Healthy Living-2021
COVID has taken most of the society attention in 2020. However, quite a few friends, relatives are ill or killed, not due to COVID, but cancer, and other degenerate diseases.
A dear friend of us who went with us to Canadian Rocky, in 2002, the year I retired from Kimberly-Clark and joined the UW-Green Bay chemistry faculty passed away in November due to dementia. My sister-in-law is gravely ill due to metastasized pancreatic cancer. She cannot ingest any food including the liquid protein drink. A neighbor of us who moved to California is currently treating his metastasized prostate cancer. According to his wife’s FB post, the cancer has already invaded his brain and he needs brain surgery. Another friend is stricken by ALS who is witnessing losing muscle strength, start with the legs, then the arms.
Prevention is the key, and healthy eating is probably the most important thing a person can do to prevent such dreadful degenerate disease. Yet, it is so difficult to do the healthy eating or other life style changes when people surrounding us are still quite ignorant about the diet and other life-style choices.
None of my family members, including spouse, kids and grandkids are eating healthy. A week ago, we had a face-time with my son and his family at New York City. What’s for lunch? “Sausage, pizza, and soda” was the answer. During the summer, we had a hike at the Mt. Reiner with my other son’s family living in Michigan. After the hike, the family had ice cream treat. After that, they order a dinner that included a soda for my granddaughter. I took a look of the label on the soda; the bottle of soda contains 39 g of sugar in the drink. When I try to chide in for disapproval, my son was not pleased; nor is my wife.
The point I want to make is that one individual is very hard to stick to the healthy living life style when the person who is surrounded by group of the individuals who are ignorant about food and other life style choice.
The purpose of this blog post is to create a community that we all can help each other to choose healthy life style so that we don’t have to suffer the dreadful degenerate diseases in the future.
