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A recent study indicates that you might add up to 14 years to your life by adopting four health habits: staying smoke-free, drinking moderately, eating more fruits and vegetables, and being physically active.
"These results may provide further support for the idea that even small differences in lifestyle may make a big difference to health in the population and encourage behavior change," noted the study's authors.
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Read more... [Not smoking, other healthy habits may add years to your life]
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By Nick Reding
Reviewed by Bill Kauffman
Published in the Wall Street Journal on June 9, 2009
Oelwein, Iowa, pronounced “Ol Wine,” is a small city of about 6,700 souls in northeast Iowa that Jay Leno reportedly once called “possibly the worst place in the world.” There are those who love it, though, and the effort of these faithful Oelweiners to revive their methamphetamine-dazed town is the subject of Nick Reding’s “Methland.”
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Read more... [Methland - The Heartland's Home Cooking]
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First Installment
Nobody likes to look for work, but everybody has to do it. Getting a job takes time, effort and patience. You look for opportunities, send out resumes and then you have to ace the interview. Whew! Sounds like it’s time consuming, takes commitment and dedication and just plain hard work. It is! So to help you get started, One Day at a Time (ODAT for short) is happy to provide you with our ODAT’s “Job Hunting Guide!” We begin today with the first two installments.
Due to the economy jobs may be scarce right now and money tight, but don’t get discouraged. In a healthy economy the rule of thumb is that for every $10,000 you make it will take you a month to find a good job. For example, if you wish to get a job making $60,000, presumably it will take you 6 months to find that job. So understand that in a down economy it make take you a bit longer to find your ideal job. Here are some suggestions to help you:
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Read more... [Looking for a job? Get started with ODAT's "Job Hunting Guide]
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By Steve Straessle
 My neighbor’s son died the other day. He was a beautiful kid only 21 years into this world. Police and ambulance sirens blared as they raced up our street in an effort to revive him, but the sirens served only as an alarm that a life had been extinguished much too soon.
The boy’s parents are constantly soggy-eyed now, and they busy themselves in the yard in the hope that physical exhaustion will somehow exorcise the pain in their souls.
The boy’s father was mowing the yard when I pulled up next to him. I was backing out of my driveway, and the car was filled to the brim with my five kids and their mother. I almost felt guilty as he peered in the back window and caught a glimpse of the activity and promise belted into the seats.
I told him how sorry I was for his loss. My wife quietly began sobbing when she saw my neighbor’s face. My neighbor said simply, “He was a good boy, he just had a problem.”
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Read more... [My neighbor's son died the other day]
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For more than 60 years, the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous have worked for many people with alcohol and other drug problems. Today, the therapeutic value of the steps extends far beyond the field of addiction.
Physicians, therapists and other health care professionals are finding that the steps can help people with other chronic illnesses (eg, cancer, heart disease, diabetes and mental illness) find hope and healing. There is increased recognition that a spiritual component, such as the Twelve Steps, is important in addressing mental and physical illness.
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Read more... [Twelve Steps can help manage various types of chronic illness]
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The straight dope for parents
By Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
Fireside, a division of Simon & Schuster
Reviewed by David Palmer
Near the end of Joseph Califano’s book, “How to raise a Drug Free Kid,” the author quotes a father who wrote, “Like so many parents, we didn’t heed the warning signs. We found an empty beer bottle in the backyard, we smelled pot on his clothes, we found an unidentifiable pill in the laundry room; we chalked these things up to normal teen behavior, but we were wrong.
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Read more... [How to Raise a Drug Free Kid]
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Late last year, I received a touching and gratifying letter from Cory W. at Tucker prison. It read, in part…
“Hello, my name is Cory. I am 27 years old, and I am incarcerated for possession of methamphetamine. I have been in prison for about two and a half years and nothing compares to the priceless inspiration I receive from reading your newspaper, One Day at a Time.
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Read more... [One answer to the overcrowded prisons problem]
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