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Living in an urban area I, like many, exercise in the park. I was doing so before the pandemic started and I have continued. My local park is big and beautiful and is seeing a higher level of use now that the gyms are closed. It feels safe and reasonable except for one thing: the runners who brush past on the paved trails. They are too close; many runners are making no effort to distance from others who use the same trails. This is not good enough.
Runners, please run farther away from the other people who use public trails. In most cases you can run off trail to give people, especially elders, a wide berth. Consider it part of your workout. Elders are much less able to avoid you than you are to avoid them. Running up behind people does not give them an opportunity to avoid you. There are sections of trail that are restricted in width--you can choose different routes. Some runners have taken to running on sidewalks and side streets to avoid too-close pedestrians. This is reasonable and appreciated, and might make it possible for you to enter that thoughtless consciousness that some runners enjoy.
If you are young or Republican and "not worried" about the virus, that does not make it acceptable for you to frighten or expose others. A certain amount of kindness is expected just because you are part of the human family. Thoughtlessness and selfishness are not admirable, and I don't think anyone wants to be that way. We all have the potential to be better than that, to be conscientious and caring in our interactions with each other. So please, runners, take the extra steps to let all people have a minimum of six feet distance, no matter who they are. I for one thank you for this kindness.
Contemporary Western postural yoga projects an authenticity and unbroken ancient heritage onto the yogic tradition, while mourning the commodification, secularization and denuding of that tradition by the West. Such lamentation belies the fact that modern postural yoga is a creature of fabrication and reinvention.
--Farah Godrej
EDIT: I did listen to one lecture per day, or at least part of each one. Genetics and Epigenetics since it became a thing have been an interest of mine. The programs were oriented at the general public, and I garnered no new information. I was hoping that it would go a little deeper and nerdier for me. Would be very useful for folks who are just getting introduced to the significance of modern science with regard to their genetic makeup and health. Lots of correlates. Very interesting.
The funny thing is that the clinicians all say the same thing, that your SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms) for the most part won't do you harm if you keep your general level of physical health strong. There's a lot of redundancy build into human genetics and systems. If someone forgets to cross a T somewhere in your genetics, you'll probably be fine, long as you don't wear yourself to a frazzle, skip sleep, and consider trips to the refrigerator to be adequate exercise.
During the course of a five-year, $230 million effort, the participants will share data in regular conference calls and meetings, working together to determine which findings are likely to lead to effective treatments. They will make their findings and data publicly available.
...What concerns me about this is the emphasis on drugs. There are better ways to adjust physiology than taking in foreign substances. And there are more useful things we could study. Like food, and exercise, and how to they affect our biochemical and electrical mileau. Sex, we should throw more money at studying sex and how it affects neurotransmitters. On the effects of chewing gum and on understanding the endocrinology of sexual preference. And on why our hearts slow down as we age, and a million other questions. I'm just curious: I really want to know the answers. I wish that the money spent on medical research was directed more by altruism and less by profit motive.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/05/health/nih-joins-drug-makers-and-nonprofits-on-stubborn-diseases.html
Great to hear a conventional oncologist going over the recent research and saying that doctors should suggest walking instead of chemo for cancer patients. But guess what: it's more effective. So getcha some sneaks and get out there. And get a dog: it will MAKE you walk.
http://fitness.mercola.com/sites/fitness/archive/2012/03/30/hand-cooling-device-for-effective-workout.aspx?e_cid=20120330_FNL_art_1
You can check out the progress of America's increasing BMI by state, since 1985, on this govt page. The South leads the charge.
Colorado is the Rocky Mountain holdout but they are sliding too.
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