Health and Fitness Journal

Salad is good for you, right?  Filling up on Romaine lettuce and fresh field tomatoes at the salad bar is a step in the right health direction, don’t you agree? Cucumbers and carrots can only act to boost your immune system and combat workaday fatigue, wouldn’t you say?  It turns out the answers to these seemly simple questions aren’t quite what you’d expect.

Greg Lawless, of the University Of  Seattle, an award-winning microbiologist, claims in a new study, while you are what you eat, you may be eating a whole lot of things you don’t even know about. “Fruits and veggies, contrary to widespread public opinion, often do more harm than good when consumed in a diet unsupervised by health-care professionals; and I’m not just saying this because my wife’s a health care professional,” said Lawless. “Salad is more detrimental to your mental health than reading Dawkins“.

While eating veggies in small amounts is still considered a dietary plus, large helpings “fuel bacterial growth” and may lead to “late life memory loss,” said Lawless. “I don’t think it’s asking people a whole helluva lot to eat their veggies more responsibly, just as they eat their cheeses and sweetmeats,” added the bespeckled microbiologist.

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A recent survey of American university graduates has revealed some startling information. Odd features such as average temperature during the school year, and quality standards of cafeteria food were cited in contributing to the high success rates of students from several medical schools in finding post graduate employment.

How?

Students who had done their degrees at either the University of San Francisco, or the University of California-Irvine by and large have found post graduate employment within 2-3 months of graduation. Overwhelmingly, students questioned by media outlets complained of fluctuating hot and cold temperatures (common in the California region where typically days are warm but temperatures drop after bedtime). Additionally many male students blasted cafeteria food as “too spicy”.

What does this mean?

Apparently, the stress of Californian university life conditioned students there to work harder. Without even knowing it

Conversely, the students surveyed at the U of Chicago and U of Pittsburgh who had experienced constant freezing cold along with bland frozen microwave lunchables on a daily basis, tended to spend the first few months after graduating sleeping or consuming hot drinks.

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The first time my daughter Jenna took my blood pressure wasn’t such a big deal. And when Rick, our younger child dilated my wife’s pupils it was still pretty much smooth sailing. The two of them, always locked in competition over everything, are both doing online health care degrees, and its made for some interesting moments around the house of late.

But when Jenna asked me if she could practice doing injections on my right leg I can tell you I was something less than a supportive enthusiastic parent. For one thing, 2 summers ago I’d suffered a sports injury playing golf which still causes my right leg to suddenly snap and lock into straight rigid position. I wanted to support Jenna, but I was secretly afraid that if she missed the vein I’d be paralyzed.

Plus there was the looming specter of Rick and his oneupsmanship battle with Jenna. If I allowed my daughter to inject me, what might Rick want? A scraping of bone tissue? I couldn’t even think about it.

But when Sunday came along and as scheduled Jenna produced her student medical kit, I found I wasn’t so nervous after all. Like a pro she distracted me just as the needle went in by bringing up my idol, Tiger Woods. “Heey, how come Tiger Woods is called ‘Tiger’ anyway?”. “I..don’t..KNOW, Jenna!”, I replied, and the deed had been done.

Rick, however, was studying brain chemistry, I quickly learned, by popping into his room and sneaking a look at his postings on his FaceBook profile. I would need some time alone to think about how far I could go for Rick. Perhaps a parent’s job is also to impose limits on their children.

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If you want a quick way to to earn your health degree the net is the place. My sister works two jobs and has zero time, but she started looking for nursing degrees online and now she’s on her way to a new career!

It seems to me that this is a real lifesaver, as if not for her time spent searching online she’d be locked into that job at the sandwich shop. The hours there are grueling. And the boss asked her to the movies last week even though she told him she hates movies.

Because she is a naturally kind person I think she’s a cinch to get into nursing! Personally I couldn’t do it as I like to sleep in and nurses have wacky hours. In Pam’s case she’s always having trouble getting to sleep, so I told her why not stay up and help other sick people get better?

At first she was kinda mad at me. But now I think she’s gonna go for it. When I talked to her yesterday she said she was checking out degrees at the University of Phoenix and some place called Gonzago.

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