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February 18th, 2013

2/18/2013

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Does size matter? I've always been slim—always active. Yet, my waistline has expanded lately. I hate the way I have no control over sagging muscles. Old age approaches. What? Old age? It's just a number, isn't it? Okay, I've experienced a lot of adventures during the last 71 years so I must be old.

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However, I'm inactive because of a disability. I eat a really healthy diet, drink herbal tea and exercise within my boundaries. I'm strict with myself because I want to stay young and slim forever. Ha. Ha. To no avail. Anyway, nobody can keep their youth. In the end, our body turns to dust—so they say. Earth or ashes anyway. But I hope to keep my mind active as long as I live.

Doctors in the U.K. are calling for a tax on fizzy drinks and a ban on junk food advertising before the watershed in an effort to reduce the alarming rise of obesity, which is causing serious health problems. Apparently, as a country's wealth increases, their rate of obesity rises along with it. Click here for the video which shows the charts.


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Fizzy drinks are nothing but sugar and water, yet bubbles make the drink acceptable. Sometimes a person will drink a litre of the drink at the cinema. There's nothing wrong with an occasional treat, but people are including the drink in their daily diet, along with sugary food and fatty treats.

Nobody welcomes an obese body. Most want help to slim down to their ideal weight.

I don't like any of this type of food and have never eaten it. Well, when I say never, I lie. At the age of sixteen, I drank a cola product offered by my father during their evening social drinking time. I drank it for over a year and I welcomed the taste and pleasant fizz. I guess the dreaded substance coke was included at the time—the fifties. Later, I developed tooth decay. I've seen a video of a slowly dissolving tooth dangled in the liquid at the end of a piece of string. Not good. I can't remember why I stopped drinking the stuff, but I assume it happened because I left my father's house to return to my mother. A major factor was a lack of funds.

And there we go full cycle. Disposable income contributes to obesity. I may have an expanding stomach but at least I'm healthy.


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Diane link
2/17/2013 09:45:41 pm

I just cant give up soda. I had to switch to caffeine free as a preemptive strike since I already have an irregular heartbeat. Surprisingly I didn't have any caffeine withdrawals. I try to drink diet soda but I just think it tastes awful, and I hate the aftertaste that the fake sugars leave behind!

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AMummys Life link
2/18/2013 04:16:37 am

It gets harder and harder to maintain a healthy diet these days. I sometimes wish NZ would follow in Australia's footsteps in removing the tax on the fruit and veges etc and a higher tax on the junk/fast food even though we don't really have the population to support it.

Thank goodness my kids only get milk or water to drink 90% of the time so I don't feel so guilty with the other 10%.

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