Posted on 11/09/2005 6:55:21 AM PST by laney
I quit doing Bikram yoga, just light stress yoga. The sciatica has gone away. I've also worked on my stomach muscles,which has helped...and lost a ton of weight.
Yoga is one of the best types of exercise for stress.
yoga is excellent. Pilotes (sp) is excellent, too!
keeps me long and lean and very limber for a 51 year old woman.
I started doing pilates and I LOVE it. It's gives you that nice lean,limber look. I'll bet you look good too. My goal is to look better at fifty years around the sun than when I was going into the military.
keep a good fighting weight, eh? I'm working on getting back to my fighting weight - in middle age. It's a trip!
Not quite. More like a Burbspiritual. And for all I know, a Burbsexual too.
Heck, I gotta read that list again, I think Mrs. Cowhand might be a Retrosexual too.
LOL! :D ...just give them "the recycled" (earth-friendly :) carboard box, to eat and charge the hell out 'em...its' less expensive.
It's also a plus for the farmer or other farm workers to not have to be exposed to really toxic crap.
If everybody ate "organic" food we'd starve to death. Yields are low and land use would need to increase dramatically. As would labor dedicated to farming.
It would be a giant step backwards for civilzation.
SD
They're always doing this. They don't want to feel alone and vulnerable, which is how they feel. They want to feel like they're part of a mightly, phalanx of NORMAL people, marching through society and through time.
But that's tough when you're less than 1% of the population. That's like being a militant ferret owner, or a really involved Polka music enthusiast. There just ain't that many...
The strategy:
People already have the idea that Metrosexual = GAY, which is mostly true. But now they're switching stuff around to increase "their" numbers:
Like Yoga? You're metro. Like organic food? Metro...!
Hey, wow! Look at all these METRO people! You mean you're NOT metro...?! Gosh, get with it and give me your phone number...!
You scored 8, on a scale of 0 to 36. Here's how to interpret your score:
0 - 9
You are not at all metrospiritual. You probably don't live in a city, and your religious life much more rooted in traditional forms and practices than in lifestyle and consumer choices. You model your values on what's most important to you, not on what celebrities are promoting, and you don't stay up to date with the latest trends.
Cool.
I'm a barbarian....:)
This is my results...
"You are not at all metrospiritual. You probably don't live in a city, and your religious life much more rooted in traditional forms and practices than in lifestyle and consumer choices. You model your values on what's most important to you, not on what celebrities are promoting, and you don't stay up to date with the latest trends."
Disagree. If more people were involved in farming, they'd have jobs at least. Organic farming doesn't have to be more expensive, chemicals ain't free and a lot of them ain't cheap. I don't know if you've done a lot of studying up about it, but I have.
Also, yeilds aren't necessarily worse. Bugs get used to pesticides for one thing. I've read articles by midwestern, non-hippie farmers who noticed their animals sickening more, soil less fertile, holding less moisture, not feeling well after messing around with ag chemicals, and so on. They switched to organic farming methods and noticed huge improvements in every aspect.
Many ag chemicals - especially pesticides - were developed by the Germans for chemical warfare. Have you ever done research about Parathion and Malathion - organophosphates? I have. They are not mellow harmless chemicals. I used to know someone who sprayed Parathion regularly. The previous fellow almost died and had to spend time in a hospital.
I've noticed a big difference eating all organic food and not. Can't afford it now; it is more expensive and some places, hard to get.
The idea that people would starve to death if more food was grown organically is a childish myth.
Ahhhhh...must be the Welsh genes in us!
I love Trader Joe's. Watch for the stilton cheese with cranberries during the holidays. To DIE for!
You got that right. Tried it for the first time three weeks ago. Its incredible. Goes good with three buck chuck Sav Blanc.
It's up to three dollars now? I remember when it was two buck chuck.
Two buck chuck in California, three buck chuck in Washington State.
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