New week horray

Another week has passed, with another 52K under my belt. The next LSD run is 19K, this will be the turning point in the Marathon Training as the mileage now gets heavier and works its way to 32K for a Sunday run. Yesterday I took a rest day and did a step class at Nubody’s the gym I joined. Man talk about sweat, I can run 16K without a major problems. Step up and down for 40 minutes and see the sweat fly.

I still have not really played with Carbs on the road, But will have to look at some fuel this week as we approach the longer runs. Gel’s are what I am going to try, Can’t wait! Yeah Right.

This weekend, I will be taking part of a Canadian Government road show on how I think the Government can improve the health care system for diabetics. Sounds great, so I started doing some research on various programs, many provinces have there own “plans”. This surprised me as I did not realize that Provinces such as SK had a plan of there own. ON is working on their’s, not sure on other provinces, these plans seem to try to mention Diabetes and how bad it is to be uncontrolled. That’s the good part.

I think the bad part is the provinces and feds suck at getting the message where it belongs, to the schools and homes. Mind you a lot of schools have started realizing that they need to offer healthier choices in there Cafeteria’s. Many schools have dropped the traditional coke and Pepsi machines for water and juice. The French Fries are gone except maybe on Friday. This is a good start.

But more is needed; we need to make prevention and control affordable. Go to the supermarket, If you are on a budget 2L of No name type pop 79 cents vs. 2.89$ for 2 liters of milk. So families by pop instead of milk, even breads you can by a generic white bread loaf for 1.30$ but a good multigrain flax bread 2.20$ almost 2x the cost.

Fresh veggies, while I don’t begrudge a farmer making a living, but let’s face it in Canada in January there is no local produce. All is imported from the US or South America. It’s a wonder we eat veggies at all here in Canada.

Eating healthy is a commitment not only to eating right, but also means you will spend more on groceries, is it worth it? In my opinion it would be healthier eating means far less risks later on in life with diabetes, heart diseases and cancers.

The government needs to get radical in there approach to healthcare. You can’t say Smoking is bad for you and the effect on the healthcare system is draining, when you turn around and tax the heck out of cigarettes for millions of dollars in tax revenue. On the one had the government does not want you to smoke because its unhealthy, but on the other side is that it generates millions of dollars in tax revenue so we can’t out right ban it.

Maybe the government the government needs to intervene at the school level. Screening kids for diabetes and other diseases. If a kid is overweight, maybe the public health folks need to go into the home, not so much as a punishment but to help educate the parents that a huge plate of spaghetti is not a healthy meal on its on. I was appalled the other day when I was shopping and this 12 year old (+/-) was huge, he weighted 350lbs if not more. His mother in the cart had nothing but JUNK. Does she not realize that her picky eating kid is slowly being killed by her? She needs to be educated about how to feed her son. At 12 years old it’s her responsibility to ensure his health. That is the crux isn’t it the government can’t be held responsible for an unhealthy public. Should they even try?

Good question in my opinion.

Harry