I thought today we’d just do odds and ends and though I’m continuing the quotes on the UK we’ll try to keep our references down from the constant bombardment you are going to get in the next 6 weeks.

It’s all about what we eat right?…I mean I know that Cheese Cake’s Factory’s Tiramisu doesn’t make it on what to eat to keep healthy other things have been and now aren’t.

Take Soybean oil….I can remember when we were pushing soy as the grail of health…now reports (BMJ) are showing that eating trans fats (listed in packaged foods as “partially hydrogenated” oil and include Soybean oil and cottonseed as well) are 34% more likely to shorten your life.  What should you eat–remember that terrible saturated (as in animals) fats—yep now they’re good…..can these people get any more confusing…oh wait I’m sure they can.  So there’s still hope for the Tiramisu!?

And want to take off a few — pounds that is.  Well try eating (again the BMJ–Used to be British Medical Journal and I guess I just can’t completely get away from the topic.)  This one notes that while some diets that won’t let you eat fruit for the first few weeks because it raises the sugar levels and leads to fat storage.  However if you’re not on one of those you should try these (instead of those evil processed snacks you now eat):

An apple a day (well someone got something right)

Or a pear

or 1/2 cup blueberries

The study found that this helped maintain weight level and even a loss of a pound or two.

It was especially significant in prevent  age-related weight gain when made a habit over time.

“The Britons were led into a taste for those tempting luxuries: porticos and baths and fine dining, and unsuspecting, they called politeness, while in reality they were an aspect of their slavery.”  Tacitus, Roman historian, Agricola 21

This is a nest at Winter Park Village (rear–north side parking lot) an Osprey nest and mom’s home.

Be sure you get it right or you might be POLITICALLY INCORRECT Oh My!:  For instance don’t you dare call them EX’s  (Girlfriend, wife, husband and so on)—they’re insignificant other(s).

NOT AFFLICTED WITH or suffering from or any of those negative terms for some with an aliment…as those others (and many more like them, i.e. afflicted with) are offensive as they lead the TEMPORARILY ABLE BODIED (i.e. healthy isn’t good either) to look on or think of the person with pity.  Instead say a person WITH or HAS an aliment (I’m not sure aliment is the best but haven’t found any alternatives….so……please forgive my ineptness after all I am ah….mature, seasoned; senior, longer-living, chronologically gifted and experientially enhanced.  Oh and people with special needs works too.

And never-never-never use gender designated terms

instead:

Snow Person or as I prefer snow creation (yeah that white snowy thing that normally–unless you are a sexual dysfunctional (pervert) doesn’t have a lot of sexual landmarks (I made that landmark  one up myself—I’m not bad for a SENIOR) anyway as coal and carrots haven’t been given any gender that I’m aware of.

Remember you’re not:

POOR you’re economically exploited or economically marginalized—I like low income, takes up less space…there’s also differently disadvantaged.

PREGNATE you’re parasitically oppressed—now that offends me.

PROMISCUOUS–but rather sexually active—I think the first sounds less trampish.

You weren’t FIRED you were DECRUITED

He’s not a SERIAL KILLER but a person with difficult-to-meet needs.

It’s not your MAIDEN NAME—rather it’s your birth name.

(Thanks to Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook/Beard & Cerf for the ideas)

“Grain, cattle, gold, silver and iron…are exported from the island,  as are hides, slaves and dogs that are naturally suited for hunting.”  Strabo, an ancient historian recorded exports from Britain in Geographia IV 2

Florida has an abundance of Black history here are some place to try on the central west coast:

CLEARWATER

PINELLAS COUNTY AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY MUSEUM

1101 N. Marshall St.

In former Curtis Elementary School, museum and research center for African American Culture and Heritage

LARGO

HERITAGE VILLAGE

21-acres of living history museum and village with 28 historic structures including Union Academy (From Tarpon Spring–one of first “Negro” schools in Pinellas Co.), Sulphur Springs Depot (1924 wood frame RR depot with standard separate facilities for black and white).  Museum has archives and library with information on local African American history.

ST. PETERSBURG

JOHNNIE RUTH CLARK CENTER AT THE HISTORIC MERCY HOSPITAL CAMPUS

1344 22nd St. South

1923 hospital is the city’s oldest surviving, Directed by Dr. James Ponder, the city’s first African American physician (1926) and was the prime care facility for the African American Community from 1923 – 1966.  Public gallery features early contributions by African American physicians and health workers to St. Petersburg.

“After the Roman invasion, Britons even took on Roman names.  These were easier to use in the sounds and structures of the Latin language but also showed that the Britons had adopted Roman ways and considered themselves part of the Roman world.

Gillian Hovell