Secrets for Success and Happiness by Og Mandino

Author:Og Mandino [Mandino, Og]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-78822-1
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2011-01-04T16:00:00+00:00

“Happy, happy Christmas that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days,” Dickens continued, “recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!”

December 28

I continue to be amazed at the growth of the health food industry, and I confess that whenever I am in a mall containing a health food store, I visit and spend lots of time browsing, searching for that one magic potion that will supply me with more energy and drive than anyone has a right to have.

Fascinating to me are the mystical-sounding chemical-medical words used to describe the ingredients in some of the magic elixirs offered. For example, you can buy an energy booster with “octacosanol” to improve one’s stamina, and you can buy a very special vitamin C tablet that contains “bioflavonoids.” Then there is a tablet that includes “glutathione peroxidase” that hopefully will slow down the aging process of your old skin and prevent sun spots, and another tablet to assist the stressed-out individual that contains both “methionine reductase” and “catalase.”

I’m always tempted to buy a bottle of each. I did try one bottle of a high-nutrition tablet that fascinated me because it contained Siberian ginseng, damiana, ginger, golomon sea, gotu kola, capsicum, juniper berry, and ma huang. Didn’t feel any better or any worse. Maybe it needed a longer trial run.

Received a catalog yesterday containing fifty pages of miracle potions, from products to increase one’s sexual desire to tablets for one’s prostate gland. There is a pill to halt postnasal drip, another to help us better digest our meals, one to help us kick the terrible habits of smoking and drinking coffee, and a shampoo treatment to halt hair loss, which has arrived in my life too late.

Then there’s a capsule made from the roots of yucca plants, a favorite of the Indians of the Southwest for who knows how long. Apparently Indians from that part of our world rarely suffered from some of modern man’s most common physical complaints, such as arthritis, high blood pressure, and intestinal disorders, and the red man apparently credits a good deal of his fine health and energy to the yucca root.

Most of the good health offerings are quite expensive. Do they work? Probably some do, while many are just exercises in self-indulgence. I doubt that Sir William Temple would have approved of all these special elixirs when the great seventeenth-century statesman wrote, “The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence and to live as if he were poor.”

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