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A few years ago, I was working as a bartender at a craft cocktail bar in a sushi restaurant. It's located in a very wealthy suburban area outside of Austin, TX. The customer base was entirely well off. Most of whom were generally very nice and a pleasure to serve, but of course, like in any restaurant, there were clients that shocked me with how disrespectful and entitled they acted.I had been there for over 2 years and was quite familiar with all the regulars. I had dealt with my fair share of rude remarks and unreasonable demands, but one instance outdoes them all…During the couple weeks prior to the situation I was having a huge problem falling and staying asleep. It got to the point where my fatigue was getting in the way of my life, so my mom gave me an Ambien (which I had never taken before) to offer some relief. I don't like prescription pills, but I was desperate for a solid night's sleep, so one night I took it around 9pm. The next day I woke up at 4:30pm in a complete daze. I was super groggy and disoriented, but when I saw the clock I shot out of bed in a panic. I was scheduled to be at work at 4pm. I changed as fast as I could and rushed off to work while texting my boss (who luckily happened to be my best friend and roommate) that I was sorry and on my way.I showed up 20 minutes later exhausted, dehydrated, hungry, and totally out of sorts. My boss was irritated but understanding, as he knew I had been having trouble sleeping and took the Ambien for the first time the night before. I apologized to him, clocked in, and got straight to work setting up for the night.Nobody was in the restaurant except 2 men at the bar. One was a regular who I've served dozens of times and the other was new to me. My coworker had already made them drinks and ordered their food, but I approached to greet them as I always do with bar customers when I first come in. I began saying, “Hi, how are y'all doing? I see your drinks have already been taken care of but let me know if there's anything else-” when I was cut off by the unfamiliar man. “Damn Hun, can I buy you some food? Do you know what food is? Looks like you've never seen it before.” He throws his head back in laughter joined by his friend, the regular, and they clink their martini glasses cheering for his “hilarious” joke at my expense.(I'll give you some background information. I'm also a fashion model who does runway. I'm 5′ 10′ and 125 pounds. I was 18 years old at the time and have a long, slender frame. This was not the first time I had been skinny shamed, but after waking up entirely disoriented and weak from not eating or drinking anything the whole day prior to this incident, I was taken aback.)I stared at him in utter disbelief. Did he really just say that to me? Did this middle aged, overweight, a** hole who's stuffing his face with shrimp tempura and crab rangoons just say that?I quivered with shock, disgust, and anger. Then came my unthought out response, “Wow… You don't f**king say that to people. What the f**k is wrong with you?”They both glared at me with equal disbelief and said nothing. I walked to the bathroom and started crying as soon as the door closed behind me. I knew I shouldn't have said that, but I stand behind the fact that I defended myself. My boss/ best friend/ roommate didn't see it that way. He followed me into the bathroom visibly upset. He said it would be best if I went home and got some rest. I agreed and left immediately.Looking back, I know that if that happened at another restaurant, I would have been fired, but I damn well don't regret putting that guy in his place.

When George Foreman retired after the Jimmy Young fight, he did NOT have money troubles. His wife had insisted that they invest his winnings, and he was naturally frugal, unlike a lot of athletes. Though George had made around 6 million dollars, (minus paying his team), he and his family were comfortable.CREDIT PICTURE BRITISH HEART FOUNDATIONUnlike so many athletes and celebrities, Foreman never spent lavishly, ran through spouses, or wasted money at all. Having being born dirt poor, George had a keen sense of saving money and not ever having his family want for things the way he had.Why did George Foreman retire in 1977?Young George Foreman was the most feared heavyweight in history other than Sonny Liston. He had a thunderous, accurate jab, incredible power in both hands, greater strength than practically anyone else who ever set foot in the ring, (with the possible exception of Sonny Liston and Jim Jeffries), he cut the ring off well - had he not fallen to Ali in Zaire, he would have terrorized the heavyweights for a decade.All time greats such as Jack Dempsey and Joe Louis both commented that Foreman may have been the strongest heavyweight hitter that they had ever seen, certainly the strongest since Sonny Liston.Angelo Dundee noted this about Foreman before the fight with Frazier for the title: "He's got a jab like I've never seen on a heavyweight since Sonny Liston. He has a strong left hand. I mean strong. He can stop a man in his tracks."George Foreman at his awesome 1973 best may have been the most powerful heavyweight champion ever. At 6’3 ½” and 220 pounds, with an 79” reach he was the best of the “super-heavyweights.” Consider that George Foreman, in his prime had the highest knockout percentage in boxing history, of anyone who fought real contenders. (Wilder is higher, but has fought 40 tomato cans, an old man, and a guy recovering from a 4 year drug binge, Foreman fought Norton and Frazier, among others!).After his destruction of Ken Norton, he was 40-0 with 37 knockouts, for a knockout percentage of 92.50. In his career Foreman had 15 first round knockouts and 18 second round knockouts. That's 33 knockouts inside of the first 2 rounds! He had 46 knockouts that were 3 rounds or less, which is more than any other heavyweight champion. George Foreman’s incredible two round destruction of Joe Frazier was the most one-sided beating ever delivered upon an undefeated heavyweight champion.In his prime, George brought to the ring not only exceptional raw power and confidence but also a frightening arsenal of various punches. His uppercuts could lift a man off their feet, his hooks were paralyzing, his strong left jab was true, his right hand, although not often thrown straight was a decapitating blow thrown short or long. He used his massive arms to block punches and could parry punches with his rear hand. He would sometimes slap opponent’s guards down with his hands and then batter them with massive power shots to the head and body. The Foreman of 73-74 also may have been the best ever at cutting down and off the ring on his opponents.Joe Frazier said Foreman's jab "stopped me dead in my tracks, I mean, his jab alone was like being hit by a bus!"The only reason Ali won that fight in Zaire was because Muhammad had a cast iron chin, incredible pain resistance, could absorb tremendous punishment to the body, and an uncanny knack for slipping punches to reduce their impact Still, only Ali’s incredible ability to take a beating and his enormous heart allowed him to survive George’s punches that night. As it was, it was very close by the 8th round, if George could have kept going another round or two, Ali would have been finished by his own admission. Ali said in his autobiography that Foreman had him out on his feet but didn’t know it.George believed that fate, in the form of his pre-fight injury, and the failure of his corner to help him adapt to Ali in Zaire, caused that loss, and he believed - and so did Ali - that had they fought again, George would have easily carried the day. As for Young, George wrote that off to not acclimating himself to the climate of Puerto Rico, and overconfidence.What changed and caused his retirement?In his dressing room, after the 1977 Jimmy Young fight, George had a profound, life altering, religious experience. In his book "God in My Corner : A Spiritual Memoir" by George Foreman and Ken Abraham, George said that he was not a religious man at the time, but he was in a place of darkness, and he began to plead with God to help him. He has said and written, that he sensed God asking him to change his life and ways. When he said, "I don't care if this is death – I still believe there is a God", he felt a hand pull him out and sensed that he was also suffering stigmata. After this experience, Foreman became a born-again Christian, dedicating his life for the next decade to God.Gil Clancy always believed it was heat stroke. Gil Clancy, Foreman’s trainer, said, “It was hot as hell in the ring. He was hallucinating from dehydration.”But George himself had no doubt it was a message from God, and he retired from boxing, and went forth to preach the word. First preaching from street corners in Houston, he became the Minister for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in Houston, and built the Youth Center that bears his name. To this day, he maintains and supports it financially.George’s financially supporting his Church and Youth Center drained his savingsHad George not been supporting his Christian ministry and outreach, he would have lived comfortably on his savings the rest of his life.But George put his own money into his mission in all aspects, and in 1987, faced the prospect of either spending the last of his savings, or closing his Youth Center. Foreman says in "God in My Corner : A Spiritual Memoir," that he prayed for an answer, and with his wife demanding he not bankrupt the family, decided a return to boxing was the only answer to funding his Church and Youth Center.George returned to the ring only to raise money for his "kids and his flock" as he called his youth center and church. He quietly has done charity work continuously since his religious experience after the Young fight.Despite weighing well over 300 pounds, despite having not the tiniest desire to hit another human being, and despite not having been in a ring in over 10 years, George decided that boxing was the only way he could keep his youth center open, while not hurting his own family.So back to boxing he went, though not particularly happily.Back to Boxing to pay for his good works"I never wanted to come back," Foreman said, "but when I had to, for the Church and the kids, all I wanted was to make a little money." George started with journeymen because he was fat, old, and cautious. He, at that point, had no desire to be champion again, he just wanted to support his youth center, and Church. As time passed, and the knockouts mounted, the networks began paying attention, and the money got bigger.George himself outlined how his determination to earn a little money, enough to maintain his ministry and his youth center, slowly, over time, became an unlikely crusade after a few years to regain his title. In "By George: The Autobiography of George Foreman" Big George candidly admits he never planned any of it. He just wanted to keep his youth center afloat, and sponsor needed improvements and activities at his Church.Gil Clancy, Hall of Fame trainer who worked with George in his youth, was called by George when he came back, but declined, telling George to stay retired. But he admitted later, "George knew what he was doing. He always had solid boxing skills and excellent fundamentals. He just didn't have to use them much at 25, with his power. At 40, and so much slower, he did need them."An Unlikely March to the TitleGil Clancy, his trainer back then, said "Although George had some success at an old age fighting in a more controlled manner, the comeback version was never as good as the original seek and destroy version."People forget how good and dominant George was in his youth. He won an Olympic Gold Medal after boxing only a little over a year, and with only 20 amateur fights and a year of coaching going into the Olympics. That feat is unmatched in history, and in some ways is his most remarkable achievement.The man who returned to boxing in 1987 to earn a few bucks to keep his Youth Center open, had, six years later, launched an unlikely crusade to win back his title.Nonetheless, despite being slow as a tank, and nearly 46 years old, George Foreman regained the heavyweight title for a second time against Michael Moorer, almost twenty years to the day since he had lost the title to Ali in Zaire.Before the fight, George told his children, who were gathered in the dressing room that he believed that he was going to regain his title, however unlikely it seemed, and he pulled out an old gym bag, and managed to get in an old pair of moth-eaten boxing trunks. Those, George told his kids, were his trunks from the night he lost to Ali in Zaire. “I should have gotten up that night,” he told his kids, “but tonight i won’t fail.”And he didn’t.The George Foreman GrillIn "By George: The Autobiography of George Foreman" Big George discusses with some amusement that sponsors began approaching the unlikely champion of middle aged and fat men everywhere, as the first year of his second career closed. George had transformed himself from a fierce, forbidding giant, to a huge lovable Grandpa who preached good diet and family values while knocking young men out. “I was just a happy man,” George said, “and I guess people responded to that.”Advertisers began to take notice.When Foreman came out from retirement, he made a very big deal in interviews about how as a middle aged man his success was due to healthy eating, good living, and good values. At that time, Salton, Inc. was looking for a pitchman for its new fat-reducing grill. Tight on operating funds, the company had approached Hulk Hogan, who demanded a huge fee upfront to pitch the grill.Seeing one of George’s TV interviews, during which he again said all middle aged folks should eat healthy like he was, Salton executives approached him as a second choice to Hulk Hogan. Foreman, in one of the great business decisions ever, accepted on the condition that they give him 49% of the stock instead of a flat fee, and that he would pitch the company around the clock for the stock, and a percentage of profits.As of 2019, the George Foreman Grill is reported to have sold over 100 million units.George has never said, on the record, how much he has earned from the endorsement, it is known that Salton paid him $138 million in 1999, for his shares. Before that, he was paid about 40% of the profits on each grill sold (earning him $4.5 million a month in payouts at its peak), so it is estimated he has made a total of over $200 million from the endorsement, substantially more than he earned as a boxer.George still earns more than a million dollars a year for his continued commercials for the company, plus everything else he has made.George poured and continues to this day to pour a significant amount of his personal fortune into his Youth Centers, and his ministry.Big George’s second and final retirement from boxingForeman fought for the last time, at the age of 48, after losing to Shannon Briggs. He planned one comeback, a fight with Larry Holmes, five years later, but the fight, (called the “Birthday Bash” for both of its opponents ages) fell through when the promoter could not pay their guarantees before the fight.George became a popular and beloved TV Boxing Analyst on HBO, and in February 2004 announced he was training for one more comeback fight to demonstrate that the age of 55, like 40, is not a "death sentence." The fight against an unnamed opponent (rumored to be Trevor Berbick) never happened, as George’s wife and kids convinced him to stay retired.George Foreman never changed from the kindly, decent preacher who stood on those street corners in Houston. His second championship did not alter who he had become. His humble and gentle demeanor was not some sort of act he crafted to better sell George Foreman grills. He was exactly what he appeared to be - the most humble and personable fighter to ever set foot in a boxing ring.He remains that person today.

Keep your entire body as healthy as possible throughout your entire life. There's research out there which links slight dehydration over a long period of time to Alzheimer's, research which demonstrates a link between various mineral deficiencies and Alzheimer's, research which demonstrates lack of physical exercise is linked to Alzheimer's, research which shows a link between cognitive stagnation and Alzheimer's.One of the problems with Alzheimer's is we don't yet know what causes it to start.There is one fairly direct link found in a longitudinal study being done with a group of nuns who have willed their bodies to science: In the brains of nuns who lived to a very old age, 90 +, there is evidence of the placques and tangles of Alzheimer's even if the nun never showed any symptoms of Alzheimer's type dementia; and, in the brains of nuns who developed Alzheimer's type dementia, those who also had evidence of a stroke or CVA, the placques and tangles of the disease were more wide spread and abundant.So, don't have a stroke.Much research is being spent on the idea keeping your brain "strong"- using it- puzzles, learning new languages, music study, etc.- is helpful. What researchers don't tell you is such brain-games do not stop Alzheimer's from forming, but may delay cognitive damage when Alzheimer's does develop. There is no evidence at all that staying cognitively active stops Alzheimer's- none. But, as a palliative precaution, as a tactic, it certainly seems a smart way to face the possibility of Alzheimer's.Really, about the only strategy to avoid Alzheimer's and related dementias, is to stop living before age 70 or so.The younger a person is when Alzheimer's starts, the faster the disease progresses. The older a person gets, the higher the chance of developing Alzheimer's.Learn more here: Alzheimer's & Dementia Causes, Risk Factors | Research Center| Alzheimer's AssociationNow, if you wish to help those who have and who will develop Alzheimer's, possibly yourself and your loved ones, then, in the US, you need to start looking at our treatment options. Yeah, there are some medications which can slow cognitive damage, but nothing cures it. So, we warehouse these people. It is NOT a good way to live, but because of Federal and State laws, put in place to keep people "safe", an institutional, warehouse approach is what we have.In the US, as a culture, we have decided everyone should live as absolutely long as possible- quality of life be damned. We will keep a person alive whether they wish it or not, and we will continue treatment for as long as possible; we will keep you alive.In the US, a DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) is only good if we find you with no heartbeat and not breathing. If you get pneumonia, have a stroke, develop sepsis, we will treat you as aggressively as necessary to keep you alive. That is what the law says we must do. And we're law-abiding folks- we don't want to be fined for breaking that law. So you WILL be treated. At my current facility, we used to have a form called "Preferred Level of Care" wherein we asked you, or your POA, what you would like done in event of pneumonia, sepsis, a stroke, but that form was dropped this past year, and now we have only a Full or No-code form, and, if you have a Living Will, we'll dutifully put it in your chart and pretty much ignore it, because the law says we must keep you alive as long as possible- "no life support" doesn't include surgery, antibiotics or other medications, you see.So instead of letting you die of pneumonia while you're in late stage dementia, we will treat it, bring you back to whatever level of functioning you had prior to the pneumonia. We will keep you alive. It's horrible.And it's the law.In the US, we need to change these laws, and to do that, we need to change the cultural mindset of folks who, paradoxically, believe it is "playing God" to pull the plug on someone who is brain dead, but perfectly correct to stuff folks with dementias full of medications when they get an acute illness. It's "right" to let go of infants born with so many deformities they cannot survive without constant medical intervention, but it's wrong to allow someone whose brain is petrifying to die of the flu. This mindset must be eradicated if we are ever to come to a truly dignified and empathetic approach to treating folks with Alzheimer's and related dementias.If I ever win the lottery, I am going to start a facility for those with Alzheimer's and related dementias which is modeled on this one: 'Dementia village' inspires new careIt is the most humane and practical paradigm for treatment of this cluster of diseases that I have ever seen.