Fitness and Nutrition

[madupont]

The chakras are there merely for alignment lest you collapse into a puddle of Nothingness of which you are.

We aligned ours every morning  rocking into a lotus position, unfolded in accordance with their relationship, and got up in dance as somebody, whom Martha had taught, taught us. A lot of people believe she learned it from Mary Wigman and the German modernists; but secretly, it is obvious, she didn't want it bruited about that she learned it from Ruth St.Denis.   I did Ruth St.Denis for high school assembly much to everybody's shock, when I was age thirteen.   It is called nautch dancing; and just as the chakras are the vertebral, the jointed limbs are articulated. They make it interesting although the articulation of the vertebral alignment makes the dance nautch.

[knoxharrington]

Moon boots and a winch are all you need.

I would like to know why "sex at noon taxes."  Aside from the palindrome.

[barton]

Probably that most schedules don't allow much of a nap afterwards?  The sudden drop in hormone levels seems to invite the body to rest for a time and bask in afterglow.

[knoxharrington]

Makes sense.  A person has to get past the locker room boasting to get to the truth.

I'm wondering if eggs are bad lately.  I eat mostly plant-based food, but sometimes have a couple eggs.  But I'm not that fond of eggs and sometimes I get this kind of congested feeling in my head after eating them and they seem hard to digest.  Food allergy?  I've heard they might not be good for arthritis or gout -- maybe that was chatted about here a while back, over in food matters thread.

[oilcanbody]

I like to get naked and touch myself.

[barton]

Is your body actually shaped like an oil drum?

[madupont]

 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1203343/JOANNA-BLYTHMAN-A-cancerous-conspiracy-poison-faith-organic-food.html

This was forwarded to me by mail when they obtained my address from SheepGrove Organic Farm in the UK which is a beautiful place, doing a great job but when the daily mail,above, refers to them as Sheepdrove, then I just read the article and let it go at that. Originally Ms.Blythman printed a list of claims about the difference that exist in benefit derived from organic as compared to chemically treated and I believe there is a difference, I just don't know if her figures on percentages is any better than her spelling of her organic source material. She may have been a visitor to SheepGrove for one of their conferences.

When I have a minute perhaps I can give a contact there so you can find out about the work they are doing under ideal condition

[Donotremove]

Maddy, "you are what you eat" and we are eating chemicals out the wazoo, killing ourselves and our planet.

[madupont]

not if I can help it! I've been at this for a long time. Probably started with my in-laws who had very religious ideas about food.  Practically Pythagorean? (probably not but you never know). My sister-in-law (we are of the same generation) still "kids" me, although actually it is almost snide, that she doesn't worry about all the modern problems people are having with  contaminants causing diseases because she never eats meat. Ah, well, there is always something. It seems very similar to the plagues of Egypt.

(I'm laughing a little at this point, as I've just been watching,as those very usual high-toned English accents from the archaeologists explaining Egyptian sex customs and pornography, the young lady specialists in this field have the worst time of it remaining unrattled as they illuminate all the various art forms, imagery, sculpture, music,dance,poetry revealing the erotic. What else does one do on a Friday night on the History channel?)

[barton]

This is a really useful website:

http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/DSH/glucosamine.html

[knoxharrington]

Since those bottles of glucosamine are friggin expensive, I'm glad to hear they are also useless and I needn't spend my money.

Is it true that taking a walk in a cemetery on Jan. 1 of the year will result in you dying during the year?

[Donotremove]

There's a lot of buzz about the benefits of eating grape skins. The pill people have even put the essence of grape skin into a pill (or, I saw on one web site, a powder) so you can forgo going to the store every few days for real grapes. I like seedless grapes, but when I get the ones with seeds I eat the seeds too.

Money, money, money. The pills cost anywhere from about $7 (mail order) up to about $18 in stores for a thirty day supply.

The is an oil made from grape seeds. I wonder if I get any benefit from frying with it?

[madupont]

Donotremove,
Yes, you use very little. Equally good as salad dressing but nowadays, this summer at least, very little is needed when the tomatoes are this fresh, coarse salt is about it and of course black pepper freshly ground but you can snip basil from rolled  up leaves which a scissors cuts into ribbons. 

I just cleaned out the old leaves from the tomato plants after the intense rain of this past week;gave them about a day at least to dry, then it rained again but the autumn sun seems to dry the soil out faster. So tomorrow, I will feed them again.  This is all in hopes of growing a few more before giving up for the season: Will there be Indian Summer?

I'm having a nice crop of beans which they insist on calling "miniature vegetables" in the supermarket which should never package them, as they should be used within just a few days as you pick the vines in a combo of yellow "Pencil" beans and Green Filet Pole beans. When you plant them, you have no idea whether you will have yellow or green or how many of each. They came out just fine. If you use them for salad, a little mustard is added to the grapeseed oil, after they have been blanched or cooked a few minutes, and the cooking stopped by lifting them from the hot water and dipping them into cold running water or ice cubes before chilling in the refrigerator. The question whether you put them in salad dressing immediately or not? That's up to you but cider vinegar added to the grapeseed oil and tad of mustard is about right. Some people like small bits of onion added to this dressing, particularly red onion or shallots.

[madupont]

Since those bottles of glucosamine are friggin expensive, I'm glad to hear they are also useless and I needn't spend my money.

Is it true that taking a walk in a cemetery on Jan. 1 of the year will result in you dying during the year?

Gee, I hope not but I've never entertained the notion although in the last few days I did see somebody running through the Mennonite cemetery at Landis Valley and Oregon Pike; and, thought I saw a dog bobbing up and down. The runner had the dog on a leash which apparently in this situation was a device for picking up your pace and thus unlikely to be dead next year by September.

What I do know is that four days or four nights from now is Rosh Hoshanah or, New Year for Autumn(or, Head of the Year); and if you are not entered into the Book of Life before the end of ten days or Yom Kippur, when the Orthodox sit shiva in mourning for those who have died (or, those whom they are not talking to anymore for not doing things their way), you might as well be.  Originally, the Day of Atonement, you learn that the emphasis is put on the ideal of At-One-Ment.  Originally a compromise was reached by sending out a Scape Goat into the wilderness as a sacrifice (this reverberates with other images and accounts of historicity that are relatively unpleasant).

I once tried to explain all this to the Mom of our childhood household who had inadvertently become a Jewish Mother along the way and found it rather confusing, after my younger sister educated by Dominican nuns became converted to Judaism.  She has since unconverted although now a Jewish grandmother.

Frankly, I would not have understood any of this if not for Rod Steiger making a movie,The Pawnbroker, which was so popular it started a trend for dual religious affiliations  among people who had gone to public school together, or were just neighbors/ and got tired of the discriminatory attitude at their college prep school over that generation. Although in all likelihood they would have taken a pass on inviting Bernadine Dohrn but then this is probably not entirely odd when you consider her name was Bernadine Rae Ohrnstein and you ask yourself would you invite her to your Christmas party to which you had invited your classmates?

Apparently, she was not well liked by the time my sisters were in high-school. A bit of a pill in a wool tartan skirt and a matching sweater set with shoulder length dark hair. I don't know as a matter of fact why that particular style remained the popular image decade after decade after decade in suburban high schools.

[barton]

Grapes are big these days -- red grapes are supposed to have resveratrol, the latest longevity fad, and like most fads, based on scanty clinical evidence.  I'm seeing ads for pills with the same quantity of resveratrol as found in 278 bottles of wine -- apparently, you need a lot of it to do any good, yet the ads usually say "this is why the French are so healthy" -- and you think, "really?  people in France are drinking 278 bottles of wine per day?  And prolonging their lives doing so?"  I just figured it was their having a 30 hour work week, six weeks of paid vacation, the long lunches, the generally unhurried attitude, etc.

The only fad that has emerged, for me, as the real deal, is the effect of omega-3 fatty acids -- I've noticed a real decrease in arthritis twinges when I load up on omega-3s every day.  It's anti-inflammatory value (among many) seems to be pretty well documented.  I'm not that big on fish, but I buy a boxed couscous that has flaxseed added to boost the O-3 content.   And eat a handful of walnuts pretty often.