SHUT YOUR CELL PHONE
Contributed by frederick [ http://frederick.qondio.com/ ]

Alas, alas, well kiss my ------nose! The state senate has voted to almost make you close ---your cell phone while you’re driving.

Why can’t the elected state officials get it right?

You go to the Registry of Motor Vehicles and take your driving test to obtain your driver’s license. The state policeman who is riding with you
will give you a failing grade if you break the law while taking your test. Knowing this, you keep both hands on the steering wheel, obey the speed
limit and give proper turning signals. You also don’t eat, drink or smoke, if you want to get your license!!!!!

Now, from this moment on, you can drive with one hand on the steering wheel, drive over the speed limit and turn without signaling because you
are talking into a cell phone held in one hand, steering with the other. Also, the state policeman isn’t riding with you.

One state senator commented on a TV interview that he didn’t want to make people spend $100 for a ‘hands-free’ devise because we are in ‘hard
times’. If you can afford a cell phone, a car and gas, you can afford a ‘hands-free’ devise ---- or don’t answer the phone.

Also, $100 is a lot less money than your cost for killing someone while you’re dialing a number on your cell phone.

What is this state senator thinking?

So they pass a law that allows ‘hand-held’ cell phones, but you can’t text while driving. What do you call dialing your friend’s number while
driving?

The new law also prohibits teenagers from using any cell phones while driving. Hopefully, they will also ban the use of game pods while driving.

One has to wonder why it’s taken so long and cost so many lives before we get a ‘common sense’ law.

You can bet that you will see a driver talking on a ‘hand-held’ cell phone, smoking a cigarette and a large coffee sitting in the vehicle
console drink holder, while they change lanes at 70 miles per hour on the freeway. I hope that they don’t forget to take a bite of the donut before
the coffee gets cold.

Stupid, half donkey, Law!!!

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YE OLD SODIUM
Contributed by frederick [ http://frederick.qondio.com/ ]

Put that salt shaker down!!!!

You’ve probably been in a restaurant and observed the people at a nearby table. Their waitress delivers their dinners, bids them “bon appetite”
and before these folks pick up their forks, they grab the salt shaker and douse their food with salt.

What makes these people think that their food needs additional salt? Guess what, their food doesn’t need additional salt, this is just a bad habit.

Do we need Sodium, (SALT)?

YES, sodium is essential, if you want your body to function properly.

Sodium helps to maintain the right balance of fluids in our bodies.

Would you believe that sodium helps to transmit nerve impulses?

Sodium also influences the contraction and relaxation of muscles.

Our kidneys will regulate the amount of sodium that is kept in our bodies. The kidneys will conserve sodium when our sodium levels are low. Should you
have a high level of sodium the kidneys will excrete the excess amount in urine.

Now, here is a possible problem with too much sodium.

If your kidneys can’t get rid of enough sodium, the excess sodium will start to accumulate in your blood. We know that sodium holds water, so now
your blood volume will increase. This increase in your blood volume will make your heart work harder, which increases the pressure on your arteries.
This can lead to high blood pressure, which puts you in danger of cardiovascular and kidney diseases.

Do you want either of these conditions to influence the rest of your life?

Let’s see what we can do to help ourselves and our families.

An adult should have between 1500 and 2400 milligrams (mg) of sodium a day. Naturally, the closer your stay to the 1500 mg, the better for your blood
pressure.

Most medical reports indicate that we get about 12% of our sodium from natural sources. For example, drinking one cup of low-fat milk will give
you about 107 mg of sodium.

Our greatest danger and the biggest culprit is the 77% of our sodium intake from prepared and processed foods.

Let’s take a look at some of these BAD FOODS!!!

Bob Evans Special Recipe Macaroni and Cheese: A one cup serving will give you 1220 mg of sodium and 330 calories.

Marie Callender’s Meat Lasagna: A one cup serving will give you 960 mg of sodium and 260 calories.

Chef Boyardee Mini Ravioli: They profess a whole serving of vegetables in every bowl. The label also reads that there are no preservatives and that
Chef Boyardee is a wholesome, nutritious meal. A one cup serving will give you 950 mg of sodium and 250 calories. This begs the question, is one cup a
wholesome meal?

Progresso Traditional Hearty Chicken and Rotini Soup: They feature 100 calories per serving, but they don’t highlight the 690 mg of sodium in a
one cup serving.

Progresso High Fiber Hearty Vegetable and Noodles Soup: They feature 28% daily value of fiber and 90 calories. Once again, the one cup serving has
690 mg of sodium.

Bush’s Original Baked Beans Seasoned with Bacon and Brown Sugar: They feature 98% Fat Free and High Fiber. Now, we have a half-cup serving that
will give you 140 calories and 550 mg of sodium. Is a half-cup serving a wholesome meal?

Now, you can’t have Beans without hot dogs!

Kayem Old Tyme Frankfurters with Natural Casings and made with Premium cuts of Beef and Pork. The serving size is one hot dog which will give you 160
calories and 490 mg of sodium. Soooo, Saturday night’s dinner of Hot Dogs and Beans will give you 600 calories and 2080 mg of sodium, if you have one
cup of beans and 2 hot dogs. Are you full yet?

How about a nice Tuna Salad Sandwich on Arnold’s Multi Grain Sandwich Thins? There are 100 calories and 230mg of sodium in the two pieces of
bread. The tuna fish will give you 60 calories and 140 mg of sodium. We need a little mayonnaise mixed into the tuna fish, so that’s 100 calories
and 80mg of sodium. That brings the total calories to 260 and the total sodium to 450mg for our tuna salad sandwich.

Let’s have some spaghetti and pasta sauce. The Ragu Pasta Sauce has 70 calories and 480mg of sodium in one-half cup of sauce. The Prince Healthy
Harvest Whole Wheat Blend Pasta has 210 calories and “NO” sodium. However, you’ll probably add salt to the water when you cook the pasta.
One teaspoon of salt is 2,325mg of sodium.

Maybe we just need a little snack while we’re watching TV.

Let’s have some Reduced Fat Cheez-it Baked Snack Crackers. They have 40% less Fat than Regular Cheez-it Crackers. You will get 130 calories and
320mg of sodium, if you eat 29 crackers.

Maybe we want something a little sweet. How about a Kellogg’s Special K Fruit Crisps Strawberry Bar? This is 100 calories and 80mg of sodium for
the two bar package.

You may not think that an Oat-Bran Bagel would taste salty. Taste alone may not reveal the sodium content. That bagel has 451mg of sodium.

We need to eat more fruits and vegetables, while consuming less process foods, including canned soups, luncheon meats, bacon and sausage to name a
few.

The food processing companies are going to appeal to our senses. We are the one who need to take control of our sodium intake by reading the labels.
Remember, this is where we get 77% of our sodium intake.

Most people increase their salt intake by 6% while using the salt shaker. Don’t pick it up!!

Lastly, we need to reduce our salt intake to improve the strain on our heart. We can learn to enjoy the taste of properly prepared food and not
the need to taste salt. We can buy whole foods and cook them, rather than serving processed foods.

Try it!!! You just might live longer!!!

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