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Fox news phoenix did a piece on Kundalini yoga, “The Mother of All Yogas.” They actually did a decent job on it.
I recently explored this business of trans fat and it’s pretty scary. Now I look at the labels on products and am pretty horrified to find how many of them contain this chemically modified fat that is so foreign to the body that it simply ends up as unprocessed fat which clogs the circulatory system.
Here is a very informative site about exactly what hydrogenation of fat is: www.treelight.com. There is also great information there about good fats like coconut and palm kernel oils and why they’re actually good for you.
I came across this following article which is very informative:
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A healthy human diet should consist of a daily intake of water, carbohydrates, protein, fats and vitamins and minerals. Naturally all these have a daily recommended amount for the optimum functioning of our bodily processes. Just as in any other substance abuse, excess intake of fats will result in pathological conditions. Furthermore the result of excess fat intake varies according to the type of fats consumed. This means that there are different types of fats and also not all fats behave similarly in our body.
The major effect of excess trans fat consumption is heart disease. Studies have indicated that an increase of energy intake from the trans fat group increases heart disease risk by 100%! Trans fats develop coronary heart disease by both increasing LDL-cholesterol (bad cholesterol) and lowering HDL-cholesterol (good cholesterol).
Furthermore, excess trans fat intake also may reduce brain and eye functions by interfering with omega 3 fatty acid (another member of the fats group) metabolism that is important in brain and eye function. Trans fats have been linked to the abnormal development of babies in pregnant women who consume this. (more…)
This is an amazing organization and a tremendous idea, let alone a great service to humanity. Heifer International gives you the opportunity to give livestock to communities in need around the world. This helps to end hunger, poverty and disease as it builds community abundance in areas that are impoverished.
It’s a genius idea– There are all different kinds of gifts of various livestock you can give to those in need around the world. You can gift an entire Llama for $150, for example, or if you’re strapped for cash, you can give part of a llama for only $20! Have no fear– the cost of the llama is shared over a bunch of people, it’s not delivered in pieces!
At home in rough, mountainous areas of Latin America, llamas are a blessing to families with limited pasture land because they can eat the scrub vegetation that other domesticated animals won’t eat. Llama droppings help fertilize topsoil — improving crops and reducing erosion.
The gift catalog is really cool– check it out: www.heifer.org
From The New York Times, Online…
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AFTER taking just a handful of yoga classes, Lisa Lew didn’t know the plow from the plank and wasn’t overly impressed with the age-old discipline. Still, she decided to tag along with a co-worker for the first day of a promotion at Levitate Yoga, a Manhattan studio, where students had committed to 21 consecutive days of yoga.
Ms. Lew, a 36-year-old administrator for an investment bank, sweated and stretched through three weeks of poses — all for a promotional price of $120. She fought aches and soreness, got stronger, and afterward she felt reborn: she lost waistline inches, but also shed stress and her tendency to overreact. <more… read the full article>
It’s interesting for me, as someone immersed in the yoga community, to watch how the world is waking up to yoga… especially when mainstream business starts to try and cash in on the upswing of a new thing. Found this article while surfing… from two years ago. Yoga has grown in the mass consciousness exponentially since then. They’ve created a name for a new demographic: “Yoga Mama’s” - young mothers who are basically earth and health conscious and buy more expensive green products.
In Hot Pursuit Of Yoga Mama
She’s busy and choosy. But reach her, and you tap into her network of friends, tooTwo-year-old Casandra King’s bedroom is stocked with products that are very different from those her mother, Julia, had when she was that age. Instead of Johnson & Johnson (JNJ ) Baby Oil and Vaseline (UL ), the Edison (N.J.) toddler gets slathered daily with petroleum-free lotions from California Baby. Her mom pays three times the price of the mass brands. And Casandra’s dresser is filled with organic cotton shirts and pajamas from niche marketers such as Hanna Andersson and Mama’s Earth, which can cost 50% more than clothes from Sears (SHLD ), where Julia’s mother shopped for four kids 35 years ago.
Julia King, 38, is part of an emerging class of women whom marketers call Yoga Mamas. These middle- and upper-income mothers are more style- and brand-conscious than their parents. No matter their income, they spend like lottery winners on their babies and toddlers. In the process, they’re revolutionizing the baby-products market and forcing manufacturers and retailers of all sizes to adjust. Read More…
It’s nice to know who’s marketing to you and that they even have a name for you!
Yoga sweeping the nation and the world as a way to center and find peace from the inside out as well as keep the body fit. More importantly it is providing many in high stress situations and those with post traumatic stress disorder with a way to unload the sub-conscious pain brought on my continual, repetitive stress. (more…)
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