Happy New Year!

Well, naturally, Happy New Year, Monticello! Hopefully, you still have not broken all your New Years resolutions. We are all optimistic for a new year and wish that optimism continues.

What’s your resolutions? One of the standards is to eat healthier. As one person was advised by her doctor as how to get healthier, don’t eat anything from a can, a box or a package. If you read the ingredients to these no-no foods, they will scare you—for instance, sodium bisulfite, used as a preservative, is actually made from sulfuric acid and table salt, and that is just one ingredient.

In the past year, one food critic described some of the ingredients in Parmesan cheese in the can, sawdust or cellulose powder which is made by grinding up plant stems such as bean or cotton stems. And put down the salt shaker.

Sugar, we all love it. Just white granulated sugar is healthier than the corn syrup or other stuff added to sweeten our foods and drinks. Ever seen potassium benzoate in the ingredients of your diet soda? This compound is a preservative that inhibits fungus growth, Thanks but no thanks.The artificial sweeteners trick your body into thinking that is getting the sugar you crave and when it doesn’t produce the expected results, you head for a sugary snack.

Avoid being pessimistic or pessimistic people. Many tell me that they stopped watching the news, it’s so pessimistic. Does that mean that your opinions and ideas are provided by the paid-talking-heads who are reading a script someone wrote for him/her?

Change the channel, we have 100’s. Pessimistic people, there are loads of us. Irish poet and playwright, pessimist, Oscar Wilde, quotes are infamous, “Be yourself, everyone else is taken,” “I can resist anything except temptation,” “A good friend will always stab you in the front,” and “A pessimist is wrong 99 percent of the time, but Ah, that 1 percent.”

For certain, year 2020 will bring us some surprises and some disappointments.