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We have had much correspondence and many breakfasts around the topic of food, gaining weight, losing weight, looking beautiful, how to stay young, etc. – both at Bettina Homes and elsewhere.<\/p>\n
We have gathered up all of our notes and this is the result.<\/p>\n
Many breakfast discussions have centered around exercise, food choices, weight gain and\/or loss and what do these things have to do with looking and feeling fit.<\/p>\n
The consensus we have found is the best way to look young may have little to do with all that is discussed in the media and in lots of advertisements, but the biggy for looking young for many decades when all of your friends are clearly aging is to – 1) drink no alcohol and of course, no drugs of any kind, 2) eat organic foods and in moderation, 3) take a brisk walk each day to let the sunshine hit your body and the fresh air circulate all over, around and through you, 4) if you drink coffee and\/or tea, make it organic. \u00a0There are now several organic coffees on the market and there have always been organic herbs over which you can pour hot water for a great cup of tea.<\/p>\n
We have noticed that the obesity figures are sky rocketing and wonder if that has more to do with what weights are considered obese. \u00a0For example, for women it is getting ridiculous. \u00a0A size 8 is now considered a ‘plus’ size. \u00a0That is one way to drive the weight industry into making a zillion dollars. \u00a0And those companies selling exercise equipment. \u00a0If a woman’s size 8 is a “plus” size, can you imagine the money women are going to spend getting down below that so they won’t be considered ‘fat’ – or a plus size – or obese?<\/p>\n
What is very sad is how women look who are now within the range of ‘ looking good in your clothes’? \u00a0Most I have seen look as though they have just been through a very stringent course of chemotherapy, followed by radiation and have not yet recovered from the ravages of those treatments. \u00a0Women models have make-up on their eyes which makes them look sunken and sick. \u00a0A size 14 used to be considered normal and anyone wearing a size 14 looked pretty good. \u00a0Healthy, beautiful, with lots of energy. \u00a0I don’t understand how anyone can have energy – without some kind of ‘uppers’ when they eat a salad or less a day. \u00a0Where is all of this headed?<\/p>\n
All of this was brought to the forefront for us when we had breakfast with a model. \u00a0She was lovely. \u00a0She was there for the conversation and the breakfast seminar during which everything and anything is discussed. \u00a0She had black coffee and a piece of very hard bread which she took out of a wrapper in her pocket book. \u00a0We had fresh organic fruit – several kinds mixed together; a slice of organic bread with cheese on top and a sunny-side up egg on top of that with a side of beautifully cooked asparagus. \u00a0For dessert we had a New Orleans-style bread pudding with hard sauce without the rum. I don’t know how she was able to have her breakfast with us eating away at the above, but what we were eating didn’t seem to bother her. \u00a0I guess she has had lots of experience not eating while others enjoy a lavish meal.<\/p>\n
From breakfast she had a very stressful day planned. \u00a0I wondered how she was going to make it through such a strenuous day, especially since she had been exercising – doing her regular morning workout – for about an hour before she came to breakfast. \u00a0I asked several times what keeps her going given her schedule and her diet. \u00a0She kind of ignored me, explained she would have a small salad for lunch – without dressing of any kind, and a piece of chicken with a vegetable for dinner. \u00a0That is her normal kind of eating day.<\/p>\n
We wondered about the example this sets for young girls. \u00a0But we were corrected and told to wonder about the example this set for young girls and young boys since both now had role models who were skin and bones and nothing else.<\/p>\n
Thanks for the platform, Bettina people. \u00a0I have a blog, but you have so many more people visiting your blog that I think I will send you articles I have written from time to time. \u00a0Loved the house where we stayed. \u00a0It was super elegant and breakfast was beyond a five star hotel breakfast. \u00a0What we learned that morning was invaluable and would not have been available, except from the people around the table. \u00a0They were very special.<\/p>\n
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