The big food companies with their manipulative ads, additives and genetic modifications have done us no favors. We need to get back to basics and grow our own food, raise our own chickens, and raise our livestock.
If any of you think the USA has changed for the better over the last 50 years, I suggest you look at photos of small town street scenes from the 50s and 60s and compare them to today.
The condition and upkeep of the buildings was much better. The people on the street were well dressed, trim and looked successful and the towns looked vibrant. Compare almost any average town of that period with 2011.
Today the people are overweight, covered in tattoos, the buildings are not cared for and the jobs are all in China. Towns used to have factories that employed people in real jobs. The problem is a US Congress that works for lobbyists and their reelections and not Americans. Divisive politics is the symptom not the solution.
As part of a club I belong to we have guests that come to lecture/pass information. This month we have some one coming in to discuss nutrition. I am waiting for the “low fat” line.
I have been using rendered duck fat (almost non-exsistent in American cooking), butter, olive oil, lard and have kept to full fat dairy. Used properly they help digest fat soluble vitamins and are appetite killers.
It sounds hippy/dippy but I have seriously considered joining a CSA to get food. The fall/winter Kale is almost ready to plant and I am sowing the spinach seeds as soon as I get new rabbit fencing.
*****The people on the street were well dressed, trim and looked successful*****
I am a 41 YO homemaker. My youngest just turned 18. I am, just now, learning how to dress, style hair and move.
Back in the day, it was part of a young woman’s upbringing to learn these things. Wearing makeup and styling hair is a skill, like any other. Girls now days are left to their own devices and there are thousands of terrible examples for them to chose from.
When they turn to the ‘professionals’ and try to ape what they see in magazines, they’re left overwhelmed with unrealistic expectations. The photos are all Photoshopped and they may as well be drawings.
Over the last month, I’ve been learning how to cross my legs, walk in heels (it’s a heck of a lot more complicated than people realize), and sit and stand properly. I’m learning how to pose properly (naturally) for a photo. I’ve actually had to take tai chi to learn how to walk and balance. I spend an hour a day ‘heel training’ and have to do stretching exercises for my arches twice a day. Even leg crossing has become an issue and I’ve had to do special stretching exercises to gain enough flexibility in my hips to pull it off right. (I’m up to 20 minutes at a time, with right over left. I can only manage 5 minutes with left over right.)
Learning how to dress in a way that’s appropriate for my age and body type has been *very* hard. I have an appointment to learn how to do makeup and skin care.
Women who do these things well make it look easy and natural. A girl who doesn’t get it, will feel like she just can’t do it and give up. ‘It’s just not me. I’m not pretty enough. I don’t have natural beauty and grace.’
Well, honey, nobody is born with it.
When she does put forth effort, she feels let down because she’s never going to be that pretty. Girls need to learn how to be *their* personal best and how to work with what G-d gave them.
I firmly believe that there should be a class for young people in high school to teach them these basic things. I wish we’d bring back ‘finishing schools’ for girls. Heck, I’d have paid for it. I’d pay for it now.
The sad thing is that, as I didn’t know these things, I couldn’t teach my daughter. Now the two of us are breaking through this together. At least she’s learning at 20 instead of 40.
So don’t judge young people who move and look wrong too harshly. If a person isn’t taught, they can’t know.