Reality Check:
LIFESTYLES
Natural does not always mean best
Lifestyles - I’m a fairly healthy person these pieces of paper with lots of boxes “important papers” file on my fridge. the requisition off of my fridge and march and so I don’t visit my doctor very of- checked off. She calls them “requisitions At my last doctor’s visit, though, she myself down to the lab. After waiting just ten. But when I do, she likes to give me for blood work”. I like to put them in my told me that she would prefer that I take four and a half months, I took her advice. According to this requisition I was supposed to refrain from eating or drinking for twelve hours before they poked me. But when I got to the lab, they said that not only were they going to draw blood, I was going to have to pee in a cup--after not drinking for twelve hours. I dutifully went and tried to comply, with the water running and a picture of Niagara Falls on my iPhone, hoping for inspiration. Thankfully it struck. The next day the doctor called and was ever so sorry to inform me that I was 437 West Front Street, (on Fairgrounds), Stirling, Ontario rather anemic. Personally, I was ecstatic. There’s nothing horribly wrong with me that would cause it; I simply need to eat more beef and pop a pill. I was worried I was getting lazy because I was so tired all the time. Now I know it’s not my fault. In the broad scheme of things, being a little anemic isn’t nearly as bad as what many people are walking through. Nevertheless, I can’t ignore things my body is telling me. Once you’re on the other side of forty, you can’t eat chocolate cake for breakfast. And so it is that I am starting to pay attention to what I eat. More protein, fewer carbohydrates. More vegetables, less bread. Most of all, I’m trying to eat what comes out of the ground and not what comes out of a can or a box. Natural makes sense to me when it (followed by draws) comes to food, but I do not believe that natural always means best. The ebola Admission $5.00, children under 12 no charge, includes refreshments virus is natural. SARS is natural. It is natural for 10% of women to die in childbirth, for premature babies not to make it, and for cancer to kill you. Nature is not always kind, and so I find the fanatic devotion to all things natural to be a little strange. Yes, preservatives and mass production have made us obese, but I think obesity is preferable to starvation. Besides, we also have little babies living longer, most cancer patients being cured, and infection being halted. Bring on the Tickets $20.00 each available at these Stirling and area businesses: medical advances! Health decisions should be based on Rustic Routes, Stirling Dental Clinic Centre, Vintage Junction, logic, not emotion. If something works, we should be able to prove it works; othMill Street Collecibles & Edibles, Mill Street, The Apple Store, erwise it’s just superstition. I believe that eating natural foods is much better than or call Edith Ray 613-395-4037 or Sandra Lindsay 613-395-6114 eating from a box. But I also believe that vaccines have helped more people worldALL PROCEEDS FROM BOTH EVENTS GO TOWARDS wide than almost any other advance. And ONGOING PROJECTS AT FARMTOWN PARK after being in Kenya and watching people For more information, please call Farmtown Park 613-395-0015 or visit walk over 60 km to get vaccinated, you realize that it’s only here in North America, where death is not always stalking, that we even have the luxury of debating
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Sheila Wray Gregoire these things. In most of the world, where life is totally “natural”, and germs lurk in what little water there is, people are doing everything they can to get to a clinic to obtain some of our often derided medical advances. I’m on that other side of forty. I have to start caring for my body more, and that will include more natural things. But it will not only include natural things, because science has a lot to offer. Let’s take the best of both of worlds, and not pretend that it’s an all or nothing proposition.
JFK remembered
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gunman responsible for killing JFK, Armstrong’s reply deals more with the why as opposed to the who. “Why JFK was shot is more important to me as opposed to who actually pulled the trigger. Understand that and you will be able determine for yourself who was responsible. If Lee Harvey Oswald killed Kennedy for fame and glory, as the Warren Commission concludes, why did he run?” Over the course of his teaching career, Armstrong has delivered seminars to high school classes about the subject and extends the invitation to classes to drop in and learn more about the topic. Armstrong had also been planning to travel to Dallas to join in the 50th year commemoration ceremonies, however, the city of Dallas will be cordoning off the area to prevent the general public from attending the event which is by invitation only. For more information, contact Quinte West Adult Services Coordinator Robert Amess at 613-3943381 ext 3325 or email <roberta@ quintewest.ca>.