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PAGE 4 - THURSDAY, JULY 11,2013 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 Historic Road Trip! Of This & That Trenesia Y. Stubbs Columnist email:trenesia@pstel. net Her little ones in Missouri with grandparents for the summer, one of our fabulous martial arts parents took me on a road trip to Columbus Saturday past. I’ve added an other notch to my “get to know Georgia” belt. We had SUCH a good time; so much so, I stayed awake during the entire drive back home. We hit the road early and the drive was certified rural Geor gia beautiful. Nearly five years after immigrating to Georgia from Florida I remain utterly entranced by the beauty of the forested areas and, gotta tell ya, haven’t missed seeing palm trees one little bit. We drove through several itty-bitty towns along the way where it seemed time had stopped—ancient 2-pump gas stations; mom and pop stores—some active and others mere memories; town squares and a down home slices of Americana. Our first stop was the National Infantry Museum and Soldier Center at the Fort Benning Army base. Entering the building there’s a gigantic bronze sculpture of a soldier making a charge on foot and appearing to spur his fellow soldiers forward. There’s not room enough here to describe the museum fully; I remem ber frequent exclamations of “Wow!” The exhibits gave me a renewed appreciation for our military and the sacrifices they and their families make to assure our sense of security. There’s a section filled with heart-breaking pictures of soldiers holding tightly to their children as they left or returned home, along with hand-made signs of children with mes sages of melancholy goodbyes and elated welcome homes. An amazingly realistic jour ney through America’s wars used life-sized soldiers. I heard the orders given and saw lights of bombs dropping and gunfire rat-tat-tatting. I marveled at the imposing terrains, the impres sive equipment, and imagined what it took to prepare some one to perform as a member of the United States Army. There’s a room where children (even temporary ones like me) can try on actual army camouflage uniforms—boots, cap, pants, flak jacket—the whole shebang. There’s a cock pit to check out once you’re properly suited up where a couple of little soldiers-to-be obviously waited their turn. I wasn’t ready to leave the cockpit so I waved them in with me. A true photo-op, I tell you. I purchased a teddy bear in camouflaged uniform to memorialize my visit. There was so much more to see, but it was move on or miss other planned stops. We nailed down our itinerary at Red Robin, a gourmet burger joint. Now I know why the res taurant’s commercials end in “Yuuummmm!” It was a very good thing indeed our remain ing points of interest included rolling, ehh, strolling or I might be there still. We stopped at a Harley Da vidson store where once again I dreamed of tooling around the country—helmet in place, wind and scenery whipping by—okay, the insane insurance cost kind of killed the mood, but there was no avoiding pur chasing the requisite tee-shirt. Off again we went—this time to the Coca-Cola Space Science Center which sported hands-on exhibits of our space programs. A tilting, pitching shuttle cock-pit from which I got a sense of directing a shuttle (I only crashed once) was pretty cool. The little people waiting their turn were a lot more patient than I’d been to get my turn. Ahem. I’ll work on that. Across the street we took a quick turn through Heri tage Park which had lovely bronze sculptures depicting the textile history of the area and, you may have guessed—a sculpture of Dr. John Pem berton, creator of Coco-Cola. Lastly, we made a trek along the Chattahoochee riverfront and watched the white-water rafters. I’ll be going back to get more than my feet wet. We walked around the eclectic res taurants and shops surrounding a city park on our way back to the car. One stop included a book store filled with treasures I was disciplined enough to peruse without purchasing. While still in the book store I heard a live and soul ful rendition of Elvis’ Blue Suede Shoes. On a stage in the middle of the green area stood a skinny 15-year old, guitar strap around his neck wowing his audience as his pale hands moved smoothly through the chords. Prodigy was the word that came first to mind and, confirmed by his mother, “old soul,” finished the thought. Our last stop before hitting the road was a beatnik coffee house where the menu seemed to in clude every possible configura tion of coffees and teas known to man. The chai tea latte was a smooth accompaniment to our recounting of the day as we headed home. Whats Really Important? Now don’t go throwing things at me, but I am not a Paula Deen fan, nor do I own one of her cookbooks. For the most part, I am a good judge of people when I am on my game, and there has just always been something about her that I could not put my finger on, that just did not set well with me. Whew! Having said that, I also do not agree with the persecution which has ensued over something said 20 or more years ago. Who among us have not done things sometime in our past which we would not like to have drudged up at this time in our lives? I am not the same person I was 20 years ago thank the good Lord and Paula probably is not either. The mainstream media seems to jump on anything they can which can stir some of the masses to cry out for justice when people open mouth and insert foot or do something stupid; at least people other than Congress! I am not mak ing light of the word she used either, but goodness 20 years or more ago! Really?!! Have you listened to some of the rap music lately, or watched some of the movies with profan ity coming out of mouths in every single sentence the actor mutters on screen? I do not mean this flippantly but we will never get past racism when there are people waiting to jump on every word or ac tion so they can call it racism. Yes, it still does exist as does discrimination. Women are still discriminated against in the workplace where salary is concerned especially. It is a shame we don’t hear as much about what our govern ment is up to as we do about someone’s past. If we did, I am sure there definitely would be a revolt of some kind. At least I would hope so. I do not advocate overthrowing the government but there has to be an end to the stupidity that has engulfed our legislators in Washington, DC. I mean really, what is more important, something that was said over 20 years ago or the fact that our country is sliding into the sewer faster than we can say Paula Deen’s name. One of the big issues we are hearing about is immigration and illegal aliens. Some peo ple think it not such a big deal, others make it bigger than it needs to be, however, it is an issue and can be problematic for our country and costs tax payers’ money in the end. Yes, laws may be too stiff and the process may be lenghty. I have heard stories and understand when you get to know people who are here illegally, their stories can pull at your heart strings. But we must face the fact, that illegal means exactly what the word implies. If we look the other way on the things we consider small, then eventually we begin looking the other way at bigger things. Much like what is taking place in our country today. Arizona, we know, passed stiffer illegal alien laws which, by the way, actually upset Mexico because they are not prepared to take these people back into the country. The returning illegals place a bur den on Mexico’s government. Imagine that! If you think Arizona’s laws are too strict, then let’s take a look at Mexico’s immigration laws. • There are no special bilingual programs in the schools. In other words you do not press 1 to hear someone speaking in their language. Nor are ballots printed in any other language and all business is conducted in the nation’s language. Pay at a Time Victoria ’’Vicky” Simmons vsimmons54@gmail.com • Non-residents do NOT have the right to vote no matter how long they live in the country, nor will they ever be able to hold a political office. • Foreigners WILL NOT be a burden to the taxpayers, which means they do not get welfare, food stamps, health care or any other kind of government assistance. Any non-resident who becomes a burden, gets deported. • Foreigners can invest in the country but it must be an amount equal to 40,000 times the daily minimum wage. If they buy land, their options are restricted and only natural bom citizens can purchase waterfront property. • Foreigners are not allowed to protest, demonstrate, wave their country’s flag, hold a po litical gathering, nor badmouth the president or his policies and doing so leads to deporta tion. • If you get into the country illegally, they actively hunt you down and you are sent to jail until deportation can be arranged. All assets in your possession at that time, will be taken from you. Americans going to Mexico must obey these laws. Then why do we not require Mexi cans coming to America to obey our laws? And as if things are not bad enough in our country, I just read that a petition has been placed on the White House’s website ”We The People” for the US national anthem to be changed from ’The Star-Spangled Banner’ to ’Party In The U.S.A’ by Miley Cyrus. Really?! Have a blessed week. Binge Meals and Burning Fat A binge meal is the one thing besides “the goal of burning fat” that is looked forward to in most calorie restricting diets. The nice thing is that we can do this and actually assist our body in the fat burning process by having these occasional cheat meals. Over the years I have had a lot of people who were on strict diets, tell me that it seemed that “when they binged out a little, it seemed to spark their weight loss,” there is a good reason for this and the scale was not being deceptive to them. Our body works in a really neat way in detecting when we are not getting as many calories as we need and when we are getting too many, and when either of these happen for long enough, “different mechanisms kick in.” These mechanisms will either store the extra calories in our fat cells when we’re getting more then we need for our day to day energy needs or for releasing these calories out of storage on days that we’re not getting enough to cover our energy needs. Our metabolism and energy levels will change, however, if we go low calorie for too long (our fat burning ef ficiency can drop as low as 50%) in 7 days! The rea son for this is our survival mechanisms start to kick into defensive mode around the 2nd-3rd day of low calorie intake and within 24 hours of complete fasting. A low intake of calories for too long will result in our metabolism slowing down to conserve fuel because it detects potential starvation. This process also includes burning muscle for energy needs to slow our metabo lism down. Muscle bums lots of calories, and this loss of muscle “is why someone has such trouble keeping weight down after a harsh crash diet.” Muscle bums calories and much of our metabolism depends on how much we have and how toned this muscle is! A high calorie meal can be like a Metabolism Reset Button: since our body’s fat burning capability starts to slow down around the 3rd low calorie day, (or by the end of a 24 hour fast) I like to think of a cheat meal as simply a “way to reset our metabolism back to peak levels!” The way the cheat meal works is simple: our body delivers energy from food to our vital organs and other body tissue necessary for daily function FIRST and the fat cells LAST. Most times after a cheat meal we can feel the food disappear after an hour or so because of the en ergy deficit we have created by the low calorie days, and this causes our body to suck up these extra calories. When all the cells of our vital and skeletal tissues throughout Your Health by Wade Yoder Master Trainer & Fitness Nutrition Specialist the body are once again fully stocked with fuel, “our me tabolism gets really fired up” which helps us to bum more fat over the next few days of calorie restriction! So, after a few days of eating really lean, you don’t have to call a binge meal cheating on your diet, but in stead it can be called a meal with fat burning purpose!” “Our metabolism works a lot like gears in a vehicle: if we leam to shift at the proper time our engine will not sput ter so badly and the energy emitted will be much more steady and strong” is published every week by Crawford Publishing, LLC. Our Staff Floyd Buford - President Victoria ’’Vicky” Simmons - GM/Publisher vsimmons54@gmail.com or b3n0nbuzz@pstel.net Renee Goggins - Layout/Graphic Design Susan Gamto - Freelance Reporter Robbie Robertson - Distribution Carey Lee - Sports Photography Trenesia Y. 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