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I dare you to watch this video without wanting to get up and do something active.
There are a few particularly cool scenes:
The description of the video is humbly listed as:
Playing around with some new moves for 2009.
My description would have been.
Super-human feats of gymnastics! Do not try at home!
Next time you’re feeling a little down and not wanting to workout out, watch this quick video and get inspired to MOVE!!
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I watched a couple of videos last week that really inspired me to eat healthy and exercise right now.
The first video is a talk by Alan Russell about medicine and the upcoming methods of making our bodies healthy again with regenerative medicine.
He said:
The richer we are, the longer we live. The older our population, the more expensive the diseases are to treat.
Diabetes is a debilitating disease. Why can’t we inject the pancreas with something that regenerates the pancreas and cures Diabetes?
We are learning how to switch on feature that our bodies could do when we were a fetus. A mammalian fetus, if it loses a limb in the first trimester of pregnancy, will regrow that limb. Our DNA has the capacity to do these sort of wound healing mechanisms.
In the future, medicine will be able to regenerate our bodies. This talk from Aubrey de Grey about how medicine could eventually get to the point where we could actually live forever.
It’s VERY important that we take the BEST care of our bodies now so that we can be the people who are able to take advantage of these technologies when they finally become available to all of us.
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Here is an interesting talk from Ann Cooper, The Renegade Lunch Lady, from Berkley, California.
She says:
We are feeding our kids to death.
The USDA cannot be the be all and end all of what we feed our kids. We cannot believe that they have our best interests at heart.
We are responsible, but big companies are ALSO responsible for what kids eat.
We have to teach kids that Coke and Pop Tarts is not breakfast. If they eat a diet of sugar, then they’ll go up and down like a crack addict.
We have to teach people to cook again.
One gourmet coffee costs more than what we spend on school lunch for kids for a WEEK.
She talks about the Farm to School Project. Here is a link to them to see if they are in your area.
Here is her list of food guidelines for her school district:
Chef Ann Cooper : Food Guidelines
I just found a new webcomic that looks promising. It certainly started out with a bang. Edmund Finney met some aliens on his search for the meaning of life.
Why are the aliens a little pudgier than we normally envision them? What consists of their very filling diet? Click on the comic to see!
Thank you, D. Long for the fun look at Edmund and his search for the meaning of life.
I loved this BRILLIANT speech by Joachim de Posada at the Ted Conference. This video is less than six minutes long and worth every second, especially the funny clips of four year old children trying their best not to eat a marshmallow.
A study at Stanford put four year old children alone in a room with a marshmallow. They were told that if they could last fifteen minutes without eating the marshmallow, then they would get to keep it to eat and get ANOTHER one. Two out of three children ate the marshmallow the second the door was closed. One out of three children were able to wait the fifteen minutes in order to get the double reward.
Fourteen years later, Stanford tracked down the children from this study and rated their success at school and socially. The children who were able to last the fifteen minutes without eating the marshmallow were FAR more successful in life than the others. They were able to delay gratification to get a better reward.
Delaying gratification is what eating healthy and exercising is all about. We are willing to eat simple and healthy food and sweat a little bit every day so that we can get the better reward of being healthy, slim and strong.
The next time you’re tempted to eat something that you know isn’t healthy for you, think about Joachim de Posada. The next time you’re thinking about blowing off your daily workout, remember that little girl who ate the middle out of the marshmallow to make the researcher think that she hadn’t eaten it. The only way to have a svelte and strong body is to do the things that svelte and strong people do.
Don’t eat the marshmallow. You deserve so much more.
I just saw this commercial for Pepsi Throwback.
The reason why this soda is supposed to be better than normal Pepsi is because it is made with cane sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup. They aren’t saying that it’s healthier than normal Pepsi, but there are a lot of people out there who believe it is:
Yes, sugar is made up of glucose, which is easier to digest and metabolize. High fructose corn syrup has been altered to increase the fructose and decrease the glucose. The body doesn’t metabolize fructose as easily as glucose; it metabolizes it more like fat. The natural fructose in fruit is counterbalanced by the fiber but this is generally not present in foods with high fructose corn syrup. For this reason the blood sugar level goes much higher, especially if drinking high fructose corn syrup. This can lead to obesity, diabetes and poor digestion.
Authors: Heather Basciano, Lisa Federico and Khosrow Adeli of the Clinical Biochemistry Division, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Published in the journal: “Nutrition & Metabolism”, February 21, 2005.
In the end, however, it all comes down to calories. There are EXACTLY the same amount of calories in a Pepsi Throwback as there are in a regular old Pepsi. Some people might think it tastes better than HCFS, but you can’t get me to believe that 100 calories of regular soda is going to make me fatter than 100 calories of cane sugar soda.
Via: Go Retro!: Throw Back Some Pepsi Throwback
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