Comments on: Your Take: What Stresses You The Most?

By: john

john — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:12:00 +0000

definetly money im supposed to pay 850 a month for auto insurance

By: Jill

Jill — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:33:25 +0000

Definitely my job. No question. Mostly not liking my job…

By: Carla

Carla — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:27:52 +0000

Shoot! Someone should have told me I could have prevented MS!

By: dilbert69

dilbert69 — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:26:20 +0000

It doesn’t matter what you call it. People need drugs, surgery, and doctor visits. No matter what you do, no one lives forever, and no one remains healthy up to the moment they drop dead.

By: Damon Day

Damon Day — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:33:29 +0000

Without a doubt it would be my kids. I have a 3 year old and a 7 month old boy. I never knew what worry was until I had them.

By: Yana

Yana — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:08:35 +0000

You are changing the language. People need sick care when they need it. I do practice what you are calling health care, and in fact, that is the best insurance to have. Or I’d like to think so. I’d like to live even longer than my 88-year-old smoking, drinking, junk food eating friend. Nobody needs the box-builders idea of health insurance, nor do they need to pay the CEOs of the companies. They need sick care from competent providers, with no parasitic middlemen stealing their entitlements.

By: Loy

Loy — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:59:41 +0000

Think outside the box built for you by others.
Health care is not what others do to you, not a provider (insurance, doctor, nurse, hospital, clinic, treatment, drugs, etc.) All that stuff is sick care.
Health care is what you do to yourself: what you eat, your exercise & your rest. Eating the standard American diet is a guarantee you will get sick & need insurance coverage for the treatments, drugs, surgery, hospitalization, therapies & all the rest on that merry-go-round.
Get off & get moving to the parcourse or gym, then to the produce market to pick up whole, fresh food, bring it home, & prepare it yourself. Don’t pick up packaged, ready to eat stuff, snax, fast food, restaurant meals, etc.
Health care is an investment of time, effort, energy & smarts in yourself, not an investment of money (premiums & fees) in a provider for “coverage”. Get to work!

By: Yana

Yana — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:54:18 +0000

This is excellent general advice, but is not enough for those who need specific medical care desperately and quickly. People who have the time should absolutely take on this sensible eating, to prevent future need of medical care and to heal those things that have not progressed to the point of needing medical care.

By: Loy

Loy — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:48:19 +0000

Think outside the box built for you by others.

It could help to change the focus from not enough money for healthcare for the severely ill, to helping them get well, which is cheaper. It puts the patient in control & takes control away from those who profit from “healthcare”.
In general, you are what you eat. Providing whole (unprocessed) fresh (not cooked) food gives us the raw materials the body needs to work the twin miracles of maintenance & healing. Obviously, some very healthy foods need cooking, such as dried beans, lentils & peas, fresh potatoes & yams, rhubarb, beets, bulb onions, garlic, chard, rutabaga, cauliflower, peppers, bok choy, brussels sprouts, eggplant, brown rice, ginger, etc. But many others do not: banana, orange, apple, stone fruit (peach, apricot, nectarine, cherry,) pomegranate, grapes, grapefruit, lemon, pineapple, cilantro, parsley, basil, sprouts of all kinds, carrots, celery, radish, broccoli spears, cabbage, coconut, mango, guava, lychee, nuts & seeds of all kinds, tamarind, pears, avocado, tomato, lettuce, cucumber, corn, prunes, raisins, & spices.
It’s equally important to avoid the processed grains wheat (white flour) sugar, added processed fats & oils, polished (white) rice, grits, cream of wheat, pan cakes & waffles, boxed cereals of puffs & flakes, cake, cookies, muffins, candy & pastries of all kinds made from white flour & sugar with added fat. Every ounce of processed food denies the body the raw materials it needs, contributing to malnutrition which contributes to degenerative diseases: diabetes, cancer, kidney failure, Alzheimers, Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis, anemia, CAD, heart disease, stroke, glaucoma, hearing loss, & others.

By: John DeFlumeri Jr

John DeFlumeri Jr — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:57:33 +0000

Worrying that there will be an expensive health emergency in the family.

By: Marcie

Marcie — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:30:17 +0000

Working too much stresses me out. Doesn’t give me time to wind down, relax and take in what’s really important in life.

By: Ron

Ron — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:01:43 +0000

You’re right Kevin; it is a different kind of worry – a worry that Americans put on the backburner until it’s too late – sad but reality. I hope folks do keep it in the forefront of their thoughts when sitting inside the elections booth or when writing to their representatives in DC. Lives, our freedoms, and the liberties that give us the right to be worried about the stressors in this poll could all be in jeopardy. I’m retired Air Force – I guess I see things a little different when it comes to preserving what we have.

By: Kevin@OutOfYourRut

Kevin@OutOfYourRut — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:53:57 +0000

Ron, you’re raising a valid point, but I think we tend to worry most about situations we can do something about, which are the situations for which we’re directly responsible. Then the stress builds with which course to take, the variables, and unexpected outcomes.

With world affairs, there really isn’t much we can do as individuals, so it tends to be a different kind of worry, and maybe not as accute.

In bad economy’s, we tend to focus on backyard or pocketbook issues. I’m not saying it’s right or wrong, it’s just the way we process things.

If we’re all tied up in knots over world affairs at a time when we’re facing uemployment, it may be more than we can reasonably handle. Just my opinion…

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 09:32:19 +0000

I would have to say all of those mentioned are stresses in my life. No matter how much money we tend to make, money always seems to be a stress in everybody’s life.

By: kenyantykoon

kenyantykoon — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 09:20:34 +0000

money issues- but this is a problem that i am solving because i am soon going to be obscenely rich and i will have no worries at all