Category: Culture

School Awards I'd Like to See

5/26/2016

Every year we reward kids for perfect attendance, good grades/scholastic performance, and athletics.

Beyond showing up, studying, and being good in sport, I'd like to see rewards for the development of kids' values, heart & soul.

And, as a father of four, I believe that education, in a broader sense, should ALSO include emotional and interpersonal education, preparing our youth to function in a difficult and challenging world.

In addition to the "usual" awards, in order to have a mentally healthy and strong future for our society, I'd like to see awards (at all grade levels) for:

Most Compassionate
Most Forgiving
Most Optimistic
Most Supportive of Others
Most Resilient
Most Perseverant
Least Judgmental
Best Listener

Passing tests, showing up, and being good in athletics is one thing. Encouraging and raising good people is another. Human and moral values are universal. Let's teach them, too!

We can teach emotional intelligence! We can teach forgiveness!

Let's reward & raise good people...for the mental health, sanity, and strength of our society.

Do you have any suggestions for rewards for our educational system?

GH

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Gut (biome) Check!

11/25/2015

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After enough time is wasted and research money is pissed away, in the end...donuts and Cheetos will still NOT be health foods. Spinach and broccoli will still be.

Gut biome...shmut biome!

Recent studies showing how human beings differ in the processing/metabolizing of the same food is raising eyebrows! Not mine!

EVERY human being will respond differently to EVERY food. We're ALL different! However, what's in your gut is less important than the overall PATTERN of eating, over time. To parse an individual diet into individual foods for the perfect individual shot at health and longevity is just INSANE...and uniquely American.

The longest-lived, disease-free people on the planet in the Blue Zones don't give a shit about any of this. They just eat real food, lots of veggies, drink a little wine, dance, relax, move a lot every day, and have a sense of purpose.

Creating the PERFECT tailored diet is INSANE for the general population!!!!

We eat too much added sugar, added fat, refined carbs, processed shit, fried shit, and junk. That's it. More veggies, less junk is a great start. It doesn't need to be perfect.

This gut stuff is insane. Next we'll be learning about colon bacteria. Who gives a shit (pun intended)?

Fork and mouth biome trumps gut biome...which is just a new way for research dweebs to get funding and others to make excuses for poor eating and poor health.

We eat horribly (below). It makes us sick.

We simply need to start with eating LESS horribly by eating less YELLOW, more GREEN.

No gut check needed!!!

Dismissed!!

GH

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A Strange Pickle We're In

7/24/2014

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We really are in a strange strange place when it comes to our culture and our health...a real pickle.

"Really?" you say.

Listen up.

The Food Channel and Travel Channel could easily be merged into the Stuff Your Face Channel.

We celebrate indulgence on a national level. Today is National Tequila Day. Tomorrow is National Hot Fudge Sundae Day. And, Saturday is National Milkshake Day.

We celebrate eating contests and the worst of the worst food at our state fairs (pulled pork, fried pickles, Krispy Kreme bun).

We really are in a pickle...happily eating our way into a happily awaiting health care system......all the while, complaining about the high health care costs and premiums.

Coming to the defense of our toxic culture is "free choice" and "everything in moderation". But, we now know the addictive nature of concentrated salt, sugar, and fat...making normal/healthy choice difficult in light of the abnormal pleasure (dopamine release) that the unhealthy choices bring.

And, when 85% of the food environment is sickening..."everything" in moderation is still sickening.

Toss in a First Lady who'll tell us to drink more water (Drink Up), but doesn't have the courage to tell us that the water shouldn't be packed with sugar.

Isn't Coke mostly water?

Stir in the USDA, who tells us what to eat for health, warns us to cut back on fat, and then has a division dedicated to getting the country to eat more cheese.

Add a cup and a half of a burger-eating, sundae-loving leader who fought like hell for heath care, but rarely says a word about our responsibility to pursue health.

And, sprinkle on a cup of agricultural subsidy policies that are sickening, make cancer-causing poison (tobacco) cheaper, make the most nutrient-void foods the cheapest (while doing nothing to make broccoli and raspberries more affordable).

We've got a leader for fire prevention (Smokey), but NONE for health. (I volunteer)

Yes...we're really really in a strange place, indeed...a real pickle.
And, it's getting harder and harder to swallow.

GH

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