I wanted to thank everyone for their contributions to the blog yesterday and a special thank you to DR for sharing with us her experience with helping an elderly stranger. As the society ages this problem will no doubt become more common. There was some really good advise in the comments so if you haven't read the comments from yesterday's post please do.
Today we are talking frogs. They might be able to keep the earth from shaking:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100331/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_trembling_toads
Are you going to rush out right now and buy a pet toad?
Next up is a very troubling article about the risks women take with dieting. Is this the Americanization of Asia?
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/weightloss/2010-03-30-skinnyasianwomen30_CV_N.htm
As always I am looking forward to your input.
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Can't comment much because I'm off to buy a toad. {g}
Actually, that's very interesting. While I've heard all sorts of reports of animals sensing quakes, they were only anecdotal, and my dogs never had a clue. I hope further research proves that toads are more in touch with earth movement.
The other article is also interesting. Seems that the U.S. is currently obsessed with obesity while Asia is obsessed with becoming too thin. When they ate their traditional diet, I don't think they had this problem, so maybe we're responsible since we've exported McDonald's and Cokes and who knows what else?
Dieting, first. I think it a true shame that we continue to judge people on appearance, particularly where "thin" and "attractive" are interchangeable for women and drive many to poor health. While obesity is constantly increasing, there is still the image of thin as being the perfect standard. Remember Twiggy? Did we push too hard, too long, on thin, resulting in the pendulum swing to obesity, since few women could/can attain the "ideal" featured in magazine and ads and in the media? Most Asian women I've seen, either personally or in media, are slim to thin. I never realized the driving force behind it.
Pat has a point -- when they ate their traditional diet, and lived their traditional lifestyle, most of them were thin. If you go back forty or fifty years in the US, much the same is true. We were eating a different diet - basic foods, not a lot of sauces, not a lot of prepared foods, etc. In addition, we were much more active - farmers, of course, but people mowed their own lawns, did their own yard work and housework, kids played outside, rode bikes in the neighborhood and to school. We weren't all sitting at desks, then sitting at the table, then sitting in front of the television and/or computer.
As to the frogs... I suspect it will be some time before there's enough solid research for us to rely on critters for forecasting. However, as I recall, there were reports after the horrible tsunami that observers noticed animals (more than one, but I can't remember what they were) leaving the shore and lower areas and going to higher ground in huge numbers. The same questions were raised -- did the animals have some instinctive warning system?
Hi Pat
Hope you got a good frog!
I also hope they keep on researching and can find anything that will predict earthquakes whether animal or human.
Interesting comment about their own diet. There were never overweight Asians before unless the Sumi wrestlers or Samuri. Maybe the U. S. corporations do have some responsibility for this.
Bill
Hi DR
It is atrocious that we still judge people by appearance. I've always told my men friend, you can get a new hairstyle, you can get an education, you can lose weight, but you can't change your character. To me it is just a basic rule of life. I disliked Twiggy immensely because of what she stood for and if I remember right she wasn't all that smart.
Interest points about the US fort years ago and how farmers worked back then. And I also remember how many road side stands there were selling fruits and veggies fresh out the ground and not processed with chemicals.
When Katie was alive we had an earthguake. About an hour before the quake to took off and run around the house until I opend the basement door then she went down there and found a safe place. A few minutes after the quake she was back upstairs sitting in my lap.
Bill
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