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DASH and Mediterranean Diets: Healthy Living, My Weekly DASH Recipes
Business and Science

DASH and Mediterranean Diets: Healthy Living, My Weekly DASH Recipes

04/23/2025 Bruce Strom 0

What are the three magical cures for healthy living? The big three are: Diet, exercise, and sleep until you are refreshed. Many doctors say set the alarm for seven or eight hours of sleep, and if you wake up an hour or so early, that is okay. This requires personal discipline and mindfulness. Most people do not want to change their daily habits so they can adopt a regimen of healthy living, they want the doctor to prescribe them a magic pill to cure them. Plus, others would say having an active social life.
Take charge of your health! Ask your doctor not for magical pills, but how changing your habits can improve your health! It is true that magical pills can provide instant relief, and that medications are sometimes essential to recover your health by balancing your body chemistry. But lasting improvements in health are better achieved by changing your daily habits. Often, you need to be patient, you need to realize that an improved regimen of diet, exercise, and sleep can take six months or longer to dramatically improve your health. […]

Jimmy Carter, Raising Crops and Livestock, and Health and Hygiene, in Rural Georgia During the Depression
Civil Rights

Jimmy Carter, Raising Crops and Livestock, and Health and Hygiene, in Rural Georgia During the Depression

02/07/2025 Bruce Strom 0

Although both blacks and whites experienced health and hygiene challenges during the Depression, poor health was more prevalent among black laborers and sharecroppers. Jimmy Carter remembers: “The life expectancy of black men and women was less than fifty years.” “During most of the year, they ate only two meals a day, usually cornmeal, fatback, molasses, and perhaps sweet potatoes. The more industrious families also had small gardens that provided some seasonal corn, Irish potatoes, collards, turnips, and cabbage, with a few rows of peas and beans planted alongside the garden fence. The combination of constant and heavy work, inadequate diet, and excessive use of tobacco was devastating to the health of our poorer neighbors.” His mother encouraged her black neighbors to grow vegetables in their own gardens, and shared with them the vegetables from the Carter family garden. […]

Jimmy Carter's Youth and Navy Years: From Plowing With Mules to Nuclear Submarines
Civil Rights

Jimmy Carter’s Youth and Navy Years: From Plowing With Mules to Nuclear Submarines

12/31/2024 Bruce Strom 2

While Jimmy Carter was transitioning from a technologically demanding naval career working with nuclear submarines to move back to rural Georgia, where farms had yet to transition from mules and horses to tractors, rural Georgia was also experiencing the same racial transitions that the military was dealing with. The year after his retirement, the Supreme Court issued the Brown decision, mandating that public schools be desegregated with all deliberate speed. […]