Re: --Common Sense is what you need--

Yes, I agree that not many people are using common sense these days.

I am nowhere near optimally healthy, in my opinion. But, I am getting better at using common sense, and I think more people should experiment, within reason, and make up their own minds on what works for them. I think it is a gradual learning process, and if you do it well then you will have plenty of time to keep learning.

It makes me laugh when I am at the playground with my children and we have some fruit and I offer it to a friend's child and my friend refuses it because she does't want to "spoil his appetite" to go home and eat burgers and fries for dinner (or maybe even chicken nuggets!). Then she complains that her son doesn't like to eat fruit!? Or we are at a social event and we buy the kids a hot dog and chips (yes, I do give in because all the other kids are getting it and I don't want my kids to feel left out; I am weak and they don't eat it anyway). My kids take one bite and then leave the rest to be thrown away, while my friend makes her son eat all of his, because he said he wanted it and she had to pay a whole $2 for the meal (they are not in need of money by any means, but I guess that is $2 less that she can spend on having her nails done)! Then she doesn't let him run around too much because he has asthma. But, of course, I am a bad mother because I don't give my children cow's milk - how will my kids ever survive without that calcium?; you know that's the only place calcium comes from, right?)

I now have a policy of not taking seriously any health advice from anyone who isn't at least as healthy as I am. I have to say that, even though I don't consider myself to be very healthy, I don't think I've ever had a doctor that looked to be even close in that category; I don't even bother to go to the doctor anymore. I think I am unhealthy, but just last year I was talked down-to and accused of being an unwed teenage mother by my mother's neighbor when I was taking a walk with my children; I was 32 at the time! What does that say about the average American? They are looking so old at such a young age nowadays (what do they look like on the inside, then?)! I will be curious what the average lifespan of my children's generation will be - or even my generation, for that matter.

If you do not want or do not believe someone's advice, then just don't take it. People should learn to think for themselves and question everything.

Tina. Tweet