McCain's Freedom Destroying Bill

[Lynnie]

No major nerve! Sorry if if came off that way, I posted in a hurry and didn't think it was that radical.

Psycho? That's radical!

 

[Miss Critter]

"Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories." --John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

I'm just sayin'. ;-)

 

[Susan Horn]

"Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories." --John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

I'm just sayin'. ;-)

Indeed. I used to have so many notions about what good parents could do and should do, and how I was going to do, and saw all kinds of things wrong with other parents' methods, ha! Now I say any parent who gets a kid to legal majority in more or less one piece and not in jail has done a great job!

There must be a special chocolate-covered place in heaven for single parents. I do not now how they do it, and am so very grateful I never had to find out if I was up to the job.

 

[Susan Horn]

No major nerve! Sorry if if came off that way, I posted in a hurry and didn't think it was that radical.

Cool. Maybe it's just that I've always really hated baloney, teehee. (One of few foods I don't like; rutabagas and tongue are the two others that come to mind -- as my mother used to say, Susan eats just about anything that doesn't eat her first.)

 

[30A Skunkape]

Hey Skunk, I disagree completely, especially in this era when so many moms work fulltime outside the home, and often haven't had much nutritional info themselves (I don't think they've been offering Home Ec in public schools for a couple of generations now).

I was fortunate in that I was able to self-educate about nutrition and wellness in my baby-having and child-rearing years, since much of the time I was blessed not to need to work outside the home for $$ (God Bless Hub for making that possible!). I could not have done a proper job of teaching the boys nutrition, wellness and so on if I'd had even a part time job.

Y'all don't have kids yet, do you? I know in my pre-parenthood days it was impossible for me to grasp how much time and mental-emotional-spiritual energy parenting required of friends who'd started their families before we did. Once I had children of my own, I learned right quick how all-consuming a career it is, and I totally get it now, how moms who also work outside the home -- especially single moms -- do not have time or energy to make all-fresh-from-scratch meals!

Scooterbug, lucky you for having docs that promoted healthy lifestyles. Some of mine have too, but they often come to that from a very general perspective and are not at all well versed in specifics for various conditions, at least not by comparison to other healthcare pros I've been to who focus more on prevention and wellness with specific, targeted recommendations and even teaching classes from time to time.

If some MDs don't want to promote wellness and prevention through educating their clients, it should not be alarming to anyone that more and more of their clients will spend at least part of their healthcare dollars with practitioners who will focus on wellness, prevention, nutrition, etc. That trend is already well-established, based on info I've been seeing over the last decade or two.

I know it isn't easy these days trying to feed kids correctly, but the sad fact is that by the time someone independently goes to a doctor's office their lifestyle and eating habits will probably be locked in. Most people have a basic understanding of what should and shouldn't go into their mouths;whether or not they adhere to their suspicion is a whole other matter. Believe me when I tell you most people do not want to be lectured to regarding their eating habits. Much more relevant to them is the list of maladies they want to discuss. Given the dual truths that an appointment is finite and customers want to be satisfied or they will go elsewhere, nutrition and lifestyle are often, but not always, placed on the back burner.

 

[Miss Critter]

I would tend to agree with you, skunky, that the majority of patients want a pill to "undo" the damage that could be avoided by eating and behaving in less destructive ways. I'd guess this is a major frustration for conscientious docs.

 

[scooterbug44]

Cool. Maybe it's just that I've always really hated baloney, teehee. (One of few foods I don't like; rutabagas and tongue are the two others that come to mind -- as my mother used to say, Susan eats just about anything that doesn't eat her first.)

I love baloney - that's what we got for a quick lunch in the summer - baloney roll ups, carrot and celery sticks or sliced apple, cheese slices, and a glass of milk.

 

[Bobskunk]

Regulation

Well wonderful. I, and my dog are taking fish oil daily, and we are being exposed to PCBs. I should just eat cheesecake and stop worrying being healthy.
The Truth Behind Fish Oil Concerns - ABC News

 

[Susan Horn]

Thanks, and dang! I've already sent that link to my nutrition pro to ask her advice. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

I have fits every time I try to decide what kind of seafood is the best choice, for my health and for that of the planet. It's pretty confusing sometimes, but I try to eat sardines often because they say the toxins don't accumulate/concentrate as much in smaller fish as they do in the bigger predator fish....

 

[Pirate]

And you want the government to administer healthcare.......... nice.