FIVE WORDS OF WISDOM

╬ 1- Do what you believe is right Remember, you are just as likely to fail if you do things someone else’s way. The difference is, you shall have that nagging feeling you know all along it was not the right way to go.
 ╬ 2-A good time to laugh is anytime you can We are not suggesting laughing at other people’s miseries, but you can certainly laugh at your own. If you can not, you have to find other ways to survive, and they all sound a lot harder than laughing.
 ╬ 3-The best things in life are not things You talk about health, love, friendship and most important, family. If you do not juggle family and career skillfully, the balance in your life is going to tilt toward your work. In the short term this may seem okay, but it’s not in end. You can always get another job, but you may not get another chance with your family.
 ╬ 4-If you want to stay young, do not mellow The happiest older people are the ones who are still feisty, still active. Even reading the newspaper every day can do the trick by making you angry at what humans will do to one another. It is the notion of fighting that’s important here, of not accepting what you can change. As the saying goes, “old age is no place for sissies.
 ╬ 5-Always set a place for the unexpected guest You cannot plan everything that is going to happen to you, but you should be prepared for it, because if you do not, you are going to be hurt badly in this world. My sister was amazed when she went for a checkup three months after my daughter was born and her doctor said, “of course, you are pregnant again, you know, “her son was not in plans, but he was a wonderful surprise guest. You have to set a place for unexpected guests even if they are not so great,
 like getting fired or having your husband leave you, both of which have happened to me. The “unwelcome” ones are not to accept, and some, such as cancer, you shall never greet with arms, but if you teach yourself to expect the unexpected. You are way ahead of the game.

GENTLEMAN! LIVE LIKE PRIMITIVE PEOPLE

What did people in ancient times eat? My new diet plan started with that question. And the answer was rather obvious, at least in a negative sense. I knew right off what they didn’t eat, almost no refined sugar, for example. While early humans ate a lot of fruit, there were no sugar mills in a primitive village. So the first step was me to cut way back on the sugar I ate. No candy at all, almost no sugared desserts, coffee and tea taken in sweetened.
Soon, my weight was down to 185. That was not low enough though, so I thought more about how our modern diet differs from that of primitive people. I began to learn about why a primitive-type diet is more healthful. My no sugar diet strategy had been based mainly on the idea that sugar was a new food that is out of phase with our very old physical heritage.

What about fat, I thought? There were no dairy cows to yield large amounts of high-fat milk 50,000 years ago. Butter and rich cheese were just not available. Was there lard or fatty beef? Not at all! Most people ate meat of wild animals until fairly recently in our history.
So the next step in my diet plan was to cut out some of the most obvious fatty foods. Skim milk took the place of regular milk. No cream, very little butter. The visible fat around steaks and other meat was cut off and left on my plate. Again, I kept eating enough to feel fully satisfied at every meal. But I just ate much less fat.
Primitive people walked wherever they went, and ran to chase game. What started as a diet idea broadened into an “inner historical program?” More than the choice of food links us to a way of living in tune with our distant past. Sure, we can develop and use our minds in any modern way we want.
So I started to walk more and then to run and to ride a bicycle. It was fun. All that action made me feel good and settled my nerves. But it also made my weight go down even more. The diet of early people was absolutely full of fiber. These people ate a high fiber diet of cactus, nuts, green, berries and other fruit. Occasionally they had meat as well.
The fiber trend was not just another health fashion that happened to be based in the most recent set of nutritional discoveries. I saw it as clearly an important building block of a practical concept of healthful living that had already been tested in my own life, and proved to be enormous use.
That knowledge, that picture of my lifestyle as having clear roots in human history, has made my way of eating and living a lifelong program. People often talk about hard it is to stay on a diet or to keep off weight lost. That is never been hard for me. I decided years ago not to go on a diet, but to change food selections permanently. Doing that has made the program much easier to follow.