Health, Wealth and Happiness

Food Inc “National security is threatened by the sharp rise in obesity rates for young people over the last 15 years”

Report says school food making kids unfit to serve – Yahoo! News

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Too fat to fight? Many American children are so overweight from being fed french fries, pizza and other unhealthy foods at school lunchrooms that they cannot handle the physical rigors of being in the military, a group of retired officers say in a new report.

Thanks Yahoo and the military for the scoop.  No surprise, though.  This country is ready for a revolution, a FOOD revolution.  How about some more greens, some fresh vegetables and better yet, some vegetables grown within a hundred miles of our homes.

To say nothing of the almost elimination of all Physical Education in schools.  I am not a n expert, but I have heard that there is little PE left.  Kids don’t walk to school like we did.  I see the parents dropping off the kids in the SUVs and BMWs.  I would bet that a mile walk each way every day would do them, some good.

 

A friend of mine is 14 and lives about 3/4 of a mile from High School.  I said “you walk right?” and she turned up her little nose and said “Walk, and get all sweaty?”  (Ummm no, of course not, sorry I asked.)

Kids LOVE McDonalds, and I watch parents giving even babies Doritos and junky cookies, and candy.  Wow.

Kids these days would rather talk/text on their cell phones, or play video games than actually go on a  hike or go to the beach, or ride a bike, or heaven forbid, play a game of basketball or softball.  Not all kids, but a lot of them.

So apparently it will be even harder to field an all-volunteer armed forces with so many obese teens and young adults.

Our diets have to change before we ALL get Diabetes, and hit morbid obesity.  Just sayin’. 

I’m the I Got a Guy Guy.  Not the original, of course.  But the new I Got a Guy Guy.  The original was Tommy, an Italian guy in Chicago.  Everyone in his family and neighborhood knew he could get something or someone when you were in need.

Another famous I Got a Guy Guy was Radar in M.A.S.H.  Lost a couple of you didn’t I?.  (Tommy was cooler.)

If you needed cable TV, He had a guy.  Want a dish, He had a guy.  Want to know how to rub a steak just right before you grilled it.  He was the guy.

And, when it started snowing in Chicago, He WAS the guy.  He was the one that told the snowplows where to go.  He routed them up and down the streets of the Windy City until the snow was removed.  He was the first one there and often, turned offf the lights when he left.  You could count on Tommy.

I can’t be as good as Tommy.  His legend lives on.  But I am a sorta hybrid I Got a Guy Guy.  I can do some things.  Now, I really want to share that if I don’t know something, or I DON’T got a guy-I will tell you.

But if you want a good restaurant in Honolulu, I got a guy.  You want to ship a motorcycle anywhere in the US to anywhere else, I got a guy.  You want to hear a story about that lost decade from 1975 to 1985, I can tell a few (true) stories.

Would you like to lower your cholesterol?  Tricglycerides?  That’s me.

Lower your golf score, not so much.  Find a golf course on Oahu, THAT I can do. 

You want to share your business with everyone on these Hawaiian Islands, I’m your guy.  You want to share it through Yellow Pages and a Search Engine in some selected places on the mainland, I am your guy.  Need an extra income stream, guess who.

You need a colonic, or a massage, or some earthworms, or some baby lion-eared bunnies, I got a guy-or girl.  You like to travel, want to travel for free or just save a chunk of change, I can help.

Need a Chiropractor, my wife is the best (Holistic Chiropractic.)

Go ahead, put me to the test.  Rick Emmerich