Healthy Food Chart for Everyone

The FDA recently issued a warning about a number of tainted diet supplements. Many of the products claim to be "natural" or contain only "herbal" ingredients - but actually contain pharmaceutical ingredients.

An FDA analysis found that the undeclared active pharmaceutical ingredients in some of these products include sibutramine (a controlled substance), rimonabant (a drug not approved for marketing in the United States), phenytoin (an anti-seizure medication), and phenolphthalein (a solution used in chemical experiments and a suspected cancer causing agent). Some of the amounts of active pharmaceutical ingredients far exceeded the FDA-recommended levels, putting consumers' health at risk.

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Flickr: BlyzzNo guy likes talking about the health of their man parts. If it wasn't for the commercialization of prostate cancer screenings, most men wouldn't even know they have a prostate.

But, despite the awkwardness, let's talk sperm! Researchers have determined obese men have lower sperm counts and lower quality sperm than leaner men.

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My fifth and final MomLogic.com post was actually put up on 1.1.09 but here is the link because I forgot to post it that day. "Skip The Fad Diets in 2009" Enjoy!

I guess the holidays are now officially over. We celebrated New Year's then had a couple days off before celebrating Christmas again with Mike's side of the family but now everything is done and we have to go back to the usual routine of baby care, dog care and my own work squeezed in between. No more cookie swaps, no more presents and no more parties with yummy food - that's the sad part...no more running around like crazy, that's the good part because I am exhausted! I hope to get a good night of sleep and take it as easy as I can tomorrow so that I can recuperate. The only thing I really want to do is get the Christmas decorations put away so that we can get our very dry tree out to the curb for pick-up...it's starting to make me nervous being inside. I hope you had a great weekend as well, maybe an extended one if you were lucky! Happy New Year again and I am looking forward to seeing what 2009 brings!

Here is an abbreviated wrap-up of my food...
 

About 2 days ago a comment was left on a website that I was reading. The article on the website was talking about how to follow through on your New Year’s Resolutions and it was actually a pretty insightful piece of writing.

Although I don’t typically read other site’s comment sections I decided to read this articles…

To my surprise I found a few of the commenter’s disagreed with the writer. One particular commenter said that the need for guidance or looking to an expert in a particular field was unnecessary and over-rated.

I couldn’t believe the comment and whole heartedly disagree.

Personally, whenever I am looking to cut years off my learning curve when I begin studying a new subject, I go directly to someone I view as having mastered that topic. They have spent years working through trial and error and by studying their teachings I will probably save myself from having to go through many of the same errors they made. I also believe that I will learn at a faster rate and in less time since they have done a lot of the leg work in researching what should be studied.

So although I believe we must eventually do what we feel is best for us, we must first have a basis and background for that decision. If not, what are we really doing? Are we claiming to know more in a subject than someone who spent their life devoted to that topic?

I don’t think we always need to have all the answers and luckily there are many people out there we can call on when we need help… as long as we’re open and willing to learn.