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| THE BEST MEDICINEf- LAUGH! FIRST DOSE There are always two ways to look at everything, I guess. My wife and I were sitting at a table at my high school reunion last October, and I kept staring at a drunken lady swigging her drink as she sat alone at a nearby table. My wife noticed me staring and asked me, "Do you know her?". "Yes", I sighed, "She's my old girlfriend. I understand she took to drinking right after we split up those many years ago, and I hear she hasn't been sober since." "My God!" says my wife, "Who would think a person could go on celebrating that long?" Got a Joke? E-mail it to us: frontpage@collectivewizdom .com |
| THE BEST MEDICINE- LAUGH! SECOND DOSE Last night, my friend and I were sitting in the living room and I said to her, "I never want to live in a vegetative state, dependent on some machine and fluids from a bottle. If that ever happens, just pull the plug." She got up, unplugged the TV, and threw out my wine |
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February 23, 2008
By Susan M. Callahan, Associate Editor and Featured Columnist
Diet and Exercise
For diet, I have a simple one
1. Eat egg whites, wheat toast and yogurt for breakfast. One
piece of fruit (a pear, a small apple, a half a banana or a small
banana). Tall glass of cold water. If you have to have coffee,
okay cut 1% milk instead of cream and artificial sweetener, if
you must have a sweet taste.
2. Lunch, eat a turkey sandwich, lettuce tomatoes on wheat.
Add a really big salad. Balsamic and a spoon of olive oil for
dressing. Big glass of cold water.
3. Dinner. Fish and a huge amount of steamed ( or sauteed in a
little olive oil spray) vegetables, made up of greens, broccoli.
Again, a salad also. Big glass of cold water.
For exercise. The simple exercises that you can do either in a
gym or at home work best.
1. Squats. Do 3 sets of 8 to start with. When that's
comfortable, do 3 sets of 12.
2. Push-ups. Aim for 15 full military style if you've never done
any. Build up to 25.
3.For cardio, walk at least 45 minutes to 1 hour each day. If
that's too comfortable, try speeding up.
4. Dance. No matter your age, dancing is one of the best cardio
workouts. If you're young, try hip-hop. I did hip-hop classes
for fun this past summer, and believe me, it's a strenuous
work-out. Try modern, jazz, or free-style. There's a reason
dancers have such amazing bodies!
Your Bowel Movements --How they Relate to Your Diet
Bowel movements need sufficient water and sufficient bulk to
come out the proper size and in the proper frequency.
What is that ideal frequency? It depends on what you eat. It
takes meat between 48-72 hours to make its way from your
mouth, through your stomach, intestines and out. It takes
most vegetables about 2 hours.
But, if you are eating a balanced diet, most doctors expect you
to void at least once per day, more if you're eating a lot of
vegetables and other foods containing fiber.
Constipation --indicated by straining to void withoit successful
or minimally successful voiding---often increases as we age for
a number of reasons. The muscles in our rectum don't relax
when they should to allow voiding.
Sometimes, the problem is that we are too sedentary. Exercise
helps you to void by helping the intestines to move the
contributions along.
Sometimes, our medications are at fault.
Many drugs or minerals slow down the passage of our stool
through the large intestine. Watch out for foods or drugs high
in iron, calcium blockers, antihistamines, opioids, high blood
pressure medications, anti-depressants, and antacids.
What if you are not voiding? How long can you go without
voiding before it's a sign of an emergency? Unfortunately,
there is no magic number that fits all cases. Simple
constipation is different from intestinal blockage.
Intestinal blockage means that the bowels cannot move
through because something is blocking them. This is a serious
medical emergency and requires immediate attention. See
www.mayoclinic.com. The Mayo Clinic lists the following
symptoms for intestinal blockage:
crampy abdominal pain that comes and goes (intermittent)
Nausea
Vomiting
Inability to have a bowel movement or pass gas
Swelling of the abdomen (distention)
Abdominal tenderness
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