If You Plan On Drinking, Do These Critical Things Before You Leave The House – Wine-Spirits
If You Plan On Drinking, Do These Critical Things Before You Leave The House
Buy a BreathalyzerA Breathalyzer is a portable hand-held device in which you
blow, that measures your blood alcohol level. Many good
breathalyzers can be purchased on-line. Buy a good one. In
general, they are priced based on their accuracy - the more
expensive the unit, the more accurate the reading. For
about $100 you can find a quality unit that is approved by
the Department of Transportation. Do your research, buy
one, and put it in your car.This is a critical first step in your protection against
getting a DUI. It could be the difference between going to
jail and going home to sleep in your own bed.Think about it: A $100 investment to avoid $10,000 in
expenses and all of the time and hassles related to a DUI?
Talk about a great return on an investment. Stop reading
right now, go to the Internet, and purchase your
Breathalyzer. It is that important.After you receive it, make sure you put it in your car. It
does no good at home in a drawer. As a matter of fact, you
should buy one for every car you own and keep it in there.Search Your Vehicle for any Incriminating ItemsRemember those empty beer cans that you threw in the back
of your truck during your last fishing trip? How about that
flask that you keep in your glove box, or in your golf bag
in the trunk? Any remnants of marijuana in your ashtray?
Any concealed firearms or knives? Now is a good time to go
to your vehicle and get rid of any items that could be
incriminating if you are stopped. When a cop pulls you
over, he is trying to build a case against you. One of the
ways he builds such as case is by simply looking inside your
car for any evidence that you've been drinking. Don't help
him build his case against you.What do you think your chances are of avoiding arrest if a
cop walks up to your vehicle and sees several empty beer
cans in the back of your truck; then sees a flask fall out
of the glove box when you try and retrieve your
registration; and shines his flashlight on what appears to
be remnants of a marijuana cigarette in your ashtray? If
you haven't guessed already, the answer is that you are
probably going to jail just as soon as he can get his
handcuffs on you.Go clean out your vehicle now. Once again, don't keep
reading. Go to you car and do it now. You'll thank me
later.Make Sure All Of Your Headlights, Taillights, And Signals
WorkStudies show that DUIs often result from a traffic stop for
another reason. In other words, cops will often stop
someone for a broken taillight or turn signal, then smell
alcohol on the driver and end up arresting him for a DUI.
Why give cops that advantage? Take the time before you go
out and double-check your brake lights, turn signals,
taillights, even your license plate light, and anything else
that may attract unwanted attention. This entire process
may take a couple of minutes maximum. But the payoff? - not
getting a DUI - priceless!Put A Tape Recorder In Your CarBuy a small hand-held tape recorder and keep it in your car.
Should you ever get stopped after drinking, this could be a
very valuable piece of evidence. This is your record of the
events that occurred. Sure, cops often record sound and
video during their stops. However, it is not unheard of for
those records to turn up edited at those precise moments
that favor the citizen.In addition, if you have a record of a cop making a mistake,
your case could be thrown out. For example, imagine if a
cop was caught on tape violating law or procedure. Your
case would likely be dismissed or charges dropped. How
valuable then does that make your tape recorder? That's
right - priceless!Warning: be sure and check the laws in your state regarding
recording another person with or without their knowledge.
In general, you can record anyone, as long as they know they
are being recorded. You don't have to announce it to them.
Simply put the recorder in plain view and turn it on. Go
buy a recorder now, for each of your cars.Make Sure You Have Driver's Rights Cards in All CarsIn my book, I provide a listing of your rights that you will
use, should you ever be stopped for a DUI investigation.
It's critical that you have these in all of your cars.
You can put them with your registration and proof of
insurance documents. When you are stopped, and an
investigation begins, hand the cop this card.Use A Designated DriverA clich
7 Part Plan To Beating Childhood Obesity – Weight-Loss
7 Part Plan To Beating Childhood Obesity
Everyone from politicians to parents is talking about fighting the war against childhood flab. It is odd that in a relatively wealthy countries such as the US and Australia improving children's health, weight and fitness should be a problem but it appears to be a sticking point with many.Childhood obesity in a developed country like Australia and the United States is essentially a lifestyle issue. Children are overweight because they eat inappropriate amounts and types of food and they don't exercise enough. To put it simply many children are stacking on the weight because calorie intake is higher than calories burned.Children's lifestyles are generally a reflection of those who raise them so parents need to figure heavily in any strategies put forward to improve the health and wellbeing of the next generation.The trouble is many parents have grown accustomed to outsourcing those hard to deal with issues such as sexuality and drug education to schools and other agencies. Children' health and well-being is an issue that parents should take prime responsibility for. Parents can beat childhood obesity rather than leave it up to schools to fix or politicians to meddle with.Here is a simple, fool-proof lifestyle plan that parents can adopt to ensure their children grow up healthy and fit rather than overweight and unhealthy:1. Limit the amount of children's television, computer and electronic games usage to a maximum of two hours a day. Very little physical exertion is needed to watch TV or use other electronic equipment so for the sake of fitness their use of these needs to be limited. Send children outside, suggest they walk or ride to a friend's house or even suggest they have a friend or four over to play. One third of Australian children would prefer to play computer games than play outside so parents may have to be assertive and, at times, over-zealous but so be it.2. Children walk or ride a bike to school each day. Recent Roy Morgan research revealed that 60 per cent of Australian 6 ? 13 year olds would like to walk to school but only 30 per cent actually do. Most children would get their required minimum two hours of exercise a week by walking or riding their bikes to school. This may mean that parents may have to walk to school with younger children or ensure they are adequately supervised. Bike riding is not safe for every child but more bike tracks in the vicinity of schools would be a great start.3. Keep unhealthy food out of the trolley and include more fruit. This may be stating the bleeding obvious but as keepers of the family purse parents have the main stake in what food goes in and what stays out of the shopping trolley. It seems that parents are on the right track as more Australian children eat fruit after school than sweet biscuits but even so the number of fruit eaters can do with a boost. Only 43 per cent of Australian children eat fruit after school so more fruit could be a good place to start.4. Serve healthy meals at the table on a regular basis. The humble ritual that sees adults and children who are related to each other breaking bread together on a daily or at least regular basis has a lot going for it. Far from being a refuelling stop mealtime is an opportunity for everyone to catch up and to share good healthy, well-prepared food. True, busyness of life get in the way of this healthy ritual but it is about getting our priorities right.5. Parents play with their children or join them in a physical activity. The family that plays together stays thin together could well be the motto of our times. It should be easy for adults to sell their children on the virtues of playing physical games outside as play comes before work in most children's dictionaries. Fathers tend to be the kings of play but work and other lifestyle factors can get in the way.6. Encourage children to be involved in at least one organised physical activity each week. Some parents may need to be insistent but 88 per cent of Australian children say they enjoy sport so getting children motivated for physical activity shouldn't be hard. There is no shortage of options for children these days as there are activities and sports that cater of a diverse range of interests, abilities and body types.7. Parents model a healthy lifestyle. Do as I do not as I say is the idea here. It is little use parents telling their kids to go out and play as they tuck into their second wine or they slump into the couch. Modelling is the most important tool in the armoury if we want children to develop sustained healthy eating and exercise habits. For the record, a healthy lifestyle is one where people talk to each other (ideal for emotional well-being), one where food and alcohol intake occurs in moderation and physical activity is a natural part of the day.This plan has a great deal going for it. It is cost-free, easy to use and places the responsibility where it lay ? with parents. It also has the added bonus of promoting healthy relationships as if they follow this plan parents and kids should spend more time together which can't be a bad thing.For further ideas to help you raise happy children and resilient teenagers visit www.parentingideas.com.au . While you are there subscribe to Happy Kids newsletter and receive a free report - Seven ways to beat sibling rivalry.Michael Grose is Australia's leading parenting educator. He is the author of six books and gives over 100 presentations a year and appears regularly on television, radio and in print.For further ideas to help you raise happy children and resilient teenagers visit http://www.parentingideas.com.au. While you are there subscribe to Happy Kids newsletter and receive a free report Seven ways to beat sibling rivalry.
Whats Missing from Your Nutritional Plan?
Whats Missing from Your Nutritional Plan?
IS FAITH - NOT VITAMIN C
WHAT'S MISSING FROM YOUR NUTRITIONAL PLAN?Being a nutritionist in private practice for 12 years, I'm not suggesting to neglect the thirteen vitamins and seventeen minerals essential to the human body. I have made a career training over ten thousand patients the techniques of proper nutrition to manage their weight and health. The secret to managing your weight lies in three changes in eating behavior. To control your hormonal response to food, you must eat the right food, in the proper portion and at least four times a day. This will control your blood sugar levels and your insulin response to what you eat. The challenge for some is not learning what to eat and why, but being able to do what they have learned. The question is why? The answer, the condition of our faith.The bible's definition of faith is found in Hebrews 11:1 . "Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see". I always take my clients through both parts of this. Are you sure that you want to be at your ideal weight? Are you certain that you will reach your goal? I don't have many clients who hope for something bad. I meet many though, who lack the faith to make it happen. Hope then is a weak sister to faith. Most of my ministering is not spent on hope, it's spent on building faith.To build faith, I direct my patients to the truth found in Mark 11:22, when Jesus commanded us to "have faith in God." This lays the foundation that our faith is not based on our abilities, but in God's. The rest of this scripture instructs us in what faith can do, where we store it, how we activate it and to assure faith's outcome.To start with Jesus said in Mark 11:23 "I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, go throw yourself into the sea and does not doubt with his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him." So what can faith do? It can move mountains. So many patients I meet make managing their weight the mountain in their life and can't move it. This scripture teaches the only thing that can keep faith from working is unbelief or doubt. Doubt is an enemy that steals what the Lord intends for us to receive.So where is faith stored? In are hearts, not in our minds. Faith in what we see or how we feel is head faith, which operates in our abilities. It operates on natural principles, which are constantly changing. Faith that comes from what you see has no real power. Heart faith operates in the spirit, when you take hold of God's word in your spirit and believe you will bring it to pass in the natural. Faith that operates in the heart or spirit takes the unseen realm and causes it to happen in the natural. God's word teaches in 2 Corinthians 4:18 "so we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen". A common problem in managing weight is continually weighing your self to see if your nutritional plan is working. This is building faith in what you see, instead of what you believe. In the middle of a seminar I was conducting, a woman said, "the results I have will keep me faithful to my eating habits. A woman in the back of the audience then said, "oh that will never work". The whole audience turned around dumbfounded with her response. She expounded by saying "I know many who received great results and did not stay faithful". Faithfulness is a fruit of the spirit, it manifests with a change in heart, not in size.So how do we activate faith? When we speak it with our mouth's. Our spoken words are what set our faith in motion. Our words have a prophetic power. We speak things into existence. It is governed by a spiritual law that is just as real as the natural law of gravity. That is the law of sowing and reaping. Galatians 6:7 says, "do not be deceived. God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows." I teach my clients to take control over their words. One time when I was counseling a woman, The Lord stopped me and said "it's not what's going into her mouth that causes her problem, it's what's coming out of her mouth". Our word's are seeds that when planted grow into something good or something bad.So what is faith's assurance? It will allow us to receive, whatever we are willing to believe for. The only condition to unlocking all the promises in God's word is that we must believe. If I'm willing to trust God and believe all, He has promised in His Word, I can enjoy good health. Isaiah 55:11 promises, "so is My Word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it". Though heaven and earth may pass away, the word from our Heavenly Father will never pass away.Now that we know our faith is in God and what faith can do, where do we get it? Romans 10:19 tell us "faith comes from hearing the message and the message is heard through the word of Christ". Joshua 1:8 instructs us, "do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do every thing written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful." So for faith to increase it must get exercised. As a former Mr. Connecticut bodybuilding champion, my clients are surprised in my response, when they ask me what exercise must they use to lose weight and keep the weight off? I point to a sign in my office that says, "I exercise my FAITH, I walk with the Lord." Faith must get exercised. James 1:22 says, "do not merely listen to the word and so deceive yourself. Do what it says". Anytime a client says they are going to try to lose weight, I know they are setting themselves up for failure. As with faith, managing your weight is not something you try, it's someone you become.The Lord has blessed me with many prophetic words, that have changed the course of my life. To understand my heart in what is shared next I will reveal two. The first prophecy, the Lord woke me in the middle of the night and said "prepare my people, so that I don't need to repair my people". The Lord is saying teach My people.Obesity is reaching epidemic levels in America and is now the second leading cause of preventable deaths. The medical community used to see obesity as simply the product of poor nutrition, or a lack of will power. Now they are beginning to define obesity as a disease that poses a dire threat to our public health. This has not escaped the Christian community. As a child of God we are instructed in Romans 12:2 "do not conform to the patterns of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind". As Christians we must rise up and break off the deception of the enemy, that this is acceptable to Our Lord. The Lord's heart for us is well expressed by Apostle Paul, when he was inspired by the Holy Spirit to write in 1 Corinthians 6:19 - 20 "do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought with a price, therefore honor God with your body".In the second prophecy the Lord said. "My children, now is a time of preparation, soon you will enter into a land I have promised you. I am burning up in you all those things that are not of Me. Do not return to places I have set you free from. As I draw you near to Me the Path of righteousness narrows. Remember these times I have set you free".In closing, I encourage all that are struggling with obesity or weight related health issues that true change is only found in the presence of God through faith. As we trust Our Savior, He will bring purity to our hearts, clarity to our minds and obedience in our flesh. As we welcome His discipline, He will produce in us the righteousness and peace our hearts desire. As we surrender our weaknesses, God fills us with, His strength and a brave and courageous spirit that knows no retreat or defeat.
Copyright 2004 by Charles RemingtonGod bless,
Charles Remington
Nutritionist
Healing Minister
charlie@thefatlosscoach.com
www.thefatlosscoach.com* All scriptures from New International Version of BibleCharlie is the author of a nutritional software program that has sold more than 100,000 units since 1995. He starred in a nationally broadcast television infomercial that in 1997 was recognized by the Jordan Whitney report as one of the twenty five-popular infomerical's in the U.S.A. Mr. Remington's expertise and passion have been well demonstrated on several National Television talk shows, as well as regional news broadcasts. He has been the featured guest delivering his message that foods not the problem, it's the solution over national and regional radio talk shows. Known to his clients as THE FAT LOSS COACH, he has been recognized in publications, radio and television as an expert in nutrition. Charlie has conducted more than 200 seminars in the corporate, municipal and educational arena's. He has been the key note speaker at numerous trade shows and men and women's league functions.