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Show Elder Quest luncheon Sometimes look on The next Elder Quest luncheon will be held Wednesday, Dec 17, at 12:30 p.m.at Northampton Northamp-ton House 198 W. 300 North, American Fork. Cost of the dinner is $13. Corey Mendenhall, ProvO; High School Chamber Choir director, direc-tor, will lead his talented Four foul foods to avoid during the holidays Time off from work, out of your daily routine, coupled cou-pled with an endless buffet of holiday feasts and treats can leave people starting the new year unhealthy and unfit. But, it doesn't have to be that way. Dr. David Ostreicher, author of "Brush Your Teeth and Other Simple Ways to Stay Young and Healthy" from Wheatmark Publishing (www. brushy ourteeth-book.com), ourteeth-book.com), has a list of ways to keep people from looking like Santa after the holidays. His message is simple: Air and water are polluted. Diet is loaded with artificial ingredients and hormones. Americans are fat and do not exercise. Yet we are living longer, far longer, than our grandparents did. Why? This is the American Paradox. The answer is simple: Hygiene, from improved im-proved sewerage to personal per-sonal hygiene. How do we beat the paradox? There are simple and easy ways to stay young and healthy, focusing on the principals of health: good hygiene. That includes mental hygiene, hy-giene, sleep hygiene, physical physi-cal hygiene, brushing your teeth, and avoiding the "Foul Four" foods that hijack hi-jack your health. "The American diet is one of excesses," Ostreicher Ostreich-er said. "We eat too much, too many calories, too much fat, too much salt and too much sugar. And those elements make up the Foul Four dietary villains."D t Salt: "Salt raises your blood pressure and can lead to heart attacks and strokes," Ostreicher said. "It has also been linked to cancers of the stomach and esophagus. Throw out your salt shaker. You don't need to add any salt to your food. Salt is not the only spice. We should all make much better use of pepper or other spices. When cooking, leave out the salt, or cut the amount in half. After a period of time, your sensitivity to salt will change. Your taste buds will accommodate to the normal salt diet, and soon you will find you don't need it anymore. "D Sugar: Sugar is Ostre-icher's Ostre-icher's next target. He believes be-lieves we eat way too much We currently have openings for all age groups! give us a shot, let us be your HOME AWAY FROM HOME! Competitive Rates -Great Staff Fantastic Cook 'Large Fenced Backyard with Playground State Regulated 20082009 Baby Steps Grant Recipient FUN "Transportation Available . 1497 W 800 N. 801-491-6661 E-Mail Us At Mapieton 801-376-8097 babybaemsn.com singers in a Christmas Program. This group has been invited to perform in Carnegie Hall in the near future. Elder Quest is a lifelong life-long learning organization organiza-tion sponsored by UVU for seniors over 50. For more information call Tal Huber 756-0343. of it, and the wrong kinds of it. "Whether it's in the form of table sugar (from sugar cane or sugar beets), or high fructose corn syrup, syr-up, the average American eats about three pounds of sugar a week."DOstreicher said. Calories: "Those three pounds of sugar is equal to 3,312 empty calories per. week. No vitamins, minerals, miner-als, fiber - just 3,212 calories," calo-ries," he said. "That will convert to 4 pounds of fat per month. No wonder obesity in America is epidemic." epi-demic." Fat: The last of the Foul Four on Ostreicher's hit list is fat; "Fat is another endless supply of calories," he said. "USDA Dietary guidelines for AmericansD says we should limit total fat to 20 to 35 of our RDA for calories. Most, Americans get more than that. Fat, especially the "bad" fats (saturated and trans) are linked to obesity, heart attacks and cancer." One major fallacy to avoid this holiday season is the idea that any member of the Foul Four is somehow some-how made healthy because it's organic. "It seems intuitive that "organic" is healthier," Ostreicher Os-treicher said. "Given the choice, I would rather eat an organically grown tomato to-mato than one grown in a field with pesticides and artificial ar-tificial fertilizers. However, Howev-er, there is very little true scientific evidence to show that eating "non-organic" foods cause serious illness. There is a ton of evidence that shows that eating sugar, sug-ar, salt and high fathigh calorie diets cause all kinds of health problems and in-' crease risk for disease. At the end of the day, with all the choices we have with our diets today, clearly we can all agree that avoiding these Foul Four foods is a good start." BEST BODYSHOP PRACTICES FOR LESS! 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We may not sell as many $1000 train sets or $500 microscopes this year, but our weekend went well and our outlook appears cautiously optimistic. Optimism has not been a popular emotion this year as the news media has made "things are bad and getting worse" an overriding theme. Heading into the start of the Christmas season, the public pub-lic has been inundated with stories about just how awful things are. The stock market has collapsed, col-lapsed, the housing bubble has burst, unemployment has risen, ris-en, blood now rains from the sky and any second the killer bees will probably start another anoth-er invasioa We've watched classic brands collapse, others teeter on the brink of death and a lucky handful that got billions in government aid just to survive for a few months more. Bad news has been good news for the media or at least reporting on what's going go-ing wrong is an easier story to tell Realistically, though, amidst the dismal reports and the fearnongering, shouldn't someone be considering all the positive things occurring in our economy? It sounds silly to point out positive things during an economic eco-nomic downturn, sort of like commenting on the pretty fish as you drown at the bottom bot-tom of the ocean, but for many people the downturn represents an opportunity. Basically, the glass might be half empty, but the glass was filled with a pricey scotch in the first place. For example, though the stock market has suffered, gas prices haven fallen to levels well below last year's prices. High finance does not immediately impact most lie! Bumper Refinislif f Licensed Child Care &. Pre-School C. rtcd & Cpcrc Come on in, take a tour, people, but the cost of a gallon of gas has an immediate effect. ef-fect. I spend nearly $200 less a month filling up my car, which translates into more money in my pocket, whichlargely gets "invested" at lunch time at my local sushi place. Along with lower gas prices have come, huge sales at many stores and the ability to make the dollar go further if you're careful. Of course, many staples like milk and bread remain high, but lower gas prices will ultimately ulti-mately cause those items to fall or at least stabilize. Perhaps the strongest economic eco-nomic positive come from the area that caused this downturn down-turn in the first place - falling home prices. This story has always al-ways been reported as a huge negative, which it is if you're a seller, but if you're looking to buy, well, that's another story. Buyers with strong credit not only get to buy at a lower price, they can also secure financing fi-nancing at near historic lows. I paid 8 interest for my first mortgage and my parents paid double that, but now a loan can be had at under 6 . As far as recessions go, this one has more upside for more people than any similar downturn down-turn in American history. The news might be bad, but, in some ways, you just have to think the way most New Yorkers do when they see the headline "Family murdered in Upper West Side Apartment." "Hey, I wonder if the apartment apart-ment is rent controlled?' Out of tragedy and misery comes opportunity. It really comes down to you deciding which side you want to be oa Daniel B. Kline's wofk appears in over 100 papers weekly. When he is not writing writ-ing Kline serves as general manager of Time Machine Hobby New England's largest larg-est hobby and toy store, www. timemachinehobby. com. He can be reached at dannotastep.com or you can see his archive at db-kline.com. mm J nil IF I 1 W . .11 IE It 3 ,.i KV 1 t ?-"v. i . ..Str"?.' '' "First you shake and shake and shake the jar until your arm feels like it will fall off," exclaimed Fatima. 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