Weighing the OptionsWritten by ChaChanna Simpson
The other day it hit me. I am getting older and I won't look this good for rest of my life if I don't start exercising and eating right. In my family, as it might be in many families, we have a history of diabetes, high cholesterol and high blood pressure. It just occurred to me other day that I don't want to have those problems plaguing me when I get older. Like most of world, originally, I wanted to lose weight so that I could wear those low-rise jeans and two- piece bikinis and look stunning in them, not having my flab hang over all sides of jeans. Yuck! I have respect enough not to offend general public.The first step in getting healthy is eating healthy. You can exercise all you want, but if you are still shoveling donuts, fast food and every kind of dessert you can think of in your mouth, it kind of defeats purpose. So, to help me on my quest for healthy eating, I enlisted help of The Diet Center, in Darien, CT. The first thing people do when they are planning to lose weight is go on a diet. Just to clarify, diet is, “the manner in which people eat. It teaches people how to eat and make healthy choices," according Melissa Arnold, Director of Fitness at Diet Center. It is not depriving yourself of carbohydrates or some other important nutrient your body needs. When you cut them out "the body tries to get that nutrient from something else. If you change or stop eating something you will lose weight but you are setting your body off balance and that is not healthy," says Arnold. Your body needs all of its nutrients. Unless you are going to swear off a particular food or food group for rest of your life, as soon as you eat it again you will most likely gain weight right back. Then you are right back to square one, plus more weight and you are all depressed about it.
| | GIVING BLOODWritten by Wayne Lowe
This is about giving blood. Think of all men and women who are gay out there!!! There are lots. Think of population without gay men and women? There is fewer... BUT! If a straight women gives blood, and a straight man gives blood, its fine. But what happens if one of them have a sexually transmitted infection or aids? As I am aware gay men are cannot give blood if they have had sexual contact? Do they screen all blood when its given???? A gay man could have had sex, but not picked up anything! Is it cause they think genetic information in blood is GAY??? If health service want blood so MUCH, then there are perfectly willing gay men and others who want to give blood who are not allowed to. Why stop them from giving blood, which is a very LARGE community, and then complain alot about not receiving enough blood.
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