Win From Within

Have you seen the new T.V. commercial for Gatorade?  The sound bite is “Win From Within”.

When I saw the commercial, it triggered a memory of my grandmother.  Her favorite saying was “You are what you eat.”  When I was little, she applied this phrase when she was cooking, tending her garden or on the occasion when she scorned me for over indulging myself with foods she deemed unhealthy.

Of course, as a child, I perceived these constant reminders as harping and, after 60 years, I can still hear her admonitions.  Even today, each time I consider an indiscretion, I hear her voice asking me “Do you really think that’s a good idea?”

Did you have a Grandmother like mine?

I’m grateful for mine.  She didn’t care for white bread.  She would tell me:  “The whiter the bread, the shorter your life.” Even though we milked cows, she insisted we moderate eating cheese, butter and drinking milk to keep our lungs clear.  When I was a teenager, she attributed any complexion issues to “too much milk.”  She insisted that sugar would rot my teeth.   Kids, who were heavy, which was rare, are “eating too many sweets and drinking too much milk”, according to Grandmother.  Usually, she would finish this observation with “… that mother should know better!”

Grandmother spoke with a voice from the 1920’s.

She was versed in growing, selecting and preparing fresh food.  She was very careful to avoid accidents when working, a real stickler about sanitation and fluent in the ways of self-care, because Physicians were a long way away and expensive.  She practiced and taught me the virtues of healthy life style choices:  healthy diet, physical work and play, rest and sleep; that served her well into old age, and now me, for the past 50 years.

How Times Have Changed

Take out, fast food and microwaved manufactured food is today’s bill of fare.  Gyms and organized recreation are substituting physical work and play. Energy drinks wake people up in the morning and sleeping pills put them to sleep at night.  Physicians are readily accessible with insurance companies paying the bills.

Researchers are warning that “the 50 somethings” will suffer longer and die sooner than their parents – their children more so.

Don’t Worry, Be Happy

Perhaps the science fiction Novelists, who believe, “If we can send a man to the moon … .”,  have it right – or not.

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