With a nod (a perhaps a wink) to Elizabeth Gilbert, here are three totally related and intertwined articles that appeared today in three difference periodicals. I will refrain
from knee-jerk reactions to them as the commentators all seem to have taken care of that for me. It is truly comical to see how people defend their actions, and therefore their limitations, by assigning blame to others, in these cases, governments, doctors, scientists, runners, nutritionists, carnivores, politicians, cyclists, USDA, FDIC, NASDAQ, USO, NAACP, NCAA, IOC, or, essentially anybody who might possibly be a target for their pathological inability to accept personal responsibility.Here it is folks: Run more, eat better or PAY up.
On running more from the SF Chronicle:
The health improvements don't just apply to runners - any sort of regular aerobic activity helps, and the more hours people put in, the more benefits they'll see, Williams said.
On eating better from Tree Hugger:
3. Eating meat spews more emissions than our cars, trains, and planes combined.
On health care costs as a result of NOT running more or eating better from the LA Times:
Michael Kellner, a trim, 37-year-old public relations professional who lives in San Francisco, is among the disgusted: "I am completely and utterly frustrated with rising healthcare costs due to the deluge of fat Americans taxing the healthcare system. I'm in shape and have been all my life because I don't soothe myself with food all day." He's not alone in his opinion.
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Let me toss into the fray yet one more piece of the big picture: corn. Corn, as in agribusiness corn. There is so much of it that its byproducts have infiltrated into so much of our food supply it has left most of us in bad shape. See The Omnivore's Dillemma by Michael Pollan:
The omnivore’s dilemma has returned with a vengeance, as the cornucopia of the modern American supermarket and fast-food outlet confronts us with a bewildering and treacherous food landscape. What’s at stake in our eating choices is not only our own and our children’s health, but the health of the environment that sustains life on earth.
Zactly. Everybody glazes over when I use the term 'totalitarian agriculture', yet here is another (bad) example. At what point in time did money become God? btw, I just ordered Pollan's latest.
It's all a cabaret, you know.
Money makes the world go around
The world go around
The world go around
Money makes the world go around
It makes the world go 'round.
A mark, a yen, a buck, or a pound
A buck or a pound
A buck or a pound
Is all that makes the world go around,
That clinking clanking sound
Can make the world go 'round.
Money money money money money money
Money money money money money money
Money money money money money money
Money money
If you happen To be rich,
And you feel like a
Night's enetertainment
You can pay for a
Gay escapade.
If you happen To be rich,
And alone, and you
Need a companion
You can ring-ting-A-ling
for the maid.
If you happen To be rich
And you find you are
Left by your lover,
Though you moan and you groan
Quite a lot,
You can take it On the chin,
Call a cab, And begin
To recover
On your fourteen-Carat yacht.
Money makes the world go around,
The world go around,
The world go around,
Money makes the world go around,
Of that we can be sure.
(....) on being poor.
Money money money- money money money
Money money money- Money money money
Money money money money money money
Money money money money money money
Money money money money money money
If you haven't any coal in the stove
And you freeze in the winter
And you curse on the wind
At your fate
When you haven't any shoes
On your feet
And your coat's thin as paper
And you look thirty pounds
Underweight.
When you go to get a word of advice
From the fat little pastor
He will tell you to love evermore.
But when hunger comes a rap,
Rat-a-tat, rat-a-tat at the window...
At the window...
Who's there?
Hunger!
Ooh, hunger!
See how love flies out the door...For
Money makes The world...
...Go around
The world...
...Go around
The world...
...Go around
Money makes the
The world...
...Go around
That clinking
Clanking sound of
Money money money money money money
Money money money money money money
Get a little,
Money money
Get a little,
Money money
Money money
Money money
Money money
Money money
Mark, a yen, a buck
Get a little
Or a pound
Get a little
That clinking clanking
Get a little
Get a little
Clinking sound
Money money
Money money...
Is all that makes
The world go 'round
Money money
Money money
It makes the world go round!
music to my fears....
My copy of LA Magazine this month has an article in it that says if you eat only raw fruit and veggies you'll have great skin, overall health and a bouncy personality. But there has got to be some major downsides. Is health and longevity the ultimate goal here? And, what about the multi-billion dollar exercise industry?
Combination of the two my friend, ying and yang, pane e vino, diet AND exercise, or in FW's musical example, money and money.
Some people might say that a bouncy personality is a major downside.
Bada boom.
Just live well.
Or to channel Michael Pollan:
Eat food. Mostly plants. Not too much.
yeah, bouncy sounds a little suspect. I just want to be BAD (meaning killer) and I guess you guys are helping me get there. Ashley too at 8:45 today.
Beauty, bouncy, BAD, balanced....all in the eye of the beholder.
Right, what is this the Zen of fitness blogs? or what
Ouch, but nice call, I like that, thanks.
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