Just as most of us were getting ‘fired up’ about the impending Sick Care legislation, I penned my last Breakthrough Newsletter/Blog. Some of your responses were amazing.
The following was submitted by none other than Mr. Steve Perillo- Perillo Tours CEO- Mr. Italy Jr. Aside from running Perillo Tours and being an accomplished classical composer/recording artist; Steve also hosts his own talk show.
And while not being an unabashed ‘health nut’ like myself, Steve eats and supplements wisely AND he works out regularly.
He writes the following in response to Russell’s True Health Care Bill:
HERE! HERE! Right on!
Imagine exercise and diet credits! . . . like a ‘good driver’ getting lower insurance rates.
50% of all kids born today will get juvenile diabetes?
Even if that’s a huge exaggeration, 5% of kids getting that would be absurd.
Sorry to say, if you let market forces go wild, with no oversight, this is what we get . . . 150 pound, ten year olds playing video games all day while eating Coco-Puffs, unable to go outside because they need their parents to drive them everywhere. Our ‘junk culture’ is killing our children!
Sorry we’re too stupid to oversee ourselves because now we need laws to force us to behave:
1)Restrict amount of sugar in products
2)No sugar at all in schools
3)Sidewalks and bike-lanes mandatory for all new suburban constructions
4)No school bussing if you live within 1 mile of school
5)Food stamps only good for certain food purchases
6)Stop farm subsidies (corn) that promote tons of cheap, hormone and antibiotic invested beef and poultry.
The corporations don’t care. Just the opposite. They’re incentivized to create customer addictions!
They have multi-million dollar labs that study how to turn consumers into those lab rats . . . pawing the ‘more cocaine button’ until they kill themselves.
And what’s addicting? Fat, salt and carbs. And for some reason those are the cheapest materials to put on the table! (See corn subsidies!)
McDonalds is currently the cheapest way to feed a family of 4 . . . $12! Fruits and vegetables cost way more than that to feed the same family.
We used to be a lean, mean country . . . No mas!
Steve
Like me, Steve has an objective advantage over our lawmakers in Washington. He’s not a lawyer who has been elected to public office. He’s not ‘beholding’ to any self-serving lobby groups.
Don’t shrug off this topic. Think it through and come up with YOUR Personal Wellness Plan. Remember- once your Body is weakened by all the drugs and junk food being pumped into it, YOUR Mental, Emotional and Spiritual Strength is sure to follow.
The so called ‘greatest country in the history of the world’, the country that has sacrificed many thousands of lives to keep our freedom, the land of the free and the home of the brave is SICK. The corrupt money gods are creating wealth for themselves but force-feeding us a steady diet of dead, nutrition-less foods just to fill our bellies.
The ENEMY is within and it ain’t just a bunch of crazed terrorists. In the same way We The People have fought for our Freedom, we must fight for our HEALTH!
As my friend David DeNotaris always says, “Make it a Great Day”...bye4now...
Your friend (iC),
Russell Jones
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Russell’s True Health Care Bill
Okay,okay,okay (say it really fast like Leo Getz in Lethal Weapon2) help me here. The government is taking over Health Care in the United States.
First of all, there never was Health Care in the United States only Sick Care. And Sick Care is needed and we need a lot of it. ‘Preventative medicine’ is just a buzzword for ‘testing to see if you are Sick yet’.
WE THE PEOPLE have brought this on ourselves through ignorance and laziness. My Mother taught me a long time ago that we have to be proactively in charge of our own health. The early ‘health food nuts’ and ‘fitness crazies’ were Right. But we all have to come to grips with the fact that none of us are getting out of here alive.
We have to realize a few things:
1- The majority of ‘foods’ on the shelf in our grocery stores are g-a-r-b-a-g-e. It’s legal but it shouldn’t be. Most food processing companies are driven by 1 thing and that is Profit (for themselves and you who hold stock). As has been pointed out many times before---- if whatever you are buying has Sugar in any of its forms, White Flour or Chemical Additives, you are setting yourself and your family up for sickness, disease and pre-mature death.
2- Most Doctors DO know their *ss from their elbow- and that’s a good thing. However, 99.9% of the doctors we come across Specialize in something other than nutrition. Yet many dispense nutritional opinions and most of us buy their opinions.
And the Nutritionists I’ve met are too concerned with counting Calories and the Fat content of foods that they miss the boat when it comes to Fresh, Wholesome Foods from a variety of Natural sources. And they do not have a handle on Natural Supplementation. Methinks they ‘compromise’ too much and need to raise the standards and expectations. Nutrition Experts need to get radical and scream out ‘warnings’ to our culture. Also, the food pyramid and its various versions have not worked.
3- Pharmaceutical Companies do not have a moral compass. The researchers might but Drug Companies are driven by 1 thing and that is Profit (for themselves and you who hold stock). They are the best and worst of what big business is all about. They have had a huge hand in crafting our Drug Culture. They have pushed their ‘miracle cures’ on the medical community and on WE THE PEOPLE to a degree that is almost unfathomable.
Some of the stuff works but most are nonsense- the side effects alone are embarrassing.
4- Insurance Companies do not have a moral compass. I believe in free enterprise but Insurance Companies are so unscrupulous they NEED regulation. Insurance Companies are driven by 1 thing and that is Profit (for themselves and you who hold stock).
5- Government has a real hard time acting objectively when it comes to Most issues. Partisan politics has our elected officials voting the Party line. Lobbyists influence all levels of government and are only interested in furthering the interests of those who Pay them.
Someone has proposed that whatever the government gives us in Health (Sick) Insurance, that all elected officials would have to use it as well.
6- Lawyers! They are so intertwined in all of the above that they can make a well person sick. And they would figure out a way that it would be ‘prejudicial and unjust’ to treat someone who abuses their health any differently than someone who makes the effort to take care of themselves.
So this is what I’m going to use to start Russell’s True Health Care Bill. I’m borrowing it from Arthur Dreschler as he wrote in the November 2009 Association of Oldetime Barbell & Strongmen Newsletter:
While there are many issues regarding the health of this nation’s citizens, and that of people throughout the world, and change is going on all around us, at least one thing remains true. Progressive resistance exercise is one of the greatest discoveries in human history. It has the ability to heal the sick, strengthen the weak, inspire the downtrodden and transform the body and soul. Its benefits are available to all, without exception. And when such training is combined with sound dietary practices and abstinence from debilitating practices, such as the use of alcohol and drugs, a recipe for a longer and a more vigorous life is created. NOTHING MORE IS NEEDED, BUT NOTHING LESS IS SUFFICIENT.
… Nothing would benefit the health of the nation more quickly and completely, or reduce our health care costs more surely, that the widespread adoption of regular (ideally progressive) exercise, a sound diet and the avoidance of dissipation. Given this we should all redouble our efforts to extol the virtues of exercise and other sound health practices, while at the same time ASSURING THAT WE ARE EACH LIVING EXAMPLES OF WHAT WE ESPOUSE.
I know I left out the rest of My Son- the Experiment :( & Cardio as well… next time?
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
As my friend David DeNotaris always says, “Make it a Great Day”...bye4now...
Your friend (iC),
Russell Jones
First of all, there never was Health Care in the United States only Sick Care. And Sick Care is needed and we need a lot of it. ‘Preventative medicine’ is just a buzzword for ‘testing to see if you are Sick yet’.
WE THE PEOPLE have brought this on ourselves through ignorance and laziness. My Mother taught me a long time ago that we have to be proactively in charge of our own health. The early ‘health food nuts’ and ‘fitness crazies’ were Right. But we all have to come to grips with the fact that none of us are getting out of here alive.
We have to realize a few things:
1- The majority of ‘foods’ on the shelf in our grocery stores are g-a-r-b-a-g-e. It’s legal but it shouldn’t be. Most food processing companies are driven by 1 thing and that is Profit (for themselves and you who hold stock). As has been pointed out many times before---- if whatever you are buying has Sugar in any of its forms, White Flour or Chemical Additives, you are setting yourself and your family up for sickness, disease and pre-mature death.
2- Most Doctors DO know their *ss from their elbow- and that’s a good thing. However, 99.9% of the doctors we come across Specialize in something other than nutrition. Yet many dispense nutritional opinions and most of us buy their opinions.
And the Nutritionists I’ve met are too concerned with counting Calories and the Fat content of foods that they miss the boat when it comes to Fresh, Wholesome Foods from a variety of Natural sources. And they do not have a handle on Natural Supplementation. Methinks they ‘compromise’ too much and need to raise the standards and expectations. Nutrition Experts need to get radical and scream out ‘warnings’ to our culture. Also, the food pyramid and its various versions have not worked.
3- Pharmaceutical Companies do not have a moral compass. The researchers might but Drug Companies are driven by 1 thing and that is Profit (for themselves and you who hold stock). They are the best and worst of what big business is all about. They have had a huge hand in crafting our Drug Culture. They have pushed their ‘miracle cures’ on the medical community and on WE THE PEOPLE to a degree that is almost unfathomable.
Some of the stuff works but most are nonsense- the side effects alone are embarrassing.
4- Insurance Companies do not have a moral compass. I believe in free enterprise but Insurance Companies are so unscrupulous they NEED regulation. Insurance Companies are driven by 1 thing and that is Profit (for themselves and you who hold stock).
5- Government has a real hard time acting objectively when it comes to Most issues. Partisan politics has our elected officials voting the Party line. Lobbyists influence all levels of government and are only interested in furthering the interests of those who Pay them.
Someone has proposed that whatever the government gives us in Health (Sick) Insurance, that all elected officials would have to use it as well.
6- Lawyers! They are so intertwined in all of the above that they can make a well person sick. And they would figure out a way that it would be ‘prejudicial and unjust’ to treat someone who abuses their health any differently than someone who makes the effort to take care of themselves.
So this is what I’m going to use to start Russell’s True Health Care Bill. I’m borrowing it from Arthur Dreschler as he wrote in the November 2009 Association of Oldetime Barbell & Strongmen Newsletter:
While there are many issues regarding the health of this nation’s citizens, and that of people throughout the world, and change is going on all around us, at least one thing remains true. Progressive resistance exercise is one of the greatest discoveries in human history. It has the ability to heal the sick, strengthen the weak, inspire the downtrodden and transform the body and soul. Its benefits are available to all, without exception. And when such training is combined with sound dietary practices and abstinence from debilitating practices, such as the use of alcohol and drugs, a recipe for a longer and a more vigorous life is created. NOTHING MORE IS NEEDED, BUT NOTHING LESS IS SUFFICIENT.
… Nothing would benefit the health of the nation more quickly and completely, or reduce our health care costs more surely, that the widespread adoption of regular (ideally progressive) exercise, a sound diet and the avoidance of dissipation. Given this we should all redouble our efforts to extol the virtues of exercise and other sound health practices, while at the same time ASSURING THAT WE ARE EACH LIVING EXAMPLES OF WHAT WE ESPOUSE.
I know I left out the rest of My Son- the Experiment :( & Cardio as well… next time?
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
As my friend David DeNotaris always says, “Make it a Great Day”...bye4now...
Your friend (iC),
Russell Jones
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