June 2008 Newsletter

Gas Prices

Gas prices affect everything in today’s modern world, from groceries to vacations. It is in the news, in conversations with your friends and all over the Internet. “The price of gas is ridiculously high and I can’t afford it,” is no longer an uncommon phrase. Generally, Americans are worried about today’s economy but they just don’t know what to do about it and still keep their current lifestyle. Possibly it is time to change that lifestyle and possibly, just possibly, it is for the better.

According to national figures from the US Department of Energy in March 2007, 52% of the cost of gasoline went to pay for crude oil, 24% for refining, 15% to taxes, and 9% for distribution and marketing. The largest consumer of gasoline in the world is the United States, which used an average of 386 million US gallons of gasoline each day in 2005 (wikipedia). The average American uses 500 gallons of gasoline every year. The average vehicle is driven more than 12,000 miles per year today. That number is expected to increase about 40 percent during the next 20 years if Americans don’t change their driving habits by using public transportation, carpooling, walking or bicycling (US Energy Information Administration).

There is actually a possibility of making money on the rising gas prices from your home.

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Why the Weight Loss Plateau?

By Joie Lehman CCLC

When you've been faithful to your dieting program, you are eager to get on those bathroom scales to see how much weight you have lost! Your excitement comes to a halt and is replaced with frustration and discouragement when you discover no loss, or even worse, weight gain!

Though faithful to our diets, occasional fluctuation of our weight should be expected. Weight loss plateaus are a common part of the weight loss process. Changing your dieting pattern or drinking an excess of fluids the previous day can easily tip the scales in a frustrating direction. Weighing yourself once a week will allow your body time to catch up and balance itself. An actual plateau can be recognized when our weight stays the same for several weeks.

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