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Operation Pull Your Own Weight is a childhood obesity prevention strategy thats built on three simple observations, including:

1.Kids who can do pull ups ARE NEVER OBESE

2.If you start them young, and use leg assisted pull ups in conjunction with a height adjustable pull up bar, ALMOST ALL KIDS can learn to do pull ups.

3.As long as they maintain the ability to do pull ups, almost all kids can NATURALLY IMMUNIZE THEMSELVES against obesity for a lifetime without ever having to resort to pills, shots, or special diets to do the trick.

After hearing these observations, people often ask, OK, so what are leg assisted pull ups? And whats a height adjustable pull up bar? And where can I buy one and help my kids to immunize themselves against obesity for a lifetime?

Of LAPUs and HAPUBs

First of all leg assisted pull ups are the ones that are done with the help of a participants legs. In other words the participant is jumping and pulling at the same time in order to get their chin up to the bar. A height adjustable bar accommodates leg assisted pull ups because it can be raised or lowered in one inch increments in order to increase or decrease the amount of leg assistance along with the level of difficulty individually for each performer. By raising the bar, the participant lowers the amount of leg assistance, and increases the level of difficulty.

The idea is to start at a height where the participant can do at least eight LAPUs, and gradually increase the repetitions to twelve. When the participant can do twelve LAPUs, the bar is raised one inch, and the entire eight to twelve scenario is repeated.

As the bar is gradually raised in one inch increments over time, the participant eventually runs out of leg assistance, and discovers that theyre suddenly able to do conventional pull ups. That is to say, they can officially pull their own weight, and have now naturally immunized themselves against obesity for a lifetime, so long as they maintain their hard won ability.

So Where Can You Buy One?

So where can you buy a height adjustable pull up bar? Honestly, to my knowledge nobody is currently manufacturing a height adjustable pull up bar that raises and lowers in one inch increments. But that doesnt mean you cant make one yourself. The remainder of this article then is dedicated to explaining how simple it is to make a home made height adjustable pull up bar. Check it out.

Here Are The Ten Things Youll Need

1.One doorway pull up bar to install permanently (preferably screwed in)

2.One roll of galvanized hanger strap, sometimes called plumbers tape

3.Two, three foot sections of chain with one inch links

4.Two Quick Links (Home Depots termsan oval shaped link with a screw based opening and closing connecting mechanism)

5.Two eye bolts

6.Two Spring Links (Home Depot termsa tear drop shaped, spring loaded connecting mechanism)

7.One pipe, one inch in diameter thats six inches wider than your doorway

8.Two rubber floor protectors. These are normally used on the bottoms of chairs to protect the floor, but in this case you place on each end of the pipe.

9.One wooden ruler, three feet long

10.One drill, one screwdriver, and one crescent wrench*

Sixteen Simple Steps

With these components in hand, follow 16 simple steps and youll have your very own, cost effective, home made, childhood obesity prevention machine (a.k.a. a height adjustable pull up bar) with which your kids can teach themselves how to do pull ups, and in the process they can immunize themselves against obesity for the rest of their lives as long as they maintain their ability to perform pull ups.

1.Permanently install the doorway pull up bar, preferably using screws

2.Mount the wooden ruler vertically along the side of the doorway

3.Cut two lengths of plumbers tape long enough overlap by two inches when wrapped completely around the pipe

4. Saddle these over the pull up bar attach the Quick Links to each one

5.Attach one section of chain to each Quick Link so that they hang from the bar

6.Close both Quick Links tightly

7.Drill a hole (two holes) about two inches from each end of the pipe

8.Insert the eye bolts into the holes and secure tightly with accompanying nut

9.Attach one teardrop shaped Spring Link into each eye bolt

10.With the Spring Links, attach your pull up bar horizontally to any pair of chain links and record the height by referring to the ruler mounted in the doorway

11.Now using your legs to jump and your arms to pull simultaneously do at least eight leg assisted pull ups.

12.If you cant do eight repetitions, lower the bar until you can do eight reps

13.Your next workout youll do nine, then ten, then eleven, then twelve reps

14.When you can do twelve repetitions, raise the bar one inch and begin the entire eight to twelve rep scenario all over again

15.As you make regular progress workout after workout, week after week, the bar will get so high that youll eventually run out of legs and be real doing pull ups.

16.Maintain that ability for the rest of your life and youll always be relatively strong and relatively trimand NEVER OBESE.

The Recipe for Success

Now that you have access to the equipment, the recipe for success includes

1.Regular workouts, twice a week, on non-consecutive days

2.Eat a well balanced diet including plenty of fruits and veggies

3.Get sufficient rest at night

4.Avoid tobacco, it makes you weak

5.Avoid alcohol, it makes you weak

6.Avoid drugs, they make you weak

7.And get stronger almost every time you work out

Questions?

If you have further questions check out the official Operation Pull Your Own Weight web site at www.pullyourownweight.net or the blog entitled www.childhood-obesity-prevention.com. Theyre both loaded with good, practical information designed for good, practical parents who want to do something to prevent their kids from childhood obesity and all the problems that go along with it.

*Make sure that all these components are strong enough to hold MORE than the weight of the children (or the adults) who will be using it.

Rick Osbourne is a Chicago based writer who currently serves as Executive Director of Operation Pull Your Own Weight, an informational web site that's dedicated to naturally immunizing kids against obesity for a lifetime without pills, shots, or special diets. If you're interested in childhood and obesity, then check out http://www.pullyourownweight.net any time. Osbourne is also a public speaker, and hes recently published an e-book entitled Operation Pull Your Own Weight: A Radically Simple Solution to Childhood Obesity (http://booksonboard.com/index.php?BODY=viewbook&BOOK=139219) that provides practical minded parents and educators with a simple, functional, affordable, and infinitely measurable antidote to childhood obesity.

If theres a water leak, repairing faucets, fixtures and pipes can be quite urgent and may require a plumbers immediate attention. If you discover a leak, it is best to shut the water while waiting for a plumber to arrive, to prevent further water damage. The quickest way to stop water leaking from the pipes is to shut off the water supply from the main valve, then go to the lowest point in the house and open a faucet. Gravity will force the remaining water to drain out the faucet, minimizing the water that can escape through the leak.

Ask how to prevent recurring problems

For basic plumbing services, such as leak repair or installing new fixtures or traps, youll pay $45 to $65 per hour, plus parts, if necessary. For weekend or night calls, you can expect to pay as much as $100 just for the call and then $75 per hour. Even at these rates it is a good idea to ask what the options are for repairs and parts, and how to prevent any problems from recurring.

Calling a plumber for an emergency job will cost you more. But remember that youre paying for their time to drive to and from your home, picking up parts and for them being on call. For a plumber specializing in drain-clearing services, you will pay at least $70 per hour for drain lines and $125 per hour for sewer lines. For weekend or night calls, add $30 per hour. But before you take out a second mortgage, you should know that most problems can be fixed in about an hour.

Hourly rates are often calculated differently

When hiring a plumber, it seems reasonable to hire a reputable, licensed plumber with the best hourly rate. The problem arises because plumbers count hours in different ways. For example, some plumbers will have lower hourly rates but charge for their driving time, while others charge what seems like an exorbitant hourly rate, but only start the clock once they arrive at your home. Others may charge an additional fee just for showing up. These are important differences to clear up before making your decision.

Have a plumber handy

When hiring a plumber, make sure they have a valid license, if required in your state. There is usually a phone number you can call to verify that the license is current and that there are no complaints against it. Any plumber you hire should have a minimum of $500,000 liability insurance and a current workers compensation policy. Once you find a plumber youre satisfied with, keep his number handy for emergencies. In an emergency, its better to call someone who already knows you than a complete stranger.

Stu Silverman is a home improvement advice columnist and freelance writer for http://www.Contractors.com and http://www.ContractorGuide.com You can find his articles and many others in the Utilities/HVAC/Fireplace category of ContractorGuide.com

Call me crazy, but I dont worry that much about global warming and how us pitiful humans are supposedly making the Earth heat up. Maybe its just knowing that over the millennia since the Earth was born it has gone through massive warming and cooling cycles and a myriad of other devastating events. And all long before us evil capitalistic humans arrived on the scene.

Asteroid collisions spewing more dust into the atmosphere than can be imagined, massive volcanic eruptions belching quantities of sulfur oxides that cannot be comprehended, fluctuations in sun spots and solar temperatures, dinosaurs as big as buildings depositing trillions of tons of poop directly into rivers without waste water treatment plants, and so on all came before evil humans and our oil burning beasts. Lush jungles and massive glaciers all came and went over that time all without human interference.

Make no mistake. Humans can do great harm to ourselves by the actions we take and the junk we dump into our surroundings. But we do also tend to scare easily, freak out and go overboard causing harm as well.

For example, all it took to get DDT banned was a poorly written piece of fear mongering propaganda by Rachel Carson called Silent Spring in which she lamented the lack of birds singing because their eggs had been made weak and their cute little baby birds died all because of DDT. Even despite being completely rebutted it is still to this day on the reading lists at many colleges.

After Carsons book millions died from mosquito born illnesses around the world that would have easily been prevented had the ban on DDT not followed. Once the camels nose was under the tent did anyone think it would be long before the whole camel was inside?

And how can we forget the numerous times we have been told that we were going to run out of oil in so many years only to completely blow by those dates? Today we continue to discover vast reserves of new oil.

Then years ago we had to put catalytic converters on our cars to convert pollutants such as Carbon Monoxide, oxides of Nitrogen and unburnt hydrocarbons into less harmful things like O2, N2, CO2 and H2O. It was a glorious day hailed by environmentalists as a huge victory. And while it certainly was a good thing that emissions which caused potential problems were reduced into common substances the fact that it was done by the federal government was really the goal and the ultimate victory so-called environmentalists celebrated.

Im not saying that I disagree with the result. But I do disagree with the process of citizens turning to government to make it so. All the people had to do was refuse to buy such polluting vehicles from manufacturers. Believe me as a greedy capitalist myself, someone would have listened and produced a car demanded by the people. But thats not how we chose to act. Now it was not just the camels nose that was under the tent, but its entire head.

Sadly, since then the entire camel has not just come inside the tent but it has also been knocking over tables and pots and lamps ever since generally causing a huge mess.

If you doubt it take note. Now the Supreme Court is being asked to weigh in on the premise that even some of those products created by catalytic converters to be less dangerous are now in need of regulation according to 12 states and some dozen or so environmental groups. The government is being asked to regulate CO2 which is more commonly known as plant food.

Just wait until these folks start looking into water vapor! Because it is a stronger greenhouse gas than CO2 could ever hope to be and, as previously noted, it is also a byproduct of catalytic converters.

On top of that we have areas full of this dangerous and deadly pollutant euphemistically called lakes, rivers, seas and oceans just to name a few. Obviously emissions (i.e. natural evaporation) from these dangerous reservoirs of pollution will also have to be regulated.

Quick! Someone get God on line one and tell him he has to file a permit and put a control device over those dangerous pollution sources!

Ok, so CO2 from tail pipes is a pollutant? Then the solution is simple! Rip the catalytic converters off cars. That will reduce CO2 emissions dramatically. Sure well be back to having large amounts of CO instead, but at least disaster will be averted!

But thats not the goal here. The goal is incremental control by government over the lives of people. First regulate the pollutants from combustion then mandate catalytic converters and then regulate the emissions the catalytic converts cause. Eventually we will be buried under so many regulations well need to fill out a request in triplicate and wait six months for approval from a government bureaucrat just to fart. After all, if cow flatulence causes global warming dont you know soon us evil humans will need to watch our farts as well?

Now however for a serious question. If we begin to regulate and limit CO2 from tailpipe emissions how long until environmentalists sue on the behalf of trees and other plants that we as humans are starving them and denying them their basic right to food? What about the rights of plants? Dont laugh. You might be surprised at how insane some people are.

J.J. Jackson is the owner and Lead Editor of American Conservative Politics - The Land of the Free and American Conservative Daily. He is also the owner of The Right Things - Conservative T-shirts & Gifts