On The Road Again
In the middle of about three weeks of travel again so I probably won’t get a chance to surf the web as much as usual and point to the odd articles I want to remember. Of course all depends on whether the hotel has internet. The Marriott Courtyard in Houston (Dallas St.) has free high speed, no hassle, no sign up. Every hotel should do this, and I wish I had the time to run a very simple site that would just tell you what kind of internet service the rooms in hotels actually have. The google adwords would probably pay for it.
Derek linked to The Way We Eat Now, an article in Harvard magazine about fast food industry we live in…the byline is, “Ancient bodies collide with modern technology to produce a flabby, disease-ridden populace.”. Scary article. Summary quote…
“In sum, we no longer live like hunter-gatherers, but we still have hunter-gatherer genes. Humans evolved in a state of ceaseless physical activity; they ate seasonally, since there was no other choice; and frequently there was nothing to eat at all. To get through hard winters and famines, the human body evolved a brilliant mechanism of storing energy in fat cells. The problem, for most of humanity’s time on Earth, has been a scarcity of calories, not a surfeit. Our fat-storage mechanism worked beautifully until 50 to 100 years ago. But since then, “The speed of environmental change has far surpassed our ability to adapt,” says Dun Gifford of Oldways. Our bodies were not designed to handle so much caloric input and so little energy outflow. “There are many forces,” Willett says, “and all are pushing in the wrong direction simultaneously.”