In regards to our health habits…
It’s not OK to serve funnel cake, french toast, and waffles as a school breakfast.
It’s not OK to line the hospital cafeteria with soda machines and serve pizza and wings for lunch.
It’s not OK to serve burgers and fries and other “fast foods” on a regular basis as school lunches.
It’s not OK to eat out several times per week, fast food or otherwise.
It’s not OK to feed your young kids fast food on a regular basis (1X per month is even excessive).
It’s not OK to let your kids drink soda or juice or other sweet drink on a daily basis.
It’s not OK to not eat at least 6 servings of fruits and vegetables on a regular basis.
It’s not OK to serve donuts and coffee at every staff meeting.
It’s not OK for doctors to ignore expanding waistlines and poor nutritional status.
It’s not OK to take medications for lifestyle related illness without a plan to eventually one day get off them.
It’s not OK for our kids to be obese.
It’s not OK for our doctors and nurses to be morbidly obese (or anyone else for that manner).
It’s not OK for men’s waists to be greater than 35 inches and women’s to be over 33 inches.
It’s not OK to regularly fry food in butter and/or oil (any oil).
It’s not OK for kids to sell candy for fundraising.
It’s not OK to put down others for trying to eat and live a more healthy lifestyle.
It’s not OK to ignore signs of poor health and continue disease promoting behaviors.
It’s not OK to (please comment and add your own here)
No one’s perfect. It is OK to treat yourself from time to time. But it is not OK for us to be satisfied with our current poor state of health. Learn to recognize the signs of poor health. More importantly, do something once you recognize it.
Stay tuned for an upcoming post that will list the early warning signs of poor health…
Wow! That was a great post. I eat and live a healthy lifestyle for health reasons. Once in a while I treat myself to something that isn’t healthy and I feel ill for at least a day after doing it. I think my body is so used to healthy food , that is just reacts to unhealthy food.
Thank you for that post! It was wonderful! We need to be reminded of those things from time to time.
Thanks for the comment! Just to be clear because I know some people will complain, it’s OK to have a treat here and there. Our problem though is that most people treat themselves all the time. Like you say though, now when I ‘splurge’, I just feel ill. Not that I didn’t feel ill before, but since I felt like that all the time, I didn’t know the difference. I think this is how most people live unfortunately.
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