I wish that it was possible for me to do this for my wife on a Saturday night date.

Tonight was the Temple Celebration for the Oquirrh Mountain Temple.  I’ve been attending the dance practices with my son for the last couple of months.

When we attended to kick off devotional our Stake President asked the youth to consider choosing the option (dance or choir) that they were the least familiar with.

My son told me that for that because he couldn’t dance he wanted to give it a try and learn to dance in the process.

Well all of his hard work paid off and he did a great job.  He looked like he had a great time doing it too.

Researchers say too much cola can be bad for your health

It seems that if you just wait 5 minutes, there will be a new study published that tells you that too much of something is bad for your health.  To me that just makes sense.  Too much of anything has got to be bad for you in one way or another, right?

What amazes me in this story is the part about the 21 year old woman and her health problems.  It says hat she drank up to 7 liters of cola a day for 10 months, as a result she “developed fatigue, appetite loss, excessive vomiting and a heart blockage”.

Let’s do some quick math here.  I’m going to assume that every day she drank 7 liters.  I realize that the article says “up to 7 liters” but I’m going to assume the worst because well I can and it makes the story sound better.

According to the story, 1 liter is equal to 33.8 ounces.  So 7 liters would be equal to 236.6 ounces.  There are 128 ounces in a gallon, so that’s 1.84 gallons of Cola a day.

In 10 months there are roughly 300 days, give or take a few.  That’s 552 gallons (Sorry, I’m American I think in Gallons) of Cola in 10 months time.

Now let’s just backup a little.  As I mentioned that’s 236.6 ounces per day.  Let’s assume that this person is awake for 16 hours per day (which also assumes a full 8 hours sleep cycle).

If they were drinking 12 ounce cans of Cola, they would be drinking 19.71 cans (we’ll round to 20, because is someone drinking that much per day really going to let .29 of a can go to waste, I don’t think so) per day.  Yes, that’s slightly more tan 3 six packs per day.

So 20 cans per day in 16 hours is one can every 48 minutes.

Yeah, I can see how that would cause health problems.  Just for the record, I suspect that it’s not just Cola.  I think that if anyone were to drink anything this much, they would have some kind of medical problem.

As a kid my grandparents had a membership to CamperWorld.  We went there quite a bit.  I have fond memories of several trips to Bear Lake as a kid and staying at the campground up there.

They’ve since sold their membership, but I’ve wanted to purchase one and start going again. After reading this story, I’m kind of glad that I haven’t.

Remember this….well now there’s this.

There has to be a solution somewhere on how to make this work.  How many Stay At Home Mom’s out there have their degrees in Nursing and are taking their Continuing Education credits online (or by other methods) to maintain their licenses, can’t there be someway of allowing them to “volunteer” at the schools for an hour or two each week for a period of time to help out in this situation?

I realize that there are some risks involved here, but if the legislature isn’t able to provide the funding for the nurses, can’t they find a way to provide for an alternative plan like this?

Personally, I don’t like the idea of my children’s school not having trained Medical Personnel on the premises.  I’m sure that they office staff is great but if there’s a real emergency that means life or death for my child, I’d honestly rather have the Nurse there than an Administrative Assistant.