WW's Musings

Well, I guess that really depends on the age and vanity level....LOL...And, I have been told I don't look my age, but there will be a time that I will really, really not want to look it.  I am 39 now (really, I'll show you my ID) and still look ok.  I'm sure, at least in part, because of my weight.  Fat stretches the skin, so no wrinkles...LOL.

I read this article that tells how sugar makes one look older and I wanted to share it.  I honestly believe that sugar does horrible things to the body, but I have not always felt that.  And, before you ask, yes, I have read all of Dr Atkins books and have tried the Low-Carb way of life.  That is how I have recently lost 30 pounds.  It's also how I lost 100 pounds a few years ago.  But, it's not just the weight loss.  It's the difference in the way I feel when I get rid of the sugar in my diet.

 Ask yourself this.  Do I have trouble sleeping?  Do I feel tired all of the time, even when I do sleep?  Do I eat processed, prepared foods most of the time?  How much sugar do i really eat through the day?  I can tell you, you eat much more sugar than you realize, unless you're a strict label reader.

 Anyway, check out the article and let me hear what you think :)

 

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's battle against fake and substandard drugs has taken an unusual twist with the discovery of a Web site masquerading as that of the country's food and drug watchdog.

The site was apparently set up to promote a diabetes medication, according to a report on government-run Web site china.com.

While looking very similar to the State Food and Drug Administration's real site (www.sda.gov.cn), it has a totally different address -- and was still functioning Thursday.

"This site is definitely not for real," an official at the regulator was quoted as saying. "These lawbreakers have got some balls!"

The fake site (http://www.tnb163.cn/sdfs/index.htm) can be accessed from another purporting to be from a research institute promoting the miracle benefits of a new diabetes drug. But not only is that site a fake, the drug is too, the report added.

The link takes users to a false page on the watchdog's site which lists all the country's officially approved drugs, to give the impression that the drug is recognized.

Calls to the regulator were not answered.

China is in the midst of a crackdown on makers of shoddy drugs following a series of scandals at home and abroad which have tainted the country's reputation.

As I sit here and watch the news, it amazes me how truly rampant the stupidity in our Government has become.  The story at the moment is about the folding ceremony for the flag at a military funeral.  I would bet that the person who actually complained has never been in the military, and has probably never lost someone in the military.  Therefore, where is their right to complain?  If you don't have to be party to it, who are you to complain about it?

 I want to know why our Government has lost it's common sense.  Think about it, this country was founded on certain basic principals.  But, it was also founded on the idea that God would be part of it.  I honestly believe that they have taken the "separation of Church and State" to a place never intended by the founders of this once great nation.  I doubt they ever had the idea that people would try to push God out.

 To me, the "separation of Church and State" means that the government can not tell a church what they can preach from the pulpit.  They can not go into a church offering sanctuary and drag a criminal out.  I do not believe anyone ever had the idea that it should mean to remove prayer from schools and government buildings, remove God's name from our pledge of allegience, remove scripture from our courthouses and certainly not remove God from our flag folding ceremony.  Use a little common sense, if that's what they had intended when they wrote that, don't you think it would have been that way from the beginning???