As 2010 says goodbye..A list to see where you really are health wise.

50 QUESTIONS THAT MAY LEAD YOU TO BETTER HEALTH, AND MAKE YOU GO HMMMM…..

  1) Do you drink a lot of caffeine daily?
  2) Do you eat a lot of sugar daily?
  3) Do you eat in –between your meals?
  4) Are you a rollercoaster dieter?
  5) Do you have more than a couple meals served through the window of your car?
  6) Do you starve yourself and then binge eat all night at home?
  7) Do you eat when you are depressed?
  8) Do you exercise frequently?  9) Do you sleep well at night?
10) Are you an anxious person?
11) Does stress rule your life?
12) Are you moody, or negative all the time, or are your friends overly negative?
13) Do you eat at least three servings of vegetables daily?
14) Is your digestive system working correctly?
15) Are you on more than one medication?
16) Do you drink 8 glasses of water every day?
17) Do you work on computers daily and are your eyes healthy?
18) Is your blood pressure normal?
19) How are you hormonally?
20) Do you use antibiotics frequently?
21) Have you been to the dentist within the last twelve months?
22) Have you had blood work and a physical in the last year?
23) Do you work in a germ filled atmosphere at work?
24) Are you a happy person?
25) Are you always tired and running behind?
26) Do you have bowel eliminations every single day?
27) Are your fingernails and hair healthy?
28) Have you always taken vitamins on a regular basis?
29) Is your skin healthy and do you have adult acne, eczema, psoriasis?
30) Is your cholesterol normal or high, do you know?
31) Are you a diabetic, is it in the family and have you been tested?
32) Do you have a pet?
33) Do you travel frequently?
34) Do you bruise easily and do your gums bleed?
35) How is your memory and do you get headaches frequently?
36) Do you have a nervous stomach?
37) Do you have hobbies or activities you do outside of work?
38) Do you have yearly seasonal allergies?
39) Do you watch a lot of television?
40) Are you a procrastinator?
41) Do you cook at home or eat out more often?
42) Do you study or taking classes or continuing education of any kind?
43) Have you switched careers in the last year?
44) Do you smoke or drink daily?
45) Have you gone through any surgery in the last year?
46) Do you now or have you ever had cancer and completed treatment?
47) Do you salt your food before tasting it?
48) Do you spend more time indoors or outdoors?
49) Are you a slow eater or do you eat on the run and quickly woof your food?
50) Have you always been nutritionally oriented or is this new?

This will be enough to get you started. I think you should print this and answer the questions. You yourself will find a pattern and will almost for certain link many of the problems you may be experiencing to your own bad habits. We sometimes are such creatures of habit that the craziest things become normal until you see them in print.

This list is also something to take with you when you start researching nutrition. If you are lucky enough to find someone nutritionally well versed and trained, they will be able to look at this list and give you a much focused nutritional program that you yourself will get great benefits from. If on the other hand, you go somewhere where the individual knows next to nothing, kindly say thank you and leave and go somewhere else. Never feel obligated to compromise with your health, NEVER.

Nutrition is like buying a car. Not everybody will fit in a corvette; some people need a truck, an SUV, or an economy car. The great thing is when you ask yourself questions and get a better grip on your own health, you actually narrow down the choices, which is a good thing. Good luck...

Away we go

 As 2011 is directly around the corner I have decided to start a new blog that will chart all the things I am doing in the media field as well as keeping you up to date with the field of health and nutrition. Being on the radio and working with the best guests in the industry I am in line for great information so that allows me to pass the information to me listeners and readers daily.

I hope to bring you new tools, literature, new testing and give you the best quality choices that WILL help you make changes every day that can and may change your life forever. As older aged diseases are trinkling down to younger ages every year we need to all be aware all the time of our health and everything that does and can influence it, both good and bad.

Best Intentions

Wow, I have not written in ages. I guess me like all of us get so busy that things we really enjoy get jammed on the old back burner. I know that for me, the back burner has become a storage unit , if you will, of the things I love doing but for some reason have not fit them in the picture.

I know I am not alone as so many of us have begun many things, tasks, projects and have aimed ourselves at goals for years and few of us have actually completed the things we set out to do. Not that we are bad people or that we cannot do these things, actually it is quite the opposite. Most of the people I know that have put personal things on hold are doing many things for other people and keeping others peoples lives in order so much that there really is not a lot of time left for them. I always say, if I did not have to sleep I could have another full time career, and I would.

So what are the things you have pushed on your back burner? Is it a hobby you were religious about doing and you can not remember when you enjoyed it or worked on it? Is it a journey to get in shape that every year in January gets a resurgence of energy for a week or two and like clothing that goes out of style gets shoved in the back of the closet? Is it a continuing education or classes you have wanted to take but at the end of the day you are so tired that once your butt is on that perfectly shaped dent in the couch and the remote is on your hand, it is over for the day? I guess there are many things we have all started out doing or thinking about with great intentions and for whatever reason we have put them once again on hold.

I think all of us need to learn how to say NO once and a while to everyone we constantly do things for who know this and that is why they keep asking, because we always do it. I think we all need to stop doing the"extra " stuff we really do not need to do and getting our own selves back to basics. And most of all, we need to take a day away from everyone and decide which of the many things we miss the most should we focus on right now.

I know this, for many of us "givers" and people who do not say no, but I guarantee it will be ultimately healthier, more enjoyable and honestly you will fell better than you have in a long time.

Fifty years later and still a choice

It is amazing how many people have decided that focusing on "nutrition" is the "in" thing to do. Funny, back in the sixties people became health oriented and it was the in thing as well and many saw it is a fad or a trendy luxury. Here we are fifty years later and many of those people from the sixties are around and are healthy and still health oriented, and today nutrition is no longer a luxury, but necessity.

So what is the mentality and status of the majority of American citizens? Many are being held together with pharmaceutical band aids, others are striving to get some semblance of health, a lot of us are doing pretty well but are definitely aware that we can do better and just like the sixties, there will always be the group that feels that nutritional awareness is just a fad.

One great thing in America that is still a constant. All of us have the right to be as "nutritionally" oriented as we choose or as unhealthy as we want. I am hoping that because "health" has become a necessity and not a luxury any longer for many reasons that more of us will choose to make better choices and choose a healthy lifestyle.

I am back

Over the years the most common question I have always been asked is with all the things on the shelf in health food stores, what do I really need? My answer to this question is always the same, "how do you feel?" This really is the deciding factor when starting a supplement program.
Many people will say I have been taking this and that for years, and my question is still always the same, "how do you feel?" The funny thing is so many people will say lousy, or tired, or just exhausted or I hurt, or I cannot sleep, I usually ask why do you keep doing something that does not work? And after they think for a second, most people say I do not know, habit I guess.

Today I want to give you a list of questions to ask yourself to see what areas you need to focus on, and you may find the questions to be things you never though could relate to how you feel. It basically gives you some guidelines or parameters to work with so you are not taking a stab in the dark, but instead hitting the nail on the head ,if you will.

1) Do you drink a lot of caffeine
2) Do you eat a lot of sugar?
3) Do you eat in -between meals?
4) Are you a rollercoaster dieter?
5) Do you have more than a couple meals served through the window of your car?
6) Do you starve yourself and then binge eat all night at home?
7) Do you eat when depressed?
8) Are you exercising?
9) Do you sleep well at night?
10) Are you an anxious person?
11) Does stress rule your life?
12) Are you moody, or negative all the time?
13) Do you eat at least three servings of vegetables daily?
14) Is your digestive system working correctly?
15) Are you on more than one medication?
16) Do you drink 8 glasses of water every day?
17) Do you work on computers daily and are your eyes healthy?
18) Is your blood pressure normal?
19) How are you hormonally?
20) Do you use antibiotics frequently?
21) Have you been to the dentist within the last twelve months?
22) Have you had bloodwork and a physical in the last year?
23) Do you work in a germ filled atmosphere at work?
24) Are you a happy person?
25) Are you always tired and running behind?
26) Do you have eliminations every single day?
27) Are your fingernails and hair healthy?
28) Have you ever taken vitamins on a regular basis?
29) Is your skin healthy and do you have adult acne?
30) Is your cholesterol normal or high?
31) Are you a diabetic, is it in the family and have you been tested?
32) Do you have a pet?
33) Do you travel frequently?
34) Do you bruise easily and do your gums bleed?
35) How is your memory and do you get headaches frequently?
36) Do you have a nervous stomach?
37) Do you have hobbies or activities you do outside of work?
38) Do you have seasonal allergies?3
39) Do you watch a lot of television?
40) Are you a procrastinator?
41) Do you cook at home or eat out more often?
42) Do you study or taking classes or continuing education of any kind?
43) Have you switched careers in the last year?
44) Do you smoke or drink daily?
45) Have you gone through any surgery in the last year?
46) Do you now or have you ever had cancer and completed treatment?
47) Do you salt your food before tasting it?
48) Do you spend more time indoors or outdoors?
49) Are you a slow eater or do you eat on the run and quickly woof your food?
50) Have you always been nutritionally oriented or is this new?

This will be enough to get you started. I think you should print this and answer the questions. You yourself will find a pattern and will almost for certain link many of the problems you may be experiencing to your own bad habits. We sometimes are such creatures of habit that the craziest things become normal until you see them in print.

Make sure to hold on to these questions because every month I will add some more. This will let you get closer and closer to formulating your own areas that you will want to pay attention to. Something that drives me crazy is when you are told that one thing will do great for everyone, which is absurd because we are all different.

This list is also something to take with you when you start researching nutrition. If you are lucky enough to find someone nutritionally well versed and trained, they will be able to look at this list and give you a very focused nutritional program that you yourself will get great benefits from. If on the other hand, you go somewhere where the individual knows next to nothing, kindly say thank you and leave and go somewhere else. Never feel obligated to compromise with your health, NEVER.

Always work with someone that is knowledgeable and knows about health situations and also medications and side effects, and is well versed in alternatives. I always tell everybody to ask yourself, would you let this person work with and make a vitamin supplement program for your mother? Hopefully you like you Mother and you would want a trusting individual to work with her. If your gut tells you yes, then give them a try.

Nutrition is like buying a car. Not everybody will fit in a corvette, some people need a truck, an SUV, or an economy car. The great thing is when you ask yourself questions and get a better grip on your own health, you actually narrow down the choices, which is a good thing.Good luck...