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PAGE 4 - THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 2013 Opinions expressed by writers on this page are their own and not necessarily those of The Georgia Post CODE OF ETHICS: Seek Truth & Report It - Minimize Harm - Act Independently - Be Accountable. Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe. - Thomas Jefferson I Am Not Tilting At Windmills Poor Don Quixote was hopelessly deluded. Our country should not be. I’m not. I’m not tilting at windmills as my “realistic” friend tells me. Next week our nation will reach its 237th birthday. At her birth America was a group of rugged individuals, who minded their own business, had a cause worth fighting for, and broke away from a powerful kingdom numbers so disparate it should have been a dunk shot that England would own the field and all of those rugged individualists. I heard a sales commercial the other day and it characterized the sale as a 3-Day Sale rather than a 4th of July Sale. I’m still scratching my head as to whether that’s a step backward. Come on folks! It is a sad state of indifference and disrespect that the birth of a nation so great should play third fiddle to retail sales and BBQ’s. No matter which side of the political spectrum you favor, there’s no doubt, whatsoever, that the United States of America is in serious, deep trouble both morally and politically. Our government is corrupt. Inarguably, corrupt. It didn’t just start with the elections, re-elections or elections of any other sort. The state of our Union is a mess because its citizenry is corrupt. Yup. That’s right. You and me and everybody that is blessed to be an American citizen are corrupt morally and politically; don’t get me started on the state of our spiritual issues. The healing requires a clean break with gotcha politics and life as interpreted via entertainment attention suckers. That is just and right. There’s also something called the spirit of the law; which means we are to use common sense when interpreting the Constitution we manage to revere and despoil its ideals with indifference. Now, back to Don Quixote. We can fix this. There are indeed dragons to slay and a maiden to be rescued and her name is America. There’s so, so much I have to say on the subject of our valiant and stalwart knight it’s kind of impossible to fit it all into the space allotted for this column. I have what I believe to be solutions to the most pressing issues: crime, mental illness (which might cover perpetually absent representatives), the United States Constitution and the rights created by it, health, faith, race, core human values, Of This & That Trenesia Y. Stubbs Columnist email:trenesia@pstel. net a concerted effort to get back to and stick with a public and political discourse that does more than the unbearably childish nanana booboo. There’s a quote from one of my favorite movies I think fits nicely here: “...Mankind — that word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can’t be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps its fate that today is the 4th of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom, not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution — but from annihilation. We’re fighting for our right to live, to exist. Amd should we win the day, the 4th of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day when the world declared in one voice: ”We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight! We’re going to live on! We’re going to survive!” Today, we celebrate our Independence Day!” I just love that part of the movie Independence Day. I often do, in fact, get misty- eyed when I hear it. We can repair ourselves and live up to our ideals. What does it say about our current state of affairs when people all over the world have formed democratic governments; their people taking to the streets for their beliefs, rather than retail sales and entertainment? So! In the next several columns we’re going to take a look at my solutions and see if you agree, disagree or think them at least a good place to start. Oh! If you’ve never read Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, now’s the time. Much of what I’ll have to say will make reference it. uotable Quote - In three words I can sum up everything Fve learned about life: it goes on. — Robert Frost Little Things That Matter It’s funny what spurs a memory sometimes. You can just be driving somewhere or a familiar smell touches the recesses of your memory bringing something to mind. Mimosa trees are in bloom and every time I see one I am transported back in time to my childhood. My brother was five years my junior and I practically raised him because mom and dad were working. Sometimes, whether to just aggravated me or just because I was there, he would call me mother. We had two Mimosa trees in our yard. One with the pink blooms which I see all of the time and one with golden yellow blooms which seem to be rare. The one with yellow blooms was sickly and always struggling to survive. In fact, I think it finally did die before we moved. The pink one was huge and strong with big limbs. My father worked at Robins Air Force Base and one day brought home a damaged parachute. He hung it in the pink Mimosa tree and my brother and I had a tree house. A huge gust of wind would make it expand. We could even get under it in the rain and not get wet. We played in the tree house for hours on end. We would sit on one of the limbs of the tree and talk or play school. Some days the girls were not allowed in because it was boys’ day and other times the boys were not allowed in because it was girls’ day. Most days it was just my brother and I though. He would boast that he could swing from a limb better than me and he would see how far he could climb. I assured him one day he was going to fall and break an arm or leg. Fortunately, that never did happen. Because the parachute was orange and white striped, we would sometimes pretend it was a circus tent. I would be the announcer and my brother would be the acrobat, swing ing on a limb. Eventually the parachute became tattered and worn and I outgrew the treehouse. Those were some very carefree childhood days and some days I wish I could just go sit on a limb in that treehouse one more time, if only for a few minutes. Of course, the tree is no longer standing. The neigh borhood where we grew up is no longer recognizable and our street which was dirt, is now paved. The plum orchard is long gone and even the wild cherry and chinaberry trees are no longer to be found. But, oh, the memories. That is something that can not be taken from you. As children we do not real ize how important the little things in life are and how they impact you at the time. But it is the little things which come to mind and hold the best memories. Times have changed so much and my grandchildren will probably laugh one day at the things I did as a child for fun. Things like gathering eggs with Granny on the farm and riding the old gray mule bareback from one end of the driveway to the other with a swift warning not to fall off. Fife seemed simpler then Pay at a Time Victoria ’’Vicky” Simmons vsimmonsS4@gmail.com 3ut it could still be today. We just tend to make it harder than it is and we fill our hours with inconsequential things which won’t matter in the end. Yes, most of us have to work for a living and if by God’s grace we enjoy what we do, then work does not seem such a task and we are blessed. But even if you work a job you are not all that crazy about, if you adjust your attitude about it, the job will seem better. None of us are promised tomorrow so we should enjoy each day and pay attention to the little things. Find joy in everyday things like a puppy chasing a butterfly or a child stopping to pick a flower. Fook up at the stars at night, dance in a summer rain, walk barefoot across the grass, put your hands in the dirt, color with crayons, stop and smell the flowers and don’t take yourself so seriously. Fife is not about us, never has been and our life on earth is very short in the scheme of things. Fift people up. Be a bless ing to someone today and may each of you have a blessed week. Insulin Spikes and Fatty Deposits I was watching a health segment about diabetes on a local news channel and the approach to the subject matter seemed really weird. They were discussing diabetes and were targeting red meat and saturated fats as the primary culprit. I never once heard them warn against “a carbo hydrate loaded diet, sugars, caffeine/ sugar combinations, or high fat meals with sug ary/ starchy sides” which are the real culprits and enemies of the pancreas (our insulin source). I’m not an advocate how ever, of a lot of red meat in the diet, “since most of what’s available is not from range fed beef sources” and is not as easily digested as other sources of protein, such as fish, nuts, beans and lentils. Studies like this that go up against things that have been in our diets as long as people have been on earth usually don’t bother addressing the substantiating factors that shape their research, ’’such as loads of condiments, white bread, fries, sugared drinks, desserts etc” instead of vege tables, beans, lentils and other things that are loaded with soluble fiber, (the ingredient that helps control sugar and cholesterol when consuming fats and carbs). Research such as this is like someone placing nails in the pathway of tires and then claiming that the mbber is bad because of all the cases of flat tires coming into the tire shops. The way insulin works: our body releases insulin in response to our sugar rising above fasting blood sugar levels. Our insulin has got to deposit it somewhere, because “if it doesn’t and a lot of sugar stays in the blood it will kill us graveyard dead!” Most cases of diabetes have to do with over taxation of the pan creas with loads of sugar and foods that break down rapidly into sugar. The cells of our body really appreciate insulin helping them get adequate sugar/glu cose for energy, but they don’t appreciate it when insulin is continuing to try to get them to take in something they already have enough of and they will then start to form a resistance to the insulin, forc ing the pancreas to produce more insulin which will force the cells to uptake more energy causing them to swell and get fat. “This would be like a parent forcing a child to do something over and over that is not good for him or her, which will result in “this child growing up resisting the parent, perhaps to the extent that communication is dead by the time he or she is older, creating a need for outside intervention.” Constant acute insulin spikes and levels cause: “insulin insensitivity and it overworks our pancreas, eventually causing a person to depend on medicine to keep insulin levels steady. When we eat high fat foods with high carb/sugar combina tions, it creates a perfect storm for fatty deposits, insulin will flood our system to keep blood sugar levels in check and insulin will then not only increases the storage of fat in fat cells but will also prevent the release of fat as burnable energy! There are 8 hormones that stimulate fat burning: epi nephrine, norepinephrine, ad- renocorticotrophic hormone, glucagon, thyroid-stimulating hormone, melanocyte-stimu lating hormone, vasopressin and growth hormone. “There is ONE hormone that prevents the release of fat as energy: insulin.” What we can do: 1. avoid eating/drinking sugars and fast digesting carbohydrates with meals that are high in fat. Avoid packaged snacks that have less then 5 grams of fiber per 25 grams of carbs. 2. Your Health by Wade Yoder Master Trainer & Fitness Nutrition Specialist f you mess up and overdo it, exercise or get active for the next hour or so (after a meal) doing something that requires physical activity, “this will help bum off these blood sugars and take the burden off the pancreas by making our muscle cells hungry for en ergy, thus making them more receptive to glucose delivery from insulin that is attempting to lower blood sugar to safe levels. 3. Add in cinnamon/ cinnamon capsules with your meals, “cinnamon has an antioxidant that makes our cells more sensitive to insulin, “which means our pancreas doesn’t have to work as hard.” In summary: “It’s what we eat with what we eat” and coincidentally the same thing (diet and exercise) helps most of us avoid diabetes or get rid of it, “also helps us turn on our fat burning switch!” POST is published every week by Crawford Publishing, EEC. 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