10 EASY THINGS YOU CAN DO TO IMPROVE YOUR HEALTH
1. Use toothpicks after you eat. Dentists all seem to agree on this one.
2. Eat breakfast every day, even if it's just a "Zone Bar" or something.
3. If you're fatigued after lunch and you can manage it, take a short nap.
4. Replace beat-up old shoes, or at least stick some padded arch supports in them.
5. Keep some sunscreen in the medicine cabinet, and get in the habit of putting it on your face on most days. SPF 15 is fine and it won't make you look like you just got back from clown camp.
6. Wash all fruits and vegetables before eating them, EVEN IF they are organic. Remember: salmonella is organic, too.
7. Wear a helmet when you bike, ski, or snowboard.
8. If you hate the gym, invest in a treadmill or stationary bike, or whatever will get you an easy 30 minutes of exercise on most days.
9. Wash your hands any time you even talk to someone with a cold.
10. Bring a quart of water with you to work every day. Try to finish it before going home. Stop giving worrying about peeing so much.
2 comments:
Dear Dr. Tongahead,
Regarding peeing so much: Is peeing a lot a potentially worrying sign for people who are at risk for diabetes? I don't know if peeing a lot is still considered a symptom of the disease but there's this: "Aretaeus the Cappadocian, the immortal Alexandrian physician of the second Century, was confronted with a patient exhibiting excessive urination. He chose a Greek word, diabetes (meaning that which passes through), to define what he considered to be the dominant clinical sign in his patient. The Greek prefix, dia-, means through or entirely, (as in words such as diagnosis, dialect, dialysis, and diadochokinesis) and is appended to the Greek stem, baino-, meaning to go."
Presumably the Greek dude's medicine is a bit outdated, but then again they still use his frickin word for the disease...
these ten tips should be made available to everyone in a little laminated card we can stick in our wallets. on the flip side we can add our partner's or kid's clothing/shoe/hat sizes so that we don't but the wrong of items that can't be returned (a particular plague of mine).
I particularly like the reminder that salmonella is organic too.
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