Professor Elam

  I have been reading Suzann's Somers latest book at left. 

While you may know Suzanne as tthe star of a popular tv show, okay back in the 1970s, she is these days an accomplished author, this is her 18th book most of them on health, nutrition, and attaining hormonal balance. Hre are a few snippets.

Doritos are 40 % chemicals

Diet sodas contain aspertame which breaks down into formaldehyde and formic acid which can break down DNA. Dramatic increases in cancer are linked to diet soda consumption.

Avoid omega 6 in corn, safflower, canola, peanut and soybean oil, use oilive oil instead

Exercise, get plenty of sleep, drink water without fluoride

Get tested to ascertain your hormone levels which start dropping when you are in your thirties

Bottom Line I see lots of students doing all the wrong things, and frankly,shuffling  around the building.  We get comments like, I just went blank on the exam, I am exhausted, I cannot remember, no wonder, fueled by diet soda and chemical laden chips, the brain does not function properly.

Physical exercise is not a required class here but perhaps it should be

Jettison all the soft drink machines, Oprah featured an elementary school prinicipal that did that in her school and improved test scores, dramatically, why don't we do that.

Eliminate junk food like chips and sugar laced candy bars. there are 9-12 teaspoons of sugar in one coke, yuck!  elevating your sugar level brings on anxiety and an inability to concentrate.

I gave up iced tea years ago, you would be surprised to notice just how much caffeine you ingest once you drop iced tea.

Here are a few ideas under Eat Great Lose Weight  Most of her site is simply about selling a book but here is the foreward to one book that contains some of the ideas she is promoting.

I am in no way connected with Suzanne nor receive anything, I am however increasingly concerned about what seems the alarming deterioration of healthy lifestyle among students. This is in fact refelctive of the dark public mood. Exercise is a bull market phenomenon, sloth is representative of  bear markets.   Just a few years ago San Antonio 'won' a national ranking as one of the two most overweight cities in America, not  good…..