Camppo

Ahh, day 2 of Camp Blacken.

At least that's what I call the little Kick-off camp we are in the process of doing right now. We are outside so much, I'm already looking like coal.

Hmm, I came home and only to be there 45 minutes when my mother came in, "I'm going to Sweeny Hospital."

--Silence.--

"You're brother is in there."

Whoops, I didn't think it was a big deal because my mother is known to make a big deal out of nothing. So I knew everything was alright.

WE went over there, and found one of my older brothers [Rod] and this guy that works with them, and then my dad, and my LITTLE brother [Buddy] in there. Hmm, someone called his wife and was like "OMG JOHN IS IN THE EMERGENCY ROOM!!"

She was freaking the heck out.

But it wasn't even serious. It turns out he drove himself to the ER.

He said that he was having severe chest pains and he couldn't even breath. Quote on Quote "It felt like someone was choking me."

He works outside in the heat, and my mom thinks it got to him.

I think it's something else.

But they ran some tests on him, and made him stay in the hosptial overnight.

IN other news. Camp was. Actually. Not that bad. I didn't even break a sweat.

It seems to be getting easier each year. I wonder why.

I'm trying desperately to save my skin. I don't want it to get all blotchy and break out and stuff.

Yuck.

Dieting 101.

INTRODUCTION:

Ok, I know FINALLY I am putting this in here.

[Jeez you. You could have put it in YOUR blog you know!]

Ok so, we [I say we as in Cassie, Pastel, and I] are planning to do this little diet thing together this summer. It's not so much as a DIET, but it's a fitness plan; it has rules and boundaries, so we can't break them, or we have to pay the consequences.

So far, with the people that I have told about it, they want to join in too, and maybe if we get this thing off the ground, it can be a widely held thing going around. That would be pretty sweeeeet.

HEALTH ISSUES:

Considering that the many of us, or most of us [sorry Pastel] live in America, or near it, we are considered the fattest country in the world.

Now why is that you ask?

64% of Americans are overweight or obese, and a quarter of those people are obese in general.

That is extremely unhealthy. Speaking of health:
Obesity is becoming the second largest preventable cause of death in America according to two academic studies. A lot has to do with the choice of foods that people eat. Obesity also contributes to diabetes, heart disease and even deaths from the E. coli bacteria, which can be found in the bacteria in fast food meats. - Lissa Eriksson