Sick of being told what to eat, drink, and do? Then this is your lucky day! Here are ten things that people tell you are bad but actually have healthy aspects to them. In future when someone whines at you – you can point them in the direction of this list and have the last laugh! So onwards, the ten things that are healthier thank you think.

Ice-cream is a low GI (glycemic-index) food. This means that it is a slow sugar release food that keeps you satisfied for a longer period of time than a high GI food. For that reason, you are less likely to binge after eating ice-cream. 75 grams of Ben and Jerry’s Cookies and Cream ice-cream contains only 114 calories compared to a slice of cheesecake with 511 calories. Furthermore, ice-cream is made of milk which contains many essential nutrients and vitamins. 1 cup of milk contains up to 30% of a man’s daily recommended intake. Other nutrients in ice-cream are biotin, iodine, potassium, selenium, vitamins a, b12, D, and K. Studies show a possible link between milk consumption and a lowered risk of arterial hypertension, coronary heart disease, colorectal cancer.

Interesting Fact: In the 5th century BC, the ancient Greeks sold snow cones made with fruit and honey in the markets of Athens.

Throw away the rubber globes! Dirt is back in vogue! Remember the days where kids played in dirt, food was served with bare hands, and straws didn’t come in individual wrappers? It turns out – they were healthier days than our modern sterile ones! Early childhood exposure to bacteria, viruses, and parasites has been found to give a massive boost to our immune systems, making us less likely to get sick when we do come in to contact with various bugs. Research has found that children with a dog in the home are less likely to suffer allergies, and regular social interaction can reduce the risk of leukemia by up to 30%. Those are statistics not to ignore – so throw away the anti-bacterial cleaners and get dirty!

Interesting Fact: There are as many as 10 times more bacterial cells in the human body than human cells! The vast majority of these are harmless.

Stress is universally considered a bad thing – in some cases people have successfully won lawsuits against companies for work-related stress. But, what most people don’t know is that a little stress goes a long way to making us healthier. In short doses, stress can help boost the body’s immune system. In the first stage of stress (the “alarm” stage – often known as the “fight or flight” response) the body produces cortisol – a stress fighting hormone which has many benefits to the body. Stress can give a feeling of fulfillment – when this is the case it is called “eustress” as opposed to “distress”.

Interesting Fact: The term “stress” and the mental properties of it was not known before the 1950s. Until that time it referred simply to hardship or coercion.

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Should an Indiana couple go to jail for saving Bambi?

That’s the question surrounding the case of Jeff and Jennifer Counceller, who rescued an injured fawn and nursed it back to health at their Connersville, Ind., home. The couple now faces the possibility of jail time and fines after state officials charged them with a misdemeanor for harboring the animal.

Jeff Counceller, a police officer in Connersville, and his wife were charged with unlawful possession of a deer, a misdemeanor that punished to its fullest extent could put the Councellers in jail for up to 60 days and cost them up to $2,000 in fines.

The couple rescued the deer more than two years ago after finding it on their neighbor’s porch. The Councellers said the deer had sustained injuries, and they wanted to nurse it back to health.

“I could feel all of the open wounds all along her back side and she wouldn’t stand up,” Jennifer Counceller told ABC News.

They brought the deer home and named her Little Orphan Dani.

The Councellers said an Indiana Conservation Officer stopped by their home and discovered the deer this past summer. The Indiana Department of Natural Resources wanted to euthanize Dani, saying she might be dangerous and a threat to people.

“I was devastated. I spent a year and several months nursing her into adulthood, getting to the point where she was able to go out on her own,” Counceller said.

On the day Dani was to be put down, the Councellers said she inexplicably escaped from their backyard. Even though Dani disappeared back into the wild, the Councellers’ legal problems didn’t go with the fawn.

The Indiana Department of Natural Resources said it couldn’t comment on pending litigation but that it did discourage people from taking in injured wildlife. This case could go to court next month, and if charges aren’t dropped, it will be left for a jury to decide whether the Councellers broke the law.

“No matter what the law is, we did what was right for the animal,” Counceller said.

Meanwhile, the story has caused uproar on the Internet. A Facebook supportpage has more than 6,400 “Likes” in support of the couple. An online petitionto drop the charges already has more than 3,800 signatures.

Rick on Change.org wrote, “An act of humanity should not be rewarded with a sentence.”

Michelle on Facebook wrote, “They are being punished for having compassion and showing kindness.”

The Councellers’ case could go to court next month

Gold remains vulnerable to a collapse although not instantly. A monthly closing beneath 1532 will signal that a drop to the mid-1100 zone is likely. The Goldbugs have already been banning together to try to make sure no one listens to anything I have to say. They remain bent of BUY AND HOLD and are against the idea of trading. If gold declines, it is a plot rather than the absence of analysis. They respond no different than any other group who try to shut down everything that disagrees with their views the same as government. As they say, the truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Unfortunately, the simple fact is gold has rallied for 13 years. The Goldbugs have sold gold to just about everyone who would listen. Instead of helping people survive, It is all about desperately trying to keep the balloon inflated and sell even more to the same people. The Japanese tried that too – it failed. The object is to go with the flow. Stop trying to dictate to the market and you will survive. There is a time and place for everything. Gold is just not ready for prime time right now. The German elections are in September and most will sit on their hands waiting for Merkel to be reelected. If she is not, Europe will fall apart and then watch gold.

Markets decline when everyone is long, they start to sell, and there is no bid. You simply run out of energy to keep moving in the same direction. Our Energy Model is still showing an overbought position of $332. The peak was September 2011. The entire rally began when our Energy Model turned negative -$30 in April 2010. Gold thus began a rally at the start of the Sovereign Debt Crisis with Greece that month. The correlation of gold to the Sovereign Debt Crisis is 86%. The biggest obstacle right now is the targeting of the gold market by all governments.

Gold will remain the alternative underground medium of exchange, but never the above ground monetary unit. Our biggest danger is the government will just seize records of everyone that sells gold and start their trace. They have already imposed regulations on refiners demanding they track the movement of all gold. France has shut down the gold market prohibiting the purchase of gold for cash. Governments NEED money and they will be very nasty before this whole thing collapses..They just will not go quietly into the light.

We can see that gold has remained confined within the Downtrend Channel on the daily level. It is not likely that we will break the 1532 area just yet. Technical support lies above that area slightly suggesting that we will see a test of that region followed by a bounce. While gold is tired after rallying 13 years, it does not appear to be a bubble. Instead, it will work its way to support. However, the market will have to shake the tree and force a number of people to liquidate before a rally emerges in 2015 into 2021-2022.

The weekly level also shows that gold has remained in an orderly decline so far remaining within the breakline channel. Without a further collapse in the Sovereign Debt Crisis immediately, gold is treading water. It still appears that capital will shift into private assets and this will aid the rise in interest rates in 2013 into 2015. However, it will be the turn in the Economic Confidence Model in 2015 that will bring the curtain down and gold should then rally to new highs going into 2021.