Re: #34154
I liked your rant. I go off on those sometimes, myself!
Well I am completely IN to health, as an interest. But several factors have kept me from actually applying everything I'd like to. Like being a kid with no money (certainly not poor, just my parents didn't want to buy a bunch of gadgets although they did buy a fair share of things like that that I wanted). Or being a college student with no car. Or being a college student in another country where things are hard to find, expensive, and hard to bring back to America. So now that those things are beind me I'm hoping to get set up.
Speaking of the eldest child being smaller, I did hear something about the mother's children after the first being healthier or something, with the mother's body more prepared. Not sure of what. So it could be a nature thing, old fashioned biological stuff with no relevance to today. Or not, no clue.
I also wonder about the effects of people eating so much microwaved food. I am sure most people use the microwave TONS. I won't have one and avoid its use as much as I can. If I'm in a restaurant I usually ask the waitress or chef about if what I want to order will be microwaved, if it will be I change my order to something that won't. Of course you can't always know but I avoid it as much as I can. Anyway, let's face it... something like "Campbell's Soup" isn't healthy anyway, but if you MICROWAVE it, YIKES! Just saw a commercial about microwaving Campbell's Soup, though, with people smiling happily as they enjoyed it. I'm sure tons of people will be eating microwaved soup throughout the winter... along with other microwaved food. Scary thought.
I have a big trampoline that I jump on a lot. I used my aunt and uncle's Nedak rebounder, jumped on it for about 15 minutes, didn't have spaghetti legs when I got off, felt completely normal for a person who has been jumping up and down. Exercised, but not exhausted. I'm not sure about the whole not even jumping up thing, I don't feel like I am doing a thing. I can jump into the air for 15 minutes and it's not really tiring. But I read a great old book I found at a Salvation Army-ish place, written by Al Carter, and I can see the great benefits of rebounding so I definitely want to do it.