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The Silent Destroyer

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It makes your blood pressure rise. Makes you crave carbohydrates. Makes your blood sugar rise. Causes you to “burn up” your calming and repair nutrients, such as vitamin C, the B vitamins, zinc and magnesium.

It suppresses your immune system, playing a role in the development of cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis, and diabetes, while increasing your risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s.

It turns damaging free radicals loose in your system. It inhibits the collagen production your connective tissue needs to sustain and rejuvenate itself and causes your cells to age faster. It not only stops the production of new brain cells, it damages your brain at the structural level of your DNA and puts you at higher risk for mental illness.

It compromises your ability to regulate your body’s immune response over time, resulting in chronic inflammation. It cuts off production of the master hormone responsible for growth and repair, DHEA.

All this makes you old before your time and shortens your life. This stuff is trouble.

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What’s Important To You?

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People do things for two reasons … to maximize pleasure and minimize pain.

Don’t’ want to have Alzheimer’s … otherwise known as Type 3 Diabetes … when you’re 60? Then don’t eat sugar and empty carbs. Pain averted.

But wait. Eating sugary baked goods definitely maximizes pleasure in the moment.

Choices!

So, which will it be?

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That’s Not Acceptable

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Someone from my family of origin who I was very close to growing up and trusted my whole life just isn’t that “best friend” and protector anymore.  This person has betrayed my trust and behaved very badly.

It’s hard to acknowledge it when you see someone changing in front of your eyes, but life experiences can sometimes alter who they are to the point you don’t know them anymore. The person I knew is gone.

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Admire It Back

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When my partner Tom’s brother, Jim, was just a little guy, their mother told him about the tradition of certain Native American tribes.

If someone admires something of yours, it was considered the gracious and generous thing to do to give it to them.

She’d related the information as an interesting bit of information without really thinking what effect it might have on a five year old.

It wasn’t good.

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Thank You Robin Williams

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Please, don’t worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting. And if you’re ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky when the stars are strung across the velvety night. And when a shooting star streaks through the blackness, turning night into day, make a wish, and think of me. Make your life spectacular.

– Robin Williams from the movie Jack

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The Original American Dream

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Do you know what it was … the original American dream?  I had no idea myself until I read an article recently from financial writer, Chris Mayer.

It seems the phrase was coined by a guy named James Truslow Adams in 1930, and the dream wasn’t about getting ahead and having the house and car and boundless opportunity in the land of the free.

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