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Its that time again, when we decide what we’re going to install wordperfect x3 windows 7 parallels desktop 6 change about ourselves and our health habits, and by doing so, decide what install wordperfect x3 windows 7 parallels desktop 6 things we’re probably eventually going to install wordperfect x3 windows 7 parallels desktop 6 fail at and feel guilty about: these are also called New Year’s resolutions.

Having felt enough guilt in my life, though, I’m in favor of very simple, attainable goals. Baby steps toward better health. So here are install wordperfect x3 windows 7 parallels desktop 6 a few of my baby steps, you’re welcome to throw in your own.

1. Exercise: Most years I’m like the install wordperfect x3 windows 7 parallels desktop 6 little girl with the curl on her forehead in the install wordperfect x3 windows 7 parallels desktop 6 nursery rhyme: when I’m good I’m very good, when I’m not I’m horrid. I can’t tell you how many Januaries and early Februaries I’ve spent regularly attending the install wordperfect x3 windows 7 parallels desktop 6 gym, then fading away in March and April, active again in May, off again in the install wordperfect x3 windows 7 parallels desktop 6 summer, etc. This year it’s baby steps. I’m going to install wordperfect x3 windows 7 parallels desktop 6 do SOMETHING, ANYTHING active three days a week. Now, there are install wordperfect x3 windows 7 parallels desktop 6 many studies of exercise and clearly more is better. But even mild to install wordperfect x3 windows 7 parallels desktop 6 moderate exercise helps joints, circulation, brain function, and weight control. (In fact, a install wordperfect x3 windows 7 parallels desktop 6 recent study in the Archives of Internal Medicine showed that exercise can install wordperfect x3 windows 7 parallels desktop 6 even blunt the genes for obesity, http://archinte.highwire.org/cgi/content/abstract/168/16/1791. More on that in a later post) And, you have to start somewhere.
2. Stretching: I already do qigong exercises, but I’m talking about plain old stretching of the joints. There’s ample research showing that install wordperfect x3 windows 7 parallels desktop 6 regular stretching avoids injury, improves muscle strength, and lessens joint AND muscle pains. I’ve been install wordperfect x3 windows 7 parallels desktop 6 through a few stretching books, currently I like good old Stretching by Bob Anderson (actually, the updated version http://www.amazon.com/Stretching-20th-Anniversary-Revised-Anderson/dp/0936070226/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231127230&sr=8-1) as well as the books and DVDs by stretching guru Aaron Mattes www.stretchingusa.com.There’s something to be said for two-person stretches as well. I’m a basketball fan, and I’ll never forget the install wordperfect x3 windows 7 parallels desktop 6 great Portland Trail Blazers 0f 1976-77, who personified the “team” rather than install wordperfect x3 windows 7 parallels desktop 6 individual approach. Before every game, Bill Walton and Maurice Lucas would help each other stretch out. My wife already has install wordperfect x3 windows 7 parallels desktop 6 a stretching routine, but maybe I can bud in for a install wordperfect x3 windows 7 parallels desktop 6 bit. Also, I’ve had some professionally assisted stretching (recently by my friend Ben Benjamin www.BenBenjamin.com , who install wordperfect x3 windows 7 parallels desktop 6 has written books on stretching and massage), and it’s fantastic. So, my plan is stretching four days a week.
3. Vegetables. I’ve reviewed a install wordperfect x3 windows 7 parallels desktop 6 lot of diets over the years. In fact, there was a install wordperfect x3 windows 7 parallels desktop 6 book years ago, now out of print, that interviewed many prominent diet doctors and install wordperfect x3 windows 7 parallels desktop 6 nutritionists (Atkins, Barry Sears, Pritikin, etc) and compared their strategies for diets as they applied to (in this case) cancer. High protein, high carb, high fat, whatever the install wordperfect x3 windows 7 parallels desktop 6 diet was, none of them cut out vegetables. Even Atkins loved his vegetables, although he didn’t bring them into the diet for 2-3 weeks. Here’s why vegetables are universally important: they’re not fattening, they’re full of important nutrients from install wordperfect x3 windows 7 parallels desktop 6 antioxidants to phytochemicals to hormone balancers, they contain critical forms of fiber for install wordperfect x3 windows 7 parallels desktop 6 our digestion, and they are the closest thing to the natural foods of our ancestors that install wordperfect x3 windows 7 parallels desktop 6 we get. My current dietary recommendations include 6-8 helpings of fruits and install wordperfect x3 windows 7 parallels desktop 6 vegetables (I’m including fruits here, but at least 5 helpings need to install wordperfect x3 windows 7 parallels desktop 6 be vegetables). And, if I’m recommending it to others I need to do it.
4. Down time. We live in what install wordperfect x3 windows 7 parallels desktop 6 I call a 24 hour world. We can do just about anything we want day or install wordperfect x3 windows 7 parallels desktop 6 night. Gamble? Buy a pizza? Watch CSI reruns? Invest in the stock market? You bet, 24 hours a install wordperfect x3 windows 7 parallels desktop 6 day. Now, as one who has studied Chinese Medicine, I know that install wordperfect x3 windows 7 parallels desktop 6 all Yang and no Yin makes Jack (or, in this case, Glenn) a chronically exhausted, wired boy who isn’t able to install wordperfect x3 windows 7 parallels desktop 6 slow himself down when the time comes to rest. So (he says as he uses a install wordperfect x3 windows 7 parallels desktop 6 spare moment to hammer away at his laptop and to catch up on his blogging) I will strive to install wordperfect x3 windows 7 parallels desktop 6 take some time this year to relax, to take in a install wordperfect x3 windows 7 parallels desktop 6 little more of nature, to read for relaxation rather than install wordperfect x3 windows 7 parallels desktop 6 only for mental stimulation, and to try to offset a install wordperfect x3 windows 7 parallels desktop 6 lifetime of compulsive activity.
5. Listen: I had install wordperfect x3 windows 7 parallels desktop 6 a great conversation with friends the other night, about whether we have install wordperfect x3 windows 7 parallels desktop 6 taught our children proper listening skills. In fact, whether they can install wordperfect x3 windows 7 parallels desktop 6 be taught at all. My friend Betty contended that, for install wordperfect x3 windows 7 parallels desktop 6 any number of reasons (social anxiety, feeling of self-importance or insecurity, inability to focus, etc) we don’t listen to install wordperfect x3 windows 7 parallels desktop 6 one another enough in conversations. I like that as a install wordperfect x3 windows 7 parallels desktop 6 goal: to listen more. I think that in my work I spend a install wordperfect x3 windows 7 parallels desktop 6 fair amount of time and energy listening to patients. But, in my personal life, I’m not as conscious of it.

So there they are, 5 baby steps toward a install wordperfect x3 windows 7 parallels desktop 6 good 2009 for me. And, through the magic of the internet, it’s all out there for everyone to see: hold me to it.

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