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Meeting your monster may be best New Year’s resoultion
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ARTICLE RESOURCE ASSOCIATION
E very holiday starts
with the best inten
tions. But even though
St. Valentine’s Day may acci
dentally see a few broken
hearts, and Thanksgiving
may spawn more thaij^ a few
cases of indigestion, nothing
goes wrong faster than a New
Year’s resolution. In fact,
studies show the vast majori
ty of Americans give up on
their resolutions to lose
weight, stop smoking, meet
more people or even make
better use of their time, the
very same week they make
them.
According to author Peter
Kray, the reason most resolu
tions fail is because people
don’t really know what they
want to accomplish when
they make them.
‘We all want answers on
how we can improve our
lives, but we have to start by
asking the right questions,”
says Kray. He should know.
His bre^through book, “The
Monster,” is changing the
way everyone from kids to
corporations, doctors to
dieters and individuals to
institutions are asking ques
tions about their health, their
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Consolidated, Don Coleman - Director of
Marketing, and Terry Peterson - Central
Division Target Marketing Manager, we
would like to thank you for your continued
support of the Coca-Cola Community
Connection program and for helping us make
2003 a success! Because of you, Coca-Cola
Products continues to be the Holiday
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relationships, and especially,
the world around them.
Set in the fictional town of
PerfectviUe, on the surface
the book is a fast-paced mag
ical adventure about three
kids and “The Monster” that
is chasing them. That simple
premise easily leads readers
into a more complex world.
However, as through the
mouths of these three
“babes,” and a reporter who
has come to PerfectviUe to
write a story about “The
Monster,” the book reveals
some very simple truths
about how this covmtry talks
to itself when it comes to
good health, good living and
good medicine.
“It is, unfortunately, a con
cise depiction of how most
people view their fives and
their relationship with medi
cine,” says Dr. William
Troian, a former Cahfomia
primary care doctor who left
his practice to work as an
emergency room and urgent
care physician. “If the book
can help get the message
across to people to take more
personal responsibility for
their own health, I’m all for
everyone reading it.”
The book certainly reflects
a healthcare situation seem
ingly out of control in
America. With obesity rates
among adolescents doubhng
in the last 10 years, prescrip
tion drug use skyrocketing,
and the awareness of inte
grated healthcare practices
such as acupuncture, mas
sage and the power of prayer
now gamering regular cover
age from mainstream media,
the timely arrival of “The
Monster” provides the cor
nerstone for anyone’s New
Year’s resolution.
It may prove to be one of
the most important tools for
righting this nation’s health
care problems in the years to
come, because unlike the
himdreds of other “quick fix”
books released each year.
this one isn’t selling a fitness
or diet plan. Instead, this
book gives the power of good
health back to the individual
through a series of simple
traths and well thought out
questions.
“It’s not about healthcare,
it’s about self care,” says Dr.
Zung Vu Tran, a chnical pro
fessor at the Department of
Preventative Medicine and
Biometrics at the University
of Colorado Health Sciences
Center in Denver.
lUustrating the way the book
can encourage anyone to
become a participant in then-
own health plan, Dr. TVan,
who estimates that only 50
percent of the patients in the
United States who receive
prescriptions actually finish
taking them, foresees a day
when doctors actually give
copies of the book to then-
patients, and corporations
hand out “The Monster” -with
their health plans.
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Teachers & Citizens of the Month
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Karen Freeman Evonne Peterson Carla Jackson Glenda Harris
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Sept. 2003 Teacher
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Oct. 2003 Teacher
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Our Featured “Citizens”...
open their hearts, recognize the needs of others, give of their time and talents,
but most importantly, they are doing what’s asked of all of us...
Follow “The Golden Rule."
“In everything do to others as you would have them do to you;
for this is the law and the prophets.
- Matthew 7:. 12
On behalf of Coca-Cola Bottling Co.
Consolidated, Don Coleman - Director of
Marketing, and Terry Peterson - Central
Division Target Marketing Manager, we
would like to thank you for your continued
support of the Coca-Cola Community
Connection program and for helping us make
2003 a success! Because of you, Coca-Cola
Products continues to be the Holiday
Favorites.
, Mattie Grigsby
June 2003 Citizen
Sarah Simons
July 2003 Citizen
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“Here’s How You Can Be Connected”
Submit, in writing, on your organizations’ letterhead, the title of your event, location contact and
phone number to: Coca Cola Community Connection, 5001 Chesapeake Dr., Charlotte, NC 28216, ■
Attn: Terry Peterson • 704-393-4365 • FAX 704-393-4265