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Wake up HP - the piece is not about mental health! re: what the article is about, how about federal assistance for small businesses that will bring affordable healthy food into areas that need it? I mention this because we have a local co-op that has been trying to get off the ground for a while now - it would help me eat healthier as I can't afford to shop at "whole paycheck."
Want a small step to improve your mental health? Don't watch Fox. This is a proven remedy.
The title of the story that this is linked to does not mention mental health. Still, the advice given is all good.
It seems that our first ladies are usually very good role models. Thank goodness. I always got the impression that Laura would have made a better President than George, but I can't say that about Mrs. Cheney.
It's like they had several "men" of the house.
the 2010 elections will definitely improve my mental health.
This is about Huffington Post making news instead of reporting it. You word things in a way where you get a lot of disappointed readers. This is what today's news industry is all about.Shame shame on the news industry. You should be better than this.
It's hard to trust HuffPost when they make stupid mistakes like this. Mental health care is something that needs greater attention, but that's not what this article was about.
She's absolutely right about people changing their lifestyles in order to stay healthy, though. We eat too many processed foods and don't move enough.
She's absolutely right, and a great example for our country. The headline, though, is another example of sloppy writing here. The article is about general health, not mental health.
Your heading is misleading, and I was about to accuse the first lady of meddling in areas in which she has no training or expertise. If you want me to spell it out for you, you need to remove the word mental from your heading.
I like the example she sets. I'm proud of her as a first lady.
On that issue I agree wholeheartedly! She's the best first lady this country has had in quite some time!
Here is a couple more bigger steps:
(1) Remove all sociopaths from running the financial corporations of the United States by making corporate boards vulnerable to personal lawsuit by investors..
http://www.management-issues.com/2006/8/24/research/beware-the-corporate-psycho.asp
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/96/open_boss.html
http://www.hare.org/links/saturday.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/08/26/corporate.psychopaths/
(2) Get a reasonable and functioning system of community healthcare in place for 40 million Americans whose only plan now is:
(a) Don't get sick.
But if they do:
(b) Die quickly.
(3) Enforce already existing and create new fierce Wall Street regulations so the economy is not blown up every ten years so 16 million unemployed or underemployed Americans are now going broke with all of THAT worry including if they have any money for burial (see 2b).
(4) Don't send American youth to their deaths or to be maimed in endless PTSD wars for the last 50 years so the Military Industrial Beltway Think Tank Complex can make money.
Keep your husband eating right and exercising while he works on these things. I voted for him. I am giving him more time. But the clock is running.
I just happen to come here to read responses and my God, you're a Gem.
You are absolutely spot on!
+1
BTW: Can one infer that "2(b) or not 2(b)" is a question? :-D
She looks so pretty in this pic in her purple suit. I'm talking bout her face and hair. Not the suit necessarily.
Best. Hair. Ever!!
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First Posted: 10-13-09 03:48 PM | Updated: 10-13-09 04:44 PM