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| Eat expensive processed food, ignore major muscles, and complain about the results? |
Daily hospital trips - as driver - and fast food - mea maxima culpa! - gave me lots of reasons to repent. One vivid visual - another person - resulted in each leg artery clogged and both legs therefore infected.
We all complain about tired legs and aching feet, but exercise will reduce pain. Our circulation must push the blood upstairs - or else. The calf muscles are very good at that, but they need help through flexing, exercise, and lifting them up.
Don't laugh, but I stand at the kitchen window, looking out at the bird feeders and sing "Tip Toe Through the Tulips." Yes, I go up on my toes, and that pumps the gastrocnemius (calf) muscles.
Some make sure they walk a definite distance each day, and others use dreadmill walking machines and even magical, moving stairs.
Charlie Sue and I will do regular walks, now that it is cooler.
Medicare helps pay for gym fees, so I pay nothing for Planet Fitness. I use the resistance equipment regularly, after starting with the dreadmill. Like good food, good exercise makes us move from clinging to the unhealthy to craving the healthy.
Food Is the Best Medicine -
Especially Food for the Poor
The farmers - like my parents - were always first to praise the food grown in gardens. They ordered us "spoiled rotten kids" to try everything, especially salad and vegetables. They had no choice on the farm, where they gladly ate from the vegetable garden and fruit trees.
The irony! Poverty in the Depression enforced the best nutrition for those with little cash. Today their food plan has become the least expensive at the grocery store, and also the most effective for good health.
The less we do to food, the better it is for us, the better we feel. When someone offers a brand, new, super exciting, guaranteed to cure pill or food substance, backed by a real doctor - it is a ruse, fraud pure and simple.
Shockeroo - the food labels in the store are often as depressing as a Biden rally. The farmer's garden is downplayed and the photogenic combinations of salt, grease, and sugar are portrayed with loving devotion. Chopped frozen greens are shunned in favor of stacks of frozen pizza.
Warning! - do not take home fresh fruits, fresh or frozen vegetables, nutritious seeds and nuts - they will ruin your taste for the super expensive, super salted, grease-sugar extravaganzas that drain our bank accounts and send us limping to the doctor.
Basics -
- Lots of fresh or frozen greens every day.
- Four fruits a day (base) or six for the disgustingly healthy.
- Some nuts (walnuts, almonds) and seeds (like flax, sesame) each day.
- Some meat.
