It’s like this. You leave work tired and hungry. You have to pick up a few things from the supermarket.
Have you noticed that you never go to the supermarket on a full stomach? And being a while since you had something to eat there’s always a bit of slack in your trousers.
Anyway, you push through the turnstile and blow me down, if there aren’t any baskets there. Every second time I go shopping I have to scrounge around the checkouts and bring a stack of baskets back to where they should be.
You do the right thing. You start in the fruit and vegetable section, move round to the fish, drop a bottle of peach tea into your basket, load up with a few groceries and then think ‘Hmmmm, I could do with something on the way home.’
You sneak back to the vegetables section and get a handful of cashews.
Now nuts are good for you. If you look at cashews, they possess herbal health benefits that include killing bacteria and germs, stopping diarrhea, drying secretions, increasing the libido, and reducing fever, blood sugar, blood pressure muscle spasms, migraine headaches, tension, soreness and fatigue. They help reduce gallstones, facilitate the utilization of iron and the elimination of free radicals.
The big problem is they pack a powerful energy punch. Cashews are around 2,400 kilojoules (kJ) per 100gms, which is about the size of the handful you scooped into the plastic bag. To put things in perspective, depending on your size and the amount of physical activity you get each day, you need between 7,000 or 8,000 a day.
Be that as it may, you’re as hungry as a horse and 100 grams doesn’t seem all that much as you navigate the lid on the box, and dip the shovel in. Two cashews fall on the floor. You look around. No-one’s watching. You stoop down, pick them up and stuff them into your mouth; can’t let good food go to waste.
You’ve cleaned the full 100gms up by the time you’re half way home and stick the empty bag under the seat to hide the evidence.
It’s your turn to cook tea. You’re still hungry. The smell of food in the supermarket and the thought of food at home has made you even hungrier. You could eat the crotch out of a low flying duck.
But first, before you get started, you need a few Ritz cracker biscuits just to tide you over. (They’re called Ritz because no-one ever had 1 Rit.) Now, whilst Ritz cracker biscuits have 2118 kJ /100gms, the redeeming feature is that each one is very small. But that only provides you with all the more reason to get through 20 of them while you’re cutting up the vegetables. There’s around 600kJ.
And they do taste better with some dip. Some of the dips contain 2000 kJ/100 grams. On this night you pull back and only have half the container, there’s 1000kJ, and all of which raises a thirst; and after all it’s been a long hard slog at the office. You’ve come home tired and depressed so the next thing you reach for is a central nervous system depressant. Duh!
The Heart Foundation reckons you’ll benefit by having a glass of wine a day; you interpret that as one’s good, two’s better and three’s best. Today it’s mid week so you decide to go easy, and restrict yourself to two glasses. A regular glass contains about 300kJ, your glasses contain 400 kJ. All up 800 kJ.
So if you want to know why your trousers are so tight they’re ring-barking you, let’s add up the kilojoules you’ve had before you’ve had your tea:
• cashews 2400
• cracker biscuits 600
• dip 1000
• wine 800
Total 4,800 kJ
On the track
Out on the stepper this morning. Started a bit late so only got in 35 minutes all at level 6: 510 calories and 657 steps.
Then off to the gym. Christine and I are back in the gym, which feels good after an extended break. We took It easy - otherwise you have to pay for it tomorrow.
In the meantime stay tuned, highly tuned and eat and apple on your way home.
John Miller
www.millerhealth.com.au
www.fitandhealthyonline.com
www.globalbackcare.com
www.crookback.com.au
Epilogue. I forgot to tell you about the Cherry Ripe that someone put into the basket at the supermarket. That was an extra 1500kJ after tea.
Sunday, June 20, 2010
I CAN'T HELP YOU - Friday 4th June 2010
Despite what the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare says, the health of Australians is getting worse.
You know that because the medical budget continues to escalate at more than 10% a year.
The Commonwealth Government is allocating nearly 20% of its budget to protect the medical industry. The States are spending around 25%. That's why there's no money for infrastructure and people have to pay to drive on roads they pay for every time they fill up their tanks. It's time people woke up to the fact that you can't have a free run into the hospital and a free ride on a tollway.
Meanwhile surgeries are pack to the rafters with people who are either given poor advice and keep coming back or people who are given good advice and keep coming back.
Spare a though for the good clients of poor doctors. They take their (junk) medicine in good faith. Their condition worsens. They keep coming back.
Spare a though for the doctors with poor customers who don't take their doctor's advice and keep coming back.
If doctors refused to write junk medical prescriptions for people suffering from personally-induced metabolic, musculo-skeletal and psychological dysfunctions and told customers who don't listen to them, 'I can't help you, you have to help yourself', then maybe we'd start to take more notice of them.
But they don't.
On the track
Out with the boys for the thrice-weekly walk/run.
In the meantime stay tuned, highly tuned and help yourself to stay in exceptionally good nick.
John Miller
www.millerhealth.com.au
www.fitandhealthyonline.com
www.globalbackcare.com
www.crookback.com.au
You know that because the medical budget continues to escalate at more than 10% a year.
The Commonwealth Government is allocating nearly 20% of its budget to protect the medical industry. The States are spending around 25%. That's why there's no money for infrastructure and people have to pay to drive on roads they pay for every time they fill up their tanks. It's time people woke up to the fact that you can't have a free run into the hospital and a free ride on a tollway.
Meanwhile surgeries are pack to the rafters with people who are either given poor advice and keep coming back or people who are given good advice and keep coming back.
Spare a though for the good clients of poor doctors. They take their (junk) medicine in good faith. Their condition worsens. They keep coming back.
Spare a though for the doctors with poor customers who don't take their doctor's advice and keep coming back.
If doctors refused to write junk medical prescriptions for people suffering from personally-induced metabolic, musculo-skeletal and psychological dysfunctions and told customers who don't listen to them, 'I can't help you, you have to help yourself', then maybe we'd start to take more notice of them.
But they don't.
On the track
Out with the boys for the thrice-weekly walk/run.
In the meantime stay tuned, highly tuned and help yourself to stay in exceptionally good nick.
John Miller
www.millerhealth.com.au
www.fitandhealthyonline.com
www.globalbackcare.com
www.crookback.com.au
PREVENTIVE HEALTH - Thursday 3rd June 2010
The big buzz-phrase in Australia at the moment is 'preventive health' (for chrissakes), medical speak for doctors telling people to exercise more, smoke less, eat better and lay off the grog.
But just ask yourself, 'How do you prevent health?'
What is really meant by the term is 'preventive medicine' but this is the term that dare not speak its name. What doctor is going to promote preventive medicine when it will reduce the number of people traipsing through their rooms?
The problem with surgeries is that the more time people spend in them the worse their health becomes. Small problems become big problems.
The health of the community is getting worse because doctors know nothing about fitness and because of that they're forced to practice junk medicine - where they prescribe drugs to mask symptoms rather than prescribing treatments which restore poor function to good.
Most health problems these days are fitness problems. Fitness problems cannot be solved by medical solutions.
The fitness industry has gone to ground.
Most of the health promoting treatments require time and effort on the part of the surgeree. Most of them don't want to expend that time or effort. They conspire with the doctor to take the escalator down to an even lower level of health, fitness and wellbeing.
Meanwhile doctors keep giving the preventive health sermon.
But guess who listens? I'll tell you who listens, nobody. That's because everyone knows a sermon is the price you have to pay to get a prescription.
All you want is for the pain to go away as quickly as possible.
The doctor is quite happy to go along with this charade.
In fact it's like this. There's a dark room with a table and three chairs. Behind the table there's a bloke saying to himself, 'How can I get rid of this bastard as quick as possible and still keep up the payments on my Merc.
On the other side of the table is a bloke saying, 'How can I get away from this bastard in the shortest possible time without paying anything.'
They collude with each other. The doctor reaches for the pad. The customer snatches the prescription off the table and heads for the chemist.
In this country the third chair is occupied by a dill with a cheque book, the Minister for Health who's quite happy to pick up part of the tab for this tawdry exchange.
So there you have it. Doctor happy, customer gone in 7 minutes flat and waiting room full to over flowing.
Customer happy, got out of there in seven minutes flat with a prescription to relieve the pain.
Minister for Health happy, electorate thinks she is a jolly good fellow.
But back to the preventive health sermon.
You just roll your eyes and let it pass in one ear and out the other.
On the track
On the stepper this morning. 40 minutes all over 140 bpm, for 562 calories and 744 steps. That feels better.
In the meantime stay tuned, highly tuned and move heaven and earth to keep yourself out of the surgery.
John Miller
www.millerhealth.com.au
www.fitandhealthyonline.com
www.globalbackcare.com
www.crookback.com.au
But just ask yourself, 'How do you prevent health?'
What is really meant by the term is 'preventive medicine' but this is the term that dare not speak its name. What doctor is going to promote preventive medicine when it will reduce the number of people traipsing through their rooms?
The problem with surgeries is that the more time people spend in them the worse their health becomes. Small problems become big problems.
The health of the community is getting worse because doctors know nothing about fitness and because of that they're forced to practice junk medicine - where they prescribe drugs to mask symptoms rather than prescribing treatments which restore poor function to good.
Most health problems these days are fitness problems. Fitness problems cannot be solved by medical solutions.
The fitness industry has gone to ground.
Most of the health promoting treatments require time and effort on the part of the surgeree. Most of them don't want to expend that time or effort. They conspire with the doctor to take the escalator down to an even lower level of health, fitness and wellbeing.
Meanwhile doctors keep giving the preventive health sermon.
But guess who listens? I'll tell you who listens, nobody. That's because everyone knows a sermon is the price you have to pay to get a prescription.
All you want is for the pain to go away as quickly as possible.
The doctor is quite happy to go along with this charade.
In fact it's like this. There's a dark room with a table and three chairs. Behind the table there's a bloke saying to himself, 'How can I get rid of this bastard as quick as possible and still keep up the payments on my Merc.
On the other side of the table is a bloke saying, 'How can I get away from this bastard in the shortest possible time without paying anything.'
They collude with each other. The doctor reaches for the pad. The customer snatches the prescription off the table and heads for the chemist.
In this country the third chair is occupied by a dill with a cheque book, the Minister for Health who's quite happy to pick up part of the tab for this tawdry exchange.
So there you have it. Doctor happy, customer gone in 7 minutes flat and waiting room full to over flowing.
Customer happy, got out of there in seven minutes flat with a prescription to relieve the pain.
Minister for Health happy, electorate thinks she is a jolly good fellow.
But back to the preventive health sermon.
You just roll your eyes and let it pass in one ear and out the other.
On the track
On the stepper this morning. 40 minutes all over 140 bpm, for 562 calories and 744 steps. That feels better.
In the meantime stay tuned, highly tuned and move heaven and earth to keep yourself out of the surgery.
John Miller
www.millerhealth.com.au
www.fitandhealthyonline.com
www.globalbackcare.com
www.crookback.com.au
GP'S SWING ON GOVERNMENT TIT - Wednesday June 2nd 2010
Saw an advert in the paper
'Grants supporting after hours GP services.'
You'd reckon if you were running a business and people wanted you to open after hours you'd jump at it, particularly a business where you earn $400,000 a year.
The health bureaucrats should spend more time at McDonalds and Woolworths to see how it's done.
According to the advert, 100 new grants are up for grabs up to a maximum of $100,000.
That's not bad dough it is, particularly when it's on top of whatever it is the doctor is getting for a consultation - $80 for 15 minutes?
No wonder the Commonwealth Government is spending $40,000,000,000 more this coming year than it earns.
It's called robbing the poor to give to the rich.
I reckon they ought to scrap the idea of a super profits tax on the mining industry and impose it on the medical industry.
On the track
Out with the boys for a walk/run at 6.45 in the freezing cold.
In the meantime stay tuned, highly tuned and put in for a grant to open your fitness centre before 9am and and after 5pm.
John Miller
www.millerhealth.com.au
www.fitandhealthyonline.com
www.globalbackcare.com
www.crookback.com.au
The health bureaucrats should spend more time at McDonalds and Woolworths to see how it's done.
According to the advert, 100 new grants are up for grabs up to a maximum of $100,000.
That's not bad dough it is, particularly when it's on top of whatever it is the doctor is getting for a consultation - $80 for 15 minutes?
No wonder the Commonwealth Government is spending $40,000,000,000 more this coming year than it earns.
It's called robbing the poor to give to the rich.
I reckon they ought to scrap the idea of a super profits tax on the mining industry and impose it on the medical industry.
On the track
Out with the boys for a walk/run at 6.45 in the freezing cold.
In the meantime stay tuned, highly tuned and put in for a grant to open your fitness centre before 9am and and after 5pm.
John Miller
www.millerhealth.com.au
www.fitandhealthyonline.com
www.globalbackcare.com
www.crookback.com.au
Saturday, June 19, 2010
FITNESS AUSTRALIA BACKS DIETITIANS OVER FITNESS PRACTITIONERS - Tuesday 1st June 2010
I forgot to mention yesterday that while the Fitness Australia bloke was telling me fitness practitioners weren't qualified to run CrookBack Clinics, he says to me that they've also put a stop to fitness practitioners running diet seminars.
This was because Fitness Australia had done a deal with the dietitian industry - who are judged by Fitness Australia to have all the answers about eating wisely.
They don't.
How on earth could you trust what comes out of the mouth of a profession that is sponsored by Nestles and Kelloggs, two of the largest manufacturers of junk food in the world - let alone what they're encouraging people to put into their mouths.
This is the industry that still tells people to stuff themselves with bread and pasta and parrots on about the glycemic index and Barry and Martin Rice.
These are the people that encourage you to eat more chocoilate because it's got a low glycemic index.
These are the people playing a firm hand in causing not fixing the problem of obesity.
Consider this.
The National Nutrition Guidelines recommends that people 'eat plenty of cereals (including breads, rice, pasta and noodles), preferably wholegrain)'. They don't say what 'plenty' means, but one set of guidelines recommends men eat 24 slices of bread a day. Can you believe that? A loaf of bread a day keeps the doctor away! Hello!
If you don't believe me click on this link: -
http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/_files_nhmrc/file/publications/synopses/n31.pdf
A serve of cereals is 2 slices of bread. Men between 19 and 60 should have between 6 and 12 serves a day.
You'd have to be living in LaLa land to make that sort of recommendation.
If you want to balloon out, follow the NH&MRC cereal guidelines. Most people living in the Western suburbs do. That's why half of them are 40Kg over weight. If you don't believe me, just go to any shopping centre on pay Thursday and watch.
30% of the people I see are suffering from flour induced headaches and a lack of energy. Their doctor tells them they're depressed. The more bread and pasta they eat the worse they feel, the fatter they get. Their blood pressure goes up. Their doctor sends them over to the chemists.
They don't teach this stuff at dietitians school!
These are also the people who wrote the NH&MRC guidelines which say, 'Development of type 2 diabetes does not appear to be related to ingestion of sugar or other carbohydrates: it is predominantly influenced by genetics, body weight and lifestyle factors.'
If eating flour and sugar isn't a 'lifestyle Factor' what is?
You can read more about this crap on this link -
http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/_files_nhmrc/file/publications/synopses/n33.pdf
The guidelines read like a stream of essays cobbled together like a string of sausages from a series of essays for Diet 101. You're meant to be impressed by the list of references but it's the same old, same old selective evidence stuff from the diet research industry beavering away in the bowels of the sheltered workshops for the academically gifted.
Just about everything the NH&MRC writes about healthy living is crap. The back care stuff certainly is, along with the diet stuff and anything to do with depression.
The dietitians are the people who advise the National Heart Foundation to give the tick to bread and pies.
As an industry it's a joke. It makes you want to roll your eyes through to the back of your neck. The fitness industry doesn't have to take any lead from these people.
You can read all about this dietitian nonsense on this link: -
http://www.fitandhealthyonline.com/hourglassdiet/index.htm
I think I'll put the Hourglass Diet up as a CEC course and see what happens. Some skinny dietitian with the appetite of a sparrow will give it a right royal shit-bagging, just you watch.
Fitness Australia must think fitness practitioners are a bunch of cretins. No wonder the industry is wallowing in the health backwater.
On the track.
No track, slack - and freezing cold.
Christine went to a conference and bought me a copy of Mark McKeon's book 'Every Day Counts.' (Mark is a former coach of Collingwood.) Apparently not every day counts, you can have a day or two off a week to recover. Today I must have recovered.
In the meantime stay tuned and eat more bread and pasta.
John Miller
www.millerhealth.com.au
www.fitandhealthyonline.com
www.globalbackcare.com
www.crookback.com.au
This was because Fitness Australia had done a deal with the dietitian industry - who are judged by Fitness Australia to have all the answers about eating wisely.
They don't.
How on earth could you trust what comes out of the mouth of a profession that is sponsored by Nestles and Kelloggs, two of the largest manufacturers of junk food in the world - let alone what they're encouraging people to put into their mouths.
This is the industry that still tells people to stuff themselves with bread and pasta and parrots on about the glycemic index and Barry and Martin Rice.
These are the people that encourage you to eat more chocoilate because it's got a low glycemic index.
These are the people playing a firm hand in causing not fixing the problem of obesity.
Consider this.
The National Nutrition Guidelines recommends that people 'eat plenty of cereals (including breads, rice, pasta and noodles), preferably wholegrain)'. They don't say what 'plenty' means, but one set of guidelines recommends men eat 24 slices of bread a day. Can you believe that? A loaf of bread a day keeps the doctor away! Hello!
If you don't believe me click on this link: -
http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/_files_nhmrc/file/publications/synopses/n31.pdf
A serve of cereals is 2 slices of bread. Men between 19 and 60 should have between 6 and 12 serves a day.
You'd have to be living in LaLa land to make that sort of recommendation.
If you want to balloon out, follow the NH&MRC cereal guidelines. Most people living in the Western suburbs do. That's why half of them are 40Kg over weight. If you don't believe me, just go to any shopping centre on pay Thursday and watch.
30% of the people I see are suffering from flour induced headaches and a lack of energy. Their doctor tells them they're depressed. The more bread and pasta they eat the worse they feel, the fatter they get. Their blood pressure goes up. Their doctor sends them over to the chemists.
They don't teach this stuff at dietitians school!
These are also the people who wrote the NH&MRC guidelines which say, 'Development of type 2 diabetes does not appear to be related to ingestion of sugar or other carbohydrates: it is predominantly influenced by genetics, body weight and lifestyle factors.'
If eating flour and sugar isn't a 'lifestyle Factor' what is?
You can read more about this crap on this link -
http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/_files_nhmrc/file/publications/synopses/n33.pdf
The guidelines read like a stream of essays cobbled together like a string of sausages from a series of essays for Diet 101. You're meant to be impressed by the list of references but it's the same old, same old selective evidence stuff from the diet research industry beavering away in the bowels of the sheltered workshops for the academically gifted.
Just about everything the NH&MRC writes about healthy living is crap. The back care stuff certainly is, along with the diet stuff and anything to do with depression.
The dietitians are the people who advise the National Heart Foundation to give the tick to bread and pies.
As an industry it's a joke. It makes you want to roll your eyes through to the back of your neck. The fitness industry doesn't have to take any lead from these people.
You can read all about this dietitian nonsense on this link: -
http://www.fitandhealthyonline.com/hourglassdiet/index.htm
I think I'll put the Hourglass Diet up as a CEC course and see what happens. Some skinny dietitian with the appetite of a sparrow will give it a right royal shit-bagging, just you watch.
Fitness Australia must think fitness practitioners are a bunch of cretins. No wonder the industry is wallowing in the health backwater.
On the track.
No track, slack - and freezing cold.
Christine went to a conference and bought me a copy of Mark McKeon's book 'Every Day Counts.' (Mark is a former coach of Collingwood.) Apparently not every day counts, you can have a day or two off a week to recover. Today I must have recovered.
In the meantime stay tuned and eat more bread and pasta.
John Miller
www.millerhealth.com.au
www.fitandhealthyonline.com
www.globalbackcare.com
www.crookback.com.au
FITNESS AUSTRALIA DUDDS FITNESS PRACTITIONERS - Monday 31st May 2010
You wouldn't believe this.
I just got word back from Fitness Australia that they won't accept the CookBack Clinic as a program for which fitness practitioners can claim continuing education credits (CEC).
A year ago I sent them off a submission and course outline for a half day program for fitness practitioners, teaching them the CrookBack Clinic methodology.
When 50% of people have some sort of musculo-skeletal dysfunction and when 80% of it relates to low levels of strength and flexibility, my thought was that this would be a good opportunity for the fitness industry to attract people to their centres and start to make an impact.
Plus it would, of course keep people out of surgeries and physio and chiropractic rooms and enable doctors, physios and chiros to get in a round of golf on Wednesday afternoons.
Well, it took four of five months for them to get back to me. I had to ring and ring to get any response from their secretarial staff. Getting none I had to pull rank.
Finally I got the review. Their reviewer had the hide to tell me that fitness practitioners didn't have the authority or qualifications to diagnose anything. That was a doctor's job. I've said before that doctors don't have a clue how to diagnose the cause of musculo-skeletal dysfunction, let alone metabolic and psychological dysfunction. That's why they practice junk medicine.
Their reviewer also queried my qualifications and that fact that they were awarded 40 years ago, and the fact that the CrookBack Clinic course for fitness practitioners was a bit short.
I guessed then that it had been reviewed by a physiotherapist. His or her response (for some reason I suspect it was a her) was that how can you teach someone where to look for the cause of a crook back in a half day (or a day) when people were attending physiotherapy courses for 4 years.
I wrote back in my second submission that maybe physiotherapy courses should be 4 years and one day!
Anyway I seriously revamped my course outline; wrote a new book. It took me a month solid. I had dozens of new diagrams done. I searched the literature about the cause of musculo-skeletal dysfunction and wrote that up as well. (The main cause as identified by the NH&MRC and the Arthritis Foundation is that it comes out of the blue, for chrissakes. They say that back pain is caused by a herniated disc, which is tantamount to saying that a crook back is caused by a crook back. This has to be the vapid of vapids.)
I took out the bits about diagnosing and toned it down to 'looking for clues'. I explained that my qualifications were current (a 2-year diploma from a university is still a diploma from a University) and that I'm a registered fitness practitioner. I also explained that I hadn't been sitting on my arse looking out the window for the last 40 years either.
I expanded the course to a full day.
Anyway, three months after I resubmitted the application I ring up the bloke from Fitness Australia to give him a hurry-up (again) and he tells me it has been knocked back for a second time, and, you guessed it - by a physiotherapist. These are the people mind you who still rub, crunch, vibrate and shock the spot where it hurts.
I said to him, 'Why didn't you get it reviewed by a fitness practitioner?' He couldn't answer that one. What an insult to a profession to get some from outside it to review your work.
On the track
Out with the boys for a walk/run.
In the meantime stay tuned, highly tuned because when I get the written response from Fitness Australia and their physiotherapist reviewer I'm going to stack on one hell of a turn.
John Miller
www.millerhealth.com.au
www.fitandhealthyonline.com
www.globalbackcare.com
www.crookback.com.au
I just got word back from Fitness Australia that they won't accept the CookBack Clinic as a program for which fitness practitioners can claim continuing education credits (CEC).
A year ago I sent them off a submission and course outline for a half day program for fitness practitioners, teaching them the CrookBack Clinic methodology.
When 50% of people have some sort of musculo-skeletal dysfunction and when 80% of it relates to low levels of strength and flexibility, my thought was that this would be a good opportunity for the fitness industry to attract people to their centres and start to make an impact.
Plus it would, of course keep people out of surgeries and physio and chiropractic rooms and enable doctors, physios and chiros to get in a round of golf on Wednesday afternoons.
Well, it took four of five months for them to get back to me. I had to ring and ring to get any response from their secretarial staff. Getting none I had to pull rank.
Finally I got the review. Their reviewer had the hide to tell me that fitness practitioners didn't have the authority or qualifications to diagnose anything. That was a doctor's job. I've said before that doctors don't have a clue how to diagnose the cause of musculo-skeletal dysfunction, let alone metabolic and psychological dysfunction. That's why they practice junk medicine.
Their reviewer also queried my qualifications and that fact that they were awarded 40 years ago, and the fact that the CrookBack Clinic course for fitness practitioners was a bit short.
I guessed then that it had been reviewed by a physiotherapist. His or her response (for some reason I suspect it was a her) was that how can you teach someone where to look for the cause of a crook back in a half day (or a day) when people were attending physiotherapy courses for 4 years.
I wrote back in my second submission that maybe physiotherapy courses should be 4 years and one day!
Anyway I seriously revamped my course outline; wrote a new book. It took me a month solid. I had dozens of new diagrams done. I searched the literature about the cause of musculo-skeletal dysfunction and wrote that up as well. (The main cause as identified by the NH&MRC and the Arthritis Foundation is that it comes out of the blue, for chrissakes. They say that back pain is caused by a herniated disc, which is tantamount to saying that a crook back is caused by a crook back. This has to be the vapid of vapids.)
I took out the bits about diagnosing and toned it down to 'looking for clues'. I explained that my qualifications were current (a 2-year diploma from a university is still a diploma from a University) and that I'm a registered fitness practitioner. I also explained that I hadn't been sitting on my arse looking out the window for the last 40 years either.
I expanded the course to a full day.
Anyway, three months after I resubmitted the application I ring up the bloke from Fitness Australia to give him a hurry-up (again) and he tells me it has been knocked back for a second time, and, you guessed it - by a physiotherapist. These are the people mind you who still rub, crunch, vibrate and shock the spot where it hurts.
I said to him, 'Why didn't you get it reviewed by a fitness practitioner?' He couldn't answer that one. What an insult to a profession to get some from outside it to review your work.
On the track
Out with the boys for a walk/run.
In the meantime stay tuned, highly tuned because when I get the written response from Fitness Australia and their physiotherapist reviewer I'm going to stack on one hell of a turn.
John Miller
www.millerhealth.com.au
www.fitandhealthyonline.com
www.globalbackcare.com
www.crookback.com.au
MASTERCHEF- OVERDONE- Sunday 30th May 2010
I was a bit hard on Gary Mehigan and George Calomaris when i last wrote about Masterchef. They;re good blokes.
I've watched them giving feedback to the contestants, it's always fair and honest. They're appreciative of good work, firm when it's shoddy.
They're good teachers, they love their students and get misty when they have to chuck people off the show.
As for when it's all going to end; I think it will be at exactly the same moment as Matt Preston splits his strided and the buttons on his jacket part company and end up in a bowl of soup on the other side of the kitchen.
On the track
40 minutes of the stepper just about all at level 8. 589 calories and 780 steps.
In the meantime stay tuned, highly tuned and ate more, of the right food at the right time.
John Miller
www.fitandhealthyonline.com
www.globalbackcare.com
www.crookback.com.au
I've watched them giving feedback to the contestants, it's always fair and honest. They're appreciative of good work, firm when it's shoddy.
They're good teachers, they love their students and get misty when they have to chuck people off the show.
As for when it's all going to end; I think it will be at exactly the same moment as Matt Preston splits his strided and the buttons on his jacket part company and end up in a bowl of soup on the other side of the kitchen.
On the track
40 minutes of the stepper just about all at level 8. 589 calories and 780 steps.
In the meantime stay tuned, highly tuned and ate more, of the right food at the right time.
John Miller
www.fitandhealthyonline.com
www.globalbackcare.com
www.crookback.com.au
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