Letters to the Editor

The link between nutrition and disease
A huge thank you to Dr. Ralph Armstrong and Dr. Paul Percival
for taking time out of their busy schedule to help us all learn
more about the connection between nutrition and disease at our YMCA
Health Seekers Workshops.
Dr. Armstrong gave us lots of insight into our portion sizes and
how things have changed over the years: bigger, but certainly not
better, at least for our health.
The standard large size cup is now our small and the standard
plate was 9 inches and is now 12 inches. And we feel that we have
to fill it up. Super-sizing has definitely led to the obesity rate
in this county.
Dr. Percival talked about
”
Carbohydrates, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
”
with whole grains, nuts, fruits, veggies being the good,
processed food the bad and sugar the ugly. There is sugar is almost
all processed food, just check it out for yourself. Take the grams
of sugar listed on the label and divide it by four to get how many
teaspoons are in what you are eating or drinking. You will be
shocked and will realize why diabetes is becoming so widespread,
especially in our children.
These YMCA workshops are intended to help share information with
those that are
”
Seeking a Healthy Lifestyle and a Healthy Community
”
and are held the first Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. at the
YMCA. The workshops have been well received and some of the
comments have been:
”
More people need to see this,
”
”
Great program,
”
”
Very informative,
”
”
Keep these workshops going,
”
and
”
Love the talk.
”
We have had speakers sharing about: The Farmers Market; hiking
and biking in San Benito County; beauty, vitality and health with
whole food nutrition; and
”
Healthy Nutrition for a Healthy You.
”
Our next workshop,
”
Keeping Balanced with Chiropractic Care,
”
will be Tuesday, Jan. 5 at 7 p.m. at the YMCA. It will feature
guest speakers, Dr. Sam Breger, Dr. John Red Eagle Valenzuela and
Dr. Alfred Valenzuela.
Next month, Feb. 2 will be the presentation,
”
Real Food, Inexpensive and Healthy
”
and we will be sharing recipes that our families enjoy. Thanks
to all of you who have enjoyed these workshops and we are looking
forward to supporting more of you in your healthy lifestyle.
Cheryl Ritter Wenzlik
YMCA Volunteer
The link between nutrition and disease

A huge thank you to Dr. Ralph Armstrong and Dr. Paul Percival for taking time out of their busy schedule to help us all learn more about the connection between nutrition and disease at our YMCA Health Seekers Workshops.

Dr. Armstrong gave us lots of insight into our portion sizes and how things have changed over the years: bigger, but certainly not better, at least for our health.

The standard large size cup is now our small and the standard plate was 9 inches and is now 12 inches. And we feel that we have to fill it up. Super-sizing has definitely led to the obesity rate in this county.

Dr. Percival talked about “Carbohydrates, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly” with whole grains, nuts, fruits, veggies being the good, processed food the bad and sugar the ugly. There is sugar is almost all processed food, just check it out for yourself. Take the grams of sugar listed on the label and divide it by four to get how many teaspoons are in what you are eating or drinking. You will be shocked and will realize why diabetes is becoming so widespread, especially in our children.

These YMCA workshops are intended to help share information with those that are “Seeking a Healthy Lifestyle and a Healthy Community” and are held the first Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. at the YMCA. The workshops have been well received and some of the comments have been: “More people need to see this,” “Great program,” “Very informative,” “Keep these workshops going,” and “Love the talk.”

We have had speakers sharing about: The Farmers Market; hiking and biking in San Benito County; beauty, vitality and health with whole food nutrition; and “Healthy Nutrition for a Healthy You.”

Our next workshop, “Keeping Balanced with Chiropractic Care,” will be Tuesday, Jan. 5 at 7 p.m. at the YMCA. It will feature guest speakers, Dr. Sam Breger, Dr. John Red Eagle Valenzuela and Dr. Alfred Valenzuela.

Next month, Feb. 2 will be the presentation, “Real Food, Inexpensive and Healthy” and we will be sharing recipes that our families enjoy. Thanks to all of you who have enjoyed these workshops and we are looking forward to supporting more of you in your healthy lifestyle.

Cheryl Ritter Wenzlik

YMCA Volunteer

More local housing is not the answer

I was disheartened by yet another letter regarding that we need construction to build houses to stimulate the economy in San Benito County. Nothing could be further from the truth. 

We already have too many houses, and building more houses will require us to build more roads, build more schools, hire more police, more government, all at a deficit as they will give breaks to construction and then force the taxpayer to fork over the money to pay for all the services the development is supposed to pay for.

What we need is lower taxes, less regulation to stimulate business development to generate revenue from private business, not from taxes paid for by government employees. If anyone can’t see that is a ponzi scheme, please, please, please look up ponzi scheme. 

There are so many people in Hollister that commute to the Bay Area that would gladly work in Hollister if there were jobs. 

Sell the airport now and let business come up with some ideas to create jobs without any government help. 

Government should be looking for ways that they interfere with business development and remove as many of those interferences as possible to stimulate jobs that are more permanent than bubble creating housing jobs and diversify the economy. 

It is madness to keep thinking that we must comply with stupid, state-regulated growth mandates that do nothing but bankrupt local economies. 

It’s time for our elected officials to get out of the way and that includes the ones all the way up to state and federal government. 

But the public is too unaware of the problem because the keep electing politicians that bribe us with money rather than getting out of our way with their stupid big business consolidation subsidies and bailouts.

Please, vote for someone, anyone, that has business experience, and that especially does not include a lawyer or anyone in office now. I bet you don’t have the guts to do it because the bribes are too effective. Or, just keep watching California die.

Mark Dickson

Hollister