Yesterday and today are introductory articles to this series on Movement and Exercise - the theme of this entire series on movement is that movement is an essential key to healthy and happy living, and to living a [Read more...]
Archives for October 2009
Movement: A Key to a Healthy, Happy Life: Part 1
For the next few weeks I will be writing about the subject of Movement. Movement comes in all shapes and sizes, but the common unifying denominator of it is that it is an essential part of living a healthy, happy and fulfilled life. It is also an important ingredient for living a Low Density Lifestyle. The inverse of that is that a sedentary life … [Read more...]
Meat – As You’ve Never Seen It Before
For this last article on this weeks-long series on Meat, I'm going to take you on a tour the likes of which you've never seen before. You may never look at a piece of meat the same way ever, ever again. These are macrophotographs of various popular meat products. These photographs come courtesy of photographer [Read more...]
Where’s the Protein? Where’s the Beef?: Part 2
I will now continue from yesterday's article, which was Part 1 of this two-part series. In that article I discussed what are … [Read more...]
Where’s the Protein? Where’s the Beef?: Part 1
Yesterday's article was about vegan bodybuilder Kenneth Williams, and his busting of the myth that in order to build muscle and be an athlete you need to eat animal protein. I wrote this article not necessarily to encourage you to become vegetarian … [Read more...]
Can You Build Muscle Without Meat?
There's this belief that to build muscle you have to eat meat, and to build lots of muscle, you have to eat lots of meat. "There's no way you can be a pro bodybuilder without meat. I've never heard of anyone who doesn't eat protein," says Dexter "The Blade" Jackson, who last year won the premier international bodybuilding championship, Mr. Olympia. Jackson routinely bookends a day of steak and chicken eating with 10 egg whites. ("My metabolism … [Read more...]
The PETA Hijinks
The Sexiest Vegetarian Man Over 50
Yesterday I told you about the organization PETA - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - and the fact that they are known to do various publicity stunts to get their point across. Actually, in yesterday's … [Read more...]