remember you in a black and white photograph
taken this time of some year. You were leaning against
a half-shed tree, standing in the leaves the tree had lost.
When I finally exhale it takes forever to be over.
Tonight, there are people who are so happy,
that they have forgotten to worry about tomorrow.
Somewhere, people have entirely forgotten about tomorrow.
My hand trails in the water.
I should not have dropped those oars. Such a soft wind.
Jennifer Michael Hecht
Used with permission from her book: "The Next Ancient World"
available from Amazon.com or Tupelo Press
http://www.jennifermichaelhecht.com/
