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Thoughts from Jim Perkins (Archive)
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New Years Resolutions Oz Style
Happy New Year. Now everyone should resolve for 2010 that they work to help others and take care of themselves along the way. Dr. Oz said it best this week with his lucky 13 things you can do (if you would like his 16, you can visit USA weekend).

1. Help Someone Else - This one I love. It is amazing when you help just one other person how it energizes you. It does not have to cost you money. I remember on May day I always brought flowers to the older lady down the street. You can do the same thing by just running a simple errand for the person down the street. You can also just check on them once a day to make sure that they are ok. It is amazing how out of town relatives would love a quick Email from you that their distant realative is ok.
2. Change Your Boundries - Evaluate your life and get out of the fish bowl. The Gold fish sees a bigger world beyond the bowl and can not do anything about it. You can make a change in your life that allows you to challenge your boundries. The world offers limitless possibilities. If you family finances look hopeless, change your attitude and find new opportunities. Just dwelling on limitations will never allow you to get out of your current situation.
3. Stop Rushing - Slow down your life and enjoy what is around you. I know I missed many opportunities because work was everything for me. It may be school and activities for you. Just slow down a little and take the stress out of your life.
4. Stop Trying Extreme Diets - Just because someone else lost weight does not mean that you will. I love the new campaign by Taco Bell. They are trying to find their Jared. Jared lost weight not by just going to Subway, but he walked 3 miles back and forth to Subway each day. That might have helped. Exercise and healthy eating is the key.
5. Don't Skip Meals - This is very difficult for me. I do not like breakfast. My morning coffee is all I eat most days until at earliest lunch. However, do what ever you can to not eat heavy between 7 pm and when you go to bed. It gives your body no time to use that intake.
6. Enjoy What You Eat - Don't be so hungy by the time that you eat that you do not enjoy each bite. Savor what you eat. It will slow down your meal time and let you appreciate it.
7. Take Vitamins that Make Sense - Dr. Oz takes 1,000 units of Vitamin D daily to minimize risk of heart disease, cancer, mutiple sclerosis and immune disorders. The alternative is exposure to hot sun. He also takes 400mg of Omega-3 fats daily to stimulate our brains. If you take them both at the same time, then take them with a tablespoon of lemon flavored cod liver oil before you brush your teeth.
8. Eat Well - 7 servings of Whole Grains, 5 servings of vegetables, 4 servings of fruits, 2 servings of low fat dairy, 1 serving of tree nuts such as almonds. Serving is the size of a deck of cards. Target your waist at 1/2 of your height.
9. Exercise Exercise Exercise - Walk at least 10,000 steps. Amish have an obesity rate of less than 10% because they do not depend on cars.
10. See Your Doctor - 40% of diabetics are walking around undiagnosed. If you wait, you lose because your ailment gets worse and affects other parts of your body.
11. Sleep Regularly - Some individuals need 6 hours, others 9. No one should be doing 3, then 5, then 9, then 3.
12. Brush and Floss Regularly - I see a long line at the local Denture place every morning at 7am. You can end up there too.
13. Kick Up Your Feet - At the end of the day, relax. Treat your feet to a bath of Epsom salts and hot water.

• Secrets for a happy and healthy life: Get a girlfriend who cooks well. Get a girlfriend who take care well. Get a girlfriend who looks well. And most of all, make sure that these three girls don't meet each other!
• Wife: What will I get if I keep cooking for you like this? Husband: Well, you will get my life insurance money very soon.
• 100 laughs a day is equal to 10 minutes of exercise! How can it can get any easier than that?
• I keep trying to lose weight, but it keeps finding me.
• It's not the minutes spent at the table that put on weight, it's the seconds.
• How can I go on a diet? The refrigerator is still full.
• I gave up desserts! (It was the worst twenty minutes of my life.)
• Dieting is wishful shrinking.
• DIET PILLS"I'm prescribing these pills for you," said the doctor to the overweight patient, who tipped the scales at about three hundred pounds. "I don't want you to swallow them. Just spill them on the floor twice a day and pick them up, one at a time...."
• Deciding to take up jogging, the man was astounded by the wide selection of jogging shoes available at the local sports shoe store. While trying on a basic pair of jogging shoe, he noticed a minor feature and asked the clerk: "What is this little pocket thing here on the side for?" And the clerk: "Oh, that's to carry spare change so you can call your wife to come pick you up when you've jogged too far."
• A school teacher asked a student, "John, will you please conjugate the verb 'to go' for the class?" The kid began, "I go... um... you go... ehmm... he goes..." "How about a little faster?" asks the teacher. And the kid, "Sure! I run, you run, she runs..."