Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Stay Healthy With Smoking

It is not easy to remove or stop smoking habits. However, the more difficult is how to remain healthy in conditions forced to smoke.

Berolahragalah or start a program / hobby with family / friends are not the smoker. Make this event regularly. Sports is not only important for who want to live healthy, but also for the smoker. Take time less than 30 minutes a day to give body to get adequate oxygen. Do not smoke during the exercise, as this will memupuskan all the benefits.

Do not smoke while drinking coffee. Although the trust can add enjoyment, the content of caffeine in coffee can increase the rate of CO2 in the lungs. Instead, select beverages that can be carried menetralisir toxicity of cigarettes by as fresh fruit juice or milk.

Replace cigarettes with food as a light dessert. Replace the habit of smoking during defecation by reading books, comics, newspapers are far more useful to increase knowledge and just as rileksasi. Try to think before light cigarettes, about how this feels more beautiful without a cigarette.

Reasons that are always raised cigarette can reduce the emergency, improve concentration, to give more sense of calm and more relaxing. Indeed, the positive effects that only last moment and then emerged that dependence will impact widely. Try searching for alternatives, such as listening to music through the earphone or chew gum.

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Christianists vs Warren

Gay people aren't the only ones upset by the choice of Rick Warren to deliver the inaugural invocation. Check out David Brody's email in-tray. I have to say this makes me more comfortable with the choice. Obama is trying to take us past the culture war to an actual dialogue. Obama is a liberal Christianist - and that has long been obvious. His timing could be better, of course. With the raw memory of Rick Warren's active push for Proposition 8, it's understandable that the pick is a little much for many. I get it. It's hard having worked for twenty years for gay inclusion and having supported Obama with so much energy only to watch someone like Rick Warren get the reward. There are, one might add, no openly gay people in the program. Sometimes it seems as if Obama is tone-deaf on the subject.

But this is also the point, no?

If we are going to endure as a single polity, we have to live and have a dialogue with those who oppose us. Rick Warren is not Pat Robertson. He can be engaged. He does good work in many areas. Better to have him in the dialogue than to return to the arid brutality of the culture war. And better for Obama to include Warren in his inaugural, while working to bring greater equality to gay couples and gay people, than to exclude him and preen in purity. We should judge Obama on whether he delivers the goods.

And one day, perhaps even Rick Warren will celebrate gay people's inclusion in America as well. But I won't get my hopes up. I know what he thnks of us, our relationships and our equality. We remain anathema.