You Are What You Eat

By simply observing the habits of people, one can generally gain a better understanding of who they are. It can be the observation of anything really, whether it’s someone’s driving habits, the way they dress, or even the things they do to entertain themselves. Once a person understands how to observe people from an objectively observational stance, he or she will have learned to see through the persona that everyone intentionally creates in order to more effectively maneuver through the Peril maze that we call life. Fortunately, it is not hard to spot these cues, and the key ingredient is an honest assessment of one’s own self.

Have you ever noticed that people who have a limited diet seem to have a similarly limited worldview? Show me a person who only eats chicken wings and cheeseburgers, and I will show you someone who has a, “only go with what I know,” mentality. You might find someone like this on a date at a nice restaurant, by the fireside, having a candle light dinner featuring chicken tenders and French fries. Now, don’t get me wrong. Chicken tenders and French fries are great, but that is exactly my point. Once it has been established that something is great, why not search for something else that may be just as great or even better?

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Kwesi Low

Hip-Hop Needs Health Insurance??? #WhereIsTheLove

Hip Hop isn’t dead but it’s sick as hell. CONTINUE READING

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DJWillieShakes

FAST FOOD + MASS MARKETING + LITTLE KIDS = CHILDHOOD OBESITY?

OK, so “fast food + mass marketing + little kids = childhood obesity?” Monet Parham thinks so.

Monet Parham is the Sacramento mother of two that grew upset and claimed that McDonalds is enticing her children to eat their unhealthy food. “My children really want the toys that are in those meals,” she contends, adding the meals often get cold while her kids — ages 6 and 2 — play with the toys instead of eating.” While her claim, to me, seems a little limited and lacking for a law suit — the Center for Science and Public Interest does not.

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Christina Sanders

Unhappy Meals

I can remember growing up in a McDonalds world and thinking that if I did good on my report card, got all smiley faces on my conduct chart and refrained from getting on my grandmas nerves while grocery shopping that I would get a Happy Meal! Yes, a HAPPY MEAL! There was nothing like being a kindergartner and getting a Happy Meal. My favorite toy had to be the “Pretty Princess Barbie Doll”. It was a solid plastic doll, stood about five inches tall with a thin strip of synthetic blond hair, painted on facial makeup and a seemingly perfect painted smile. That was the life! I don’t remember much about the food — just that I preferred the plain burger with fries as long as it had a toy (even if it was the same toy, which was most often the case). I also remember that if my grandmother bought it I was going to eat it; “waste not, want not”, she would often times tell me.

My memory does not serve me as to how many other places had these types of kid targeted meals — but Mickey D’s (the street name sometimes used to refer to McDonald’s), was my childhood treat of choice. Heck, everybody my age was happy to eat at the place with the “golden arch”.

New research, news stories and an ominous amount of cases of childhood obesity in now being linked to places like McDonalds with a focus on their marketing practices – leaving many thinking that our children’s meals may not be so, “happy”.

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Christina Sanders

Can Being Homeless Cause Mental Health Issues?

You’re damn right it can!

Imagine being outside around this time of year in the cold with nowhere else to lay your head but on a bench or on the cold concrete in below freezing weather. Using a cardboard box for a pillow and old worn sweaters for covers. Relying on the warm breath from your mouth to keep you warm through the night. No family to call on when you’re in need. Feeling like nobody cares if you eat, or if you’ve eaten throughout the day. The only way you’re able to bathe is when you submit yourself to a homeless shelter. Depending on shelters to feed you twice a day. Being without for so long that your self-esteem is at its all-time lowest, and that’s mainly why you don’t have confidence to find a job. Having to go to sleep with nowhere to go and worse than that having to wake up with that issue on your mind.

Now wouldn’t this drive you crazy?

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Oscar