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I live in what is basically a desert climate. It is bone dry for much of the year, and even when it rains it dries up pretty quick and doesn’t last long. I have visited the west coast fairly frequently, and the moist air there makes a person’s skin and hair totally different. I like the dry climate, but my skin and hair love the moister air of the coast. In these dry conditions moisturizer is essential, and not just a nice thing to have with out a great body moisturizer in the morning, and a generous application of face moisturizer morning and evening (sometimes in between) my skin would dry up and blow away, and that could be inconvenient. Seriously, I go through tubs of the stuff, and the face cream isn’t cheap. I don’t like the mugginess of the coast but sometimes I think that the moist air would make it worth it. On the other hand, it can be something like 90 degrees here and you don’t feel it much.
With all that moisturizing you have to pick your products pretty carefully. You don’t want to be applying gobs of a product that is going to do long term damage to your skin.

Many diet products that are on the market work by suppressing the appetite. I don’t know that this is not a helpful term, especially in the short term, but long term I think this is going to lead to the same place that 90% of all diets do. Weight gain.
The problem that I see with this is that while you might fool your stomach, you won’t fool the body, and when you stop taking the appetite suppressant, you will have cravings like crazy. This is the same problem with what people call the master cleanse, where you don’t eat anything for a couple of weeks, but you do consume a concoction that is supposed to fool your body into using its own fat for fuel. People come off such experiences lighter, but they also have cravings that kick in and they will soon gain it back.
It just seems like the same thing over and over again with dieting. There are things that will help, but if you rely on them long term, any tool will be the undoing of whatever weight loss goal that a person has.

You simply have to change your fundamental view and relationship with food–you have to look at it a different way and like looking at it that way. That is hard, but that is what needs to happen.

If you look at the top wrinkle creams on the market, you will see some fairly similar products. There are a few things that every product or system seems to have. One of these, which is in vogue in almost every health product these days, in the use of antioxidants. Oxidation is basically the breakdown of material from oxygen in the air. Oxygen breaks things down, thats just what it does. Our bodies have been made to deal with and thrive in an oxygen rich environment, but as time goes on our skin begins to lose the battle, and oxygen starts to take its toll. Antioxidants are substances which neutralize the substances which oxygen uses or which aid oxygen it breaking the skin down. There is little question that this can be helpful, but different antioxidants work at different levels and for different things.

Another thing that all the top wrinkle creams all address is the maintenance of collagen. Collagen is that substance in your skin that makes it elastic, so it is easy to see why this is important. Supporting an aging body in the maintenance of collagen is tricky, however, and different wrinkle creams have different strategies on how this is attempted.

Alternative health is really not all that alternative anymore, at least not more than “traditional” medicine. More people use some form of alternative treatment, from chiropractor to acupuncture to herbal treatments etc., than do not. That doesn’t even start to count the people who use some sort of herbal or alternative type supplement. Last time I saw that number it was around 70%.
The power and money still are with the traditional treatments alone, however. The government medical programs will often pay for prescription drugs, but will never cover your herbs. Most insurance will not cover alternative treatments except in certain circumstances, even if has been shown effective in studies.
There are some efforts to incorporate the alternative world into the system of healthcare. There is a national alternative health organization, but the efforts are still very limited. With alternative health becoming more mainstream all the time, how long can this continue. How long until we get a sane system that costs less because we include these alternative modalities that have shown themselves safe and effective (and relatively cheap). Don’t count on it soon–the power in the medical corner is thoroughly entrenched.

Some people are only satisfied with the best.  They must have the best house, the best clothes, the best meals.  Anything that isn’t of the highest perceived quality is an affront to them.  Some would call these people stuck up or conceited, but I think that the idea of commitment to quality by the consumer is something that we need more of.  Essentially, we have been sold a lot of cheap junk, and because it is cheap, we buy it up, and buy things that we normally wouldn’t–then the stuff breaks or doesn’t work all that well and we feel like we have to buy more of it because we have come to be used to having it.

Health products are definitely this way.  There is so much cheap garbage out there that we would do well to demand better.  We should only buy the best vitamins, the best face creams, the best quality food, the best exercise equipment etc., and if we have to do with less because they cost more so be it.  What we do have will be better quality and more satisfying to use.  The manufacturers will only give consumers quality if they demand it.

Simple food is best–best for the flavor and best for they nutritional benefits.  It seems the more we try to tinker and improve, beyond a point, the more we mess it up.  Not that there isn’t a place for gourmet cooking now and then, but really your options on what to do with the food usually amount to overcooking it or over-refining it., or adding extra fat and sugar and salt.  That is why most restaurant food is simply not healthy.  Historically, the poorer classes are healthier because the could never afford the refined and rich foods that the rich could (my how that has changed).  Diabetes was a rich persons disease almost entirely up to the twentieth century.

I love simple summer vegetable meals.  Some potatoes, fresh beans, some white sauce, corn on the cob and a fresh garden salad and you are eating good and packing in the nutrition.  This is a proper peasants meal, but it is delicious in its simplicity.  Simplicity can be a bad thing, I guess, if your idea of simplicity is to open up a can or two.  Getting fresh food seems to be a key in good nutrition, that has probably been overlooked for the most part.

When we are eating with other parents that have children, I have to try not to stare or say anything rude about how people feed their children.  I really don’t think that we are snobs–we live in a house that is rarely clean–but I am just amazed at how and what people feed their children, and then expect them to come out just fine.  There is one couple I know that feed their 2 and 4 year white pasta noodles for every meal since, they swear, the kids won’t eat anything else.  Then there are the relatives that pick up fast food, usually fries and a shake, four or five times a week for various meals, and then wonder why the kids won’t eat regular table food.

Yeah, my kids can act a bit picky about their food as well, but it doesn’t last long because they have no choice.  Parents wonder at my kids eating their vegetables–they wouldn’t be alive if they didn’t.  I don’t force them to eat, I just offer them no other options.  Guess what, they eventually eat–and they actually like it.

The real problem here is that lifelong habits are formed in childhood, and it is a shame that so many kids start out on such a difficult dietary path.  I don’t write this to judge anyone, but that doesn’t mean that it is not a problem

Here’s something that can shake up the old boring work-out–try a triathlon!  I know, you are thinking that this is crazy advice, and that you could and would never do such a thing, and that triathlons are for the super fit freaks who work out five times every day and snort protein shakes in between snacking on raw eggs.  Thats what I thought too, but I tried a beginner triathlon and I couldn’t have been more wrong, I had a ton of fun, and it felt great. 

The secret to trying anything hard is to start small.  A regular triathlon is a mile swim, basically a 10K, and then a 25 mile bike.  That is crazy and I don’t know if I could ever do it.  The beginner was a quarter mile swim (in a pool, in the one I did), a three mile run, and a eight mile bike.  I won’t say it was no sweat, because I am a terrible swimmer, but it wasn’t so bad, and it was fun to be there with all the competitors and share the experience.  

A great thing about this whole thing was the benefits of changing up the workout to include a swim, and adding the bike workouts as well.  I grew to appreciate both of these and my fitness level is at a level it hasn’t been in years.

One healthy habit that our family has that I love, and that has become a regular institution in our house, is the morning fruit shake.  It is not uncommon to wake up to chants of “Shake, shake, shake!”  which is annoying, but at least they are not chanting for Cap’n Crunch.  I pull myself out of bed and head for the blender for the morning wake up food.  

The base of the thing is frozen bananas, though non frozen bananas work OK as well.  Then I throw in some orange or pineapple juice (half a can of  the regular frozen kind).  Frozen fruit of some variety comes next (you can get all kinds of great frozen fruit for a great price, often organic, at Costco–or buy the fresh stuff and  freeze it).  A little soy milk, some stevia or honey, some water and sometimes ice and you are ready to go.   That is except if you want “power ups”.  I sometimes put a little flax oil, or sometimes a herbal health food powder.  You can put all sorts of good stuff in there, depending on what you like and what works for you (and what you want to get your kids to eat).  Sometimes I dump a little chlorophyll in there for a little green power.  Blend to perfection ( a vitamix helps)

What a great way to start the day!