Health-E-News Issue #8- Managing YOU

I wanted to pass along a quick New Year's wish for your best health and happiness in 2008. I hope you managed YOU well this past year. I also hope in this closing day of 2007 you find the time to take a moment for yourself and to reflect on the year that has passed. (Between running around trying to manage time to visit loved ones or find just the right gifts for friends and family over the past few weeks it is often easy to lose sight of the real meaning of the holidays.) I personally know that several subscribers of this newsletter lost family members in December and this can be an especially difficult time of year to reflect on the life of that special person or pet.
Like many of you, I found myself caught up in the December frenzy I just mentioned and in that same rush to get everything "wrapped up" before the end of the year. I was editing this December issue with the content I had promised but I'm going to put that information on hold for the January 08 issue (including the name of the ONLY winner of the Beat Joe Dieter contest from last month's issue).

What follows below may have already made it to your email inbox (I believe it even circulated this time last year as well). Anyway, a friend passed it along to me earlier this month but I just had the time to open it in the last day or so.
By the way, my gut initially told me something was odd, that the email credited George Carlin as the author. ( Anyone remember him reciting his X-rated words you can't say on TV stand up act...?)
See the end of the article because he apparently isn't the author according to the website Snopes. Anyway here it is- I found it relevant to include in this year end Health-E-News because of the observations mentioned to the state of how many of us currently uphold attitudes towards real health and wellness.

The Paradox Of Our Times

We have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, but less time; we have more degrees, but less sense; more knowledge, but less judgment; more experts, but more problems; more medicine, but less wellness.

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry too quickly, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too seldom, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We've learned how to make a living, but not a life; we've added years to life, not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbor.

We've conquered outer space, but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things. We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've split the atom, but not our prejudice.

We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information to produce more copies than ever, but have less communication.

These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion; tall men, and short character; steep profits, and shallow relationships.

These are the times of world peace, but domestic warfare; more leisure, but less fun; more kinds of food, but less nutrition.

These are days of two incomes, but more divorce; of fancier houses, but broken homes.

These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throw-away morality, one-night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer to quiet, to kill.

It is a time when there is much in the show window and nothing in the stockroom; a time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete.

References:
(Not by George Carlin- go to his web site if you really want his take!) http://www.georgecarlin.com/home/home.html
I feel better reading his comments after seeing the Snopes article for the true scoop and the reference to perhaps the real author http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/paradox.asp

I hope you have managed YOU well this year.

To your Best Health in 2008,

David

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