Comments on: Three Ways to Improve Your Health

By: Will

Will — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:37:29 +0000

Hi Anna and Keith! Just seeing your comments now. This week includes work and all the other daily stuff, plus jury duty, a need to replace the old computer and much else, so I am not writing as much as I would like. I agree with you all the way Keith. Hopefully you will have some insight into a couple of posts on plastic I am working on. Remarkable how bad the stuff is when you really look into it. But as you hint at the way you use, or don’t use it is as important as its chemical makeup.

By: Anna

Anna — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:30:26 +0000

Hey Will, you know mine is the same, and I am glad that I keep it in the basement, lol. We got freezer this year, and I already filled it up. Anna
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By: Keith

Keith — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:35:16 +0000

Those are pretty much my top three also, Will.

I am a pharmacist and I am still amazed at the people treated for “asthma” and other chronic ling diseases who smoke. They do not have asthma, they have cigarette addiction. Most of their lung and heart related issues would vanish, though not overnight, if they would only quit. Today. Right now. The best thing that ever happened to me,in that regard, was getting double pneumonia and pleurisy within a year of starting smoking. I HAD to quit. It was still easy to quit at that point.

as for number 2,my kids, colleagues and fiancee all look at me like I have two heads when I tell them soft drinks are poison. Just because it doesn’t kill you right away doesn’t mean it isn’t poison. Even if it tasted good (it doesn’t) It will still make you sick. Ladies, it will strip the minerals out of your bones. That’s called osteoporosis.

We need more education on number 3. We need to know if there are “safe” plastics to store and serve our food and drink in. You know, people used to eat and drink using lead based plates and cups. And that wasn’t oh so long ago. Turns out lead wasn’t the best thing to use, either.

It’s really good to see someone talking about these issues.
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By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:41:49 +0000

hi Will,
I was going to guess the answer was broccoli, broccoli, and broccoli.
But perhaps I am too partial to the health benefits of that particular veggie? Anyway, I agree, thought being indecisive, I would probably have to make it a top 10 list and include exercise, reducing stress (very important), and a Mediterranean diet. ~ Steve, the broccoli-loving-trade-show-guru
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By: Will

Will — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:47:50 +0000

Hi Anna! Thanks. I use glass canning jars to freeze my pesto, dried tomatoes, and tomato sauce. Not only better than plastic health-wise, but they pack into the freezer better. This time of year the extra freezer is so full I am thankful it is on a concrete slab, not in the house on the wood framed floor. If it was inside, I think it would now be in the under the house and I would have a freezer sized hole in the floor!

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:30:24 +0000

Hey Will, thanks for excellent recommendations. If comes to smoking, I think I am allergic to the second hand smoke, I can smell it from miles, never mind, I can sometimes smell in the house when people smoke outside. I hope smoking will be illegal one day, it is starting to be in Canada in many places.

If comes to soda, it is too sweet for me, and I stopped drinking long long time ago, may be 15 years. It always surprises me how much shoppers fill up their shopping cards with this ‘useless’ drink when it comes on sale.

Lastly you got it all right about plastics. I really think the same. Since Matthew was born, I had really converted to glass – even when I freeze stuff I put in glass too.

Excellent post Will again, lots of good points.

Anna
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By: Jim Clary

Jim Clary — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:05:19 +0000

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By: Jim Clary

Jim Clary — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:34:09 +0000

I look forward to reading your posts on the dangers of plastics. I have heard about the chemicals released by reheating foods in some plastics, but not much else.
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