TheDoctorsTV and New York’s Tap Water, Central Park, and Firemen: Health is Hard in the Big Apple
The doctors are traveling to different cities this season and you can even suggest that they pay a trip to your town. One episode this week was devoted to The Big Apple, New York.
It sometimes seems that everything is bigger in New York. The city prides itself as one of the world’s most popular cities where a person’s Lifestyle can be anything that you might dream it to be from fame, to fashion, to food, to music, to theater, to culture, to all kinds of things that people define as city dwellers to be needed for life amidst millions of people.
TheDoctorsTV and New York City Information
Personally, New York City is not my idea of a healthy city. You have to deal with too much stress, too much pollution, too much noise, too much crime, too much of everything except peace and quiet… I have been to New York and it’s fine for a few days; but I would never choose to live in the city. If you decide that living in New York is good for you; then you need some real strategies to stay healthy.
First of all, trying to get around the city is a challenge…a constant challenge. By taxi, by foot, by bus, by subway, but rarely for many do they have their own vehicles, because parking is a nightmare. I have read recently that it costs more than $1000 a month to pay for parking on the streets of New York. That much money could pay for all the nutritional supplements and healthy foods that you would need to deal with the stress of living in The Big Appple!
At least Dr. Lisa reduced her stress levels by taking a carriage ride. Have you ever been in a horse-drawn carriage? It’s delightful! The pace is slow and you have a moment in the hectic pace of the city to look around at your surroundings while you travel through the streets, instead of watching for traffic lights, crazy drivers, or emergency vehicles with blaring sirens. I still think that a slay sliding over the glistening snow being pulled by horses in the winter while enjoying Jackson Hole and watching the herds of Elk is much more beautiful than the sights and sounds of New York. It’s a matter of personal perspective and preference…
Central Park offers a little green space with grass, trees, and pathways where you can take a walk, enjoy a picnic, listen to a concert, or jog for a bit of exercise. Although the crime is always a concern in the city, this park provides a little introduction to what Life is like when you live with more natural surroundings in your immediate environment. It would not be ENOUGH for me, but then I have had the pleasure of having hundreds of thousands of miles of open space in the mountains, plains, and valleys of the Wild, Wild West as my backyard without fences, police, criminals, rules, regulations, or having to share it with millions of other people. The doctors talked to people in the park about sunscreen, exercise, and even using a baby stroller to lose the extra weight after pregnancy following delivery by pushing the little one around and using the stroller as a prop for exercising mommy muscles.
The New York City Firemen have a reputation that precedes the doctors, but they shared some ideas about ways to deal with pain, bone marrow transplants, and the challenges that comes with meeting the needs of so many people in crisis mode. Coffee can become a ‘go-to’ beverage just to keep the adrenaline flowing chemically stimulating the body to maintain the energy required to respond to critical events for the firefighters. But too much coffee can present a host of health problems. The doctors gave them some input, but has anyone ever heard of nutritional supplementation that supports the endocrine system and the metabolic processes when high demands must be met to stay on top of one’s game?
The doctors and Liz also talked about Tap Water and bottled water. There’s an issue that I could and have spent countless hours discussing with all of you on this Blog. You know that I feel strongly that you should not be drinking ANY city’s municipal tap water! The bio-energetic signatures of harmful chemicals and poisons from industry, agriculture, pharmaceuticals, and even drugs like birth control pills or heart medication can all have a serious impact on your health, regardless of the filtering process. It’s a profound situation with no easy answers.
While some people might feel that they can trust the tap water in New York, you wouldn’t catch me drinking it in any way, shape, or form. There’s nothing short of distillation that you could do to it to make it truly healthy. You have to decide for yourselves just how pure you are going to demand that your source of water is… Your healthy depends upon it!
Food, beverages, ice cubes, and even swimming pools or showers in this tap water puts your health at risk. Water Quality is an issue that the world needs to address, not only major cities in America. It’s far better to find an excellent bottled water and recycle or repurpose the plastic bottles than to risk your health with municipal tap water. The source of your bottled water is equally significant and we’ve discussed this topic many times in the past. Water is one of the most significant substances that make or break your healthy Lifestyle. It’s essential that you give this all of your attention to come to terms for your own choices!
You have to work overtime to be healthy when in New York, yet the city has its pleasant attributes with the Fine Arts and diversity that teaches us more about all of the ways to live on this planet together in one place. If you are going to make it in New York, you are going to have to apply everything that I have been sharing with you to maintain your health and sense of personal Well-Being.
