#971: Show- Getting Back to What’s Important

Show Topic: Getting Back to What’s Important

Co-Hosts:  Judy Gaman, Walter Gaman, Mark Anderson

Guest: Sean Holmes

 

Segment 1:

Today’s show is all about getting out of the house, out of the office, and connecting with nature.

• How has the internet changed our lives? Health? Relationships?
• Are we all becoming shut ins? From the house to the car, to the office, to the car, and back home.
• Things we need to do each day to get a dose of nature.
• Top 3 reasons nature is important to health and staying young

DOC SHOCK

You may want to stop buying those cold cuts and beef jerky, or at the very least pick up ones that don’t contain nitrates, the chemical often used to cure meats. A new study from Johns Hopkins shows that nitrates in cured meats is linked to symptoms of mania, like racing thoughts, hyperactive behavior, and an inability to sleep. And their 1000 test subjects contained people with bipolar and other disorders as well as those that were free of any sort of preexisting mental disorders. I’m not shocked because these same nitrates are often responsible for migraine headaches, something we have long known.  Read more!

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Segment 2:

Today’s focus is all about connecting with nature and getting out and about, not just you, but your whole family. Today’s guest Sean Holmes, coming up shortly.

Immortal minute

Sean Holmes,founder of Collegiate Soccer Prep-- works with college-bound kids to help them get recruited to play soccer in college www.collegiatesoccerprep.com

Former Drake University Head Men's Soccer Coach. Was head coach for 17 years. Currently head coach of high school soccer team, Olympic Development Program Coach and Club Soccer Coach.

 

Kids are too sheltered from Nature

• Our children are the most protected generation in history. We make it more difficult if not impossible to fail. Parents are more involved than they've ever been and rare is the occasion when kids wander freely to the wildness that abuts the suburbs and cities we mostly inhabit. Our efforts to protect our kids from harm may, in fact, be backfiring on us. 
• When we raise kids unaccustomed to autonomy, they avoid the perils of risk, failure and hurt feelings. 
• Our society and economy need their future citizens and workers to be prepared rather than protected from all forms of adversity.

Nature is not real to many

• Nature has become an abstract concept for many. We can Google it, we can have a pretty photo of it as a screen saver, but ultimately nothing replaces the real thing. 
• Gone are the days of wandering the neighborhood with a buddy or two on your bike, or creek walking, searching for critters or treasure. 
• Free time is being eroded by organized play. Youth sports are a nearly 2-billion-dollar industry and growing. traveling teams start earlier and earlier. //Unsupervised is often equated with neglected. Kids need to have the freedom to explore. The belief, too commonly, is that when kids are on their own outdoors, they are potentially in harm’s way. 
• Another factor in the decline or rather the lack of encouragement of outdoor free time, is the fact that it is free and therefore is difficult to commercialize or monetize. No economic interests benefit from kids wandering around the neighborhood so nobody pushes to encourage more of it. When youth sports grow, equipment is sold. When the arts are encouraged, instruments are sold, teachers are paid, though not always well.

 

Segment 3:

Kids are too sheltered from Nature

• Our children are the most protected generation in history. We make it more difficult if not impossible to fail. Parents are more involved than they've ever been and rare is the occasion when kids wander freely to the wildness that abuts the suburbs and cities we mostly inhabit. Our efforts to protect our kids from harm may, in fact, be backfiring on us. 
• When we raise kids unaccustomed to autonomy, they avoid the perils of risk, failure and hurt feelings. 
• Our society and economy need their future citizens and workers to be prepared rather than protected from all forms of adversity.

Nature is not real to many

• Nature has become an abstract concept for many. We can Google it, we can have a pretty photo of it as a screen saver, but ultimately nothing replaces the real thing. 
• Gone are the days of wandering the neighborhood with a buddy or two on your bike, or creek walking, searching for critters or treasure. 
• Free time is being eroded by organized play. Youth sports are a nearly 2-billion-dollar industry and growing. traveling teams start earlier and earlier. //Unsupervised is often equated with neglected. Kids need to have the freedom to explore. The belief, too commonly, is that when kids are on their own outdoors, they are potentially in harm’s way. 
• Another factor in the decline or rather the lack of encouragement of outdoor free time, is the fact that it is free and therefore is difficult to commercialize or monetize. No economic interests benefit from kids wandering around the neighborhood so nobody pushes to encourage more of it. When youth sports grow, equipment is sold. When the arts are encouraged, instruments are sold, teachers are paid, though not always well.

Segment 4:

 Medical Mania Trivia

1. T or F. Aging affects your ability to taste and smell (T. Medications and past illnesses both contribute to this)
2. At what age do migraine sufferers generally see this heath issue completely go away? (70. Only 10% of all women and 5% of men who were migraine sufferers still have issues after age 70)
3. Trick question. As you age, your BMI may change even if your weight doesn’t. Why? (Because your height goes down, roughly an inch by retirement age.)
4. Can you tan the palms of your hands? (No)
5. If you had to lose a finger, which one could you lose without losing most of your ability to reach, grab, and function? (According to hand surgeons, the index finger)

Open discussion

DEMENTIA DEFENDER

LAST WEEKS RIDDLE WAS: Your friend gives you five dollars to buy something that: you can eat, you can drink, you can plant, and you can feed the cow.  What do you chose to buy?

A: A watermelon.  You can eat it, drink it, plant the seeds, and feed the rinds to the cow.

This week’s riddle:

You are told to empty one bottle of milk and one bottle of water into a bowl.  The two can't mix and you need to be able to separate them again.  You are not allowed to add anything else to bowl to help divide the liquids.  How do you do this?

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