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Life in the Slow Lane: Slow Food Winter
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Life in the Slow Lane. Our attempt to live more in the moment. Friday, 6 June 2008. David and I belong to Slow Food Southwest - a movement that started in Italy in 1989 in opposition to fast food. There are groups of like-minded people (or convivia) all over the world that embrace the philosophy of slow food - food that is seasonal, sourced locally and lovingly cooked using age-old recipes and methods that have been passed down through the generations. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Life in the Slow Lane: July 2008
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Life in the Slow Lane. Our attempt to live more in the moment. Thursday, 24 July 2008. Anxiety - a modern illness? We came across this quote recently:. Anxiety is one of the greatest of modern ills. And it flourishes most in the fat. Soil of security. It is a middle-class disease, endemic in those countries which. Enjoy the highest standards of living and the greatest stability. We have. Banished fear, which is a healthy emotion, only to admit anxiety, which is a. For mere fear.". Now more than ever anxi...
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Life in the Slow Lane: Anxiety - a modern illness?
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Life in the Slow Lane. Our attempt to live more in the moment. Thursday, 24 July 2008. Anxiety - a modern illness? We came across this quote recently:. Anxiety is one of the greatest of modern ills. And it flourishes most in the fat. Soil of security. It is a middle-class disease, endemic in those countries which. Enjoy the highest standards of living and the greatest stability. We have. Banished fear, which is a healthy emotion, only to admit anxiety, which is a. For mere fear.". Now more than ever anxi...
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Life in the Slow Lane: October 2008
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Life in the Slow Lane. Our attempt to live more in the moment. Tuesday, 7 October 2008. The Notion of Fair Trade. In our ever-increasing busy lives not many of us stop and think about where our food comes from; whether a fair price has been paid to the producer of that food or if anyone has been exploited in the process of getting that food to our table. This me with Henry Arme who is from the Purosa region of Papua New Guinea. In Africa 1 cup of coffee costs 1 birr (US$0.12). So out of that $230.00,...
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TPT FITNESS: Pretend Play for Youth Fitness
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IYCA Youth Fitness Specialist. Pretend Play for Youth Fitness. This subject can actually get quite complex, because we are delving into the inner workings of the developing brain, with billions of neurons. However, as much as we have to learn, we do know some things. I will try to break down this subject of how pretend can be beneficial for development. Why are our brains wired to do this if it is so devoid of value? Well, cognitive researchers have, and the findings are interesting:. 2) Pretense can dev...
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TPT FITNESS: Decelerate To Go Faster?
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IYCA Youth Fitness Specialist. Decelerate To Go Faster? Why is it that some kids who are really fairly slow in sprinting but can move so quick on the court? The reason is they have the ability to control their bodies when changing direction better than the rest. In order to accomplish this mind set we need to educate our athletes on how to decelerate with a purpose and change direction better. Here are some random pointers:. 4 Be certain that they have adequate ankle dorsi-flexion and can load the ankle ...
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TPT FITNESS: 10/09/08
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IYCA Youth Fitness Specialist. Top 10 tips for better running technique. Relax – it’s impossible to run well if you aren’t relaxed. Pay attention to common tension sites, including the hands (unclench those fists), the jaw and forehead, and the shoulders. Research shows that when we clench the jaw, neural signals are sent along the spinal cord, causing us to ‘brace’ our posture and tense up. Your head weighs approximately 7-10 lbs (depending on how clever you are! Run light – think of running over ...
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TPT FITNESS: Why running shoes dont work
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IYCA Youth Fitness Specialist. Why running shoes dont work. Running shoes do not work: Looking at Pronation, Cushioning, Motion Control and. The running shoe model needs to be fixed. Pronation, Motion. Control, Cushioning, and Stability shoes? Get rid of them all. It’s not just barefoot running and minimalism versus running shoes, the. Either/or situation many portray it to be. It’s much deeper than that. It’s not. Even that running shoe companies are evil and out to make a profit. Shoe. Constructed as t...
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TPT FITNESS: 06/11/09
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IYCA Youth Fitness Specialist. From a study published in the Swimming Science Bulletin. Authored by Brent S. Rushall and John Marsden. The question of whether (young athletes) should specialize in particular sports at an early age have been asked for many years. The evidence now seems to support programming activities that develop overall capacities rather than specialized functions while the young athlete is growing.". All sports require high degree of skill for superior performance. The major empha...
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TPT FITNESS: 05/02/09
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IYCA Youth Fitness Specialist. 1 Constantly educate yourself and apply what you learn. Kind of self-explanatory really. It's a pity people choose not to learn. 2 Listen to your body. Sometimes it's the only one who knows what you need. It's a great teacher but are you a good student? 3 Eat for health not pleasure. No, this doesn't mean you can't enjoy food, it means don't be a pig. It means have a healthy relationship with food. Don't reward, motivate or medicate with food. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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