Do you have a healthy outlook ??

Originally posted by Menumorut   While at fruits, vegetables you can describe their taste, is not the same with meat. It has not taste but rather smell and it's attracting rather by some illusive memories about other times you have eaten.

Oh, god no.  My outlook is anything but healthy.  I use to have a very healthy outlook.  Run 2+ hours M-F, playing sports a lot; like the amazing activity known as nordic skiing and in the summer swimming.  Not anymore:   at most two meals a day, usually one, often times at midnight or early morning, very high stress levels, (I think I'm starting to lose my hair from that, though my stress levels are going to remain high for a while yet, unavoidable) practically no excercise, sugar levels dramatically up from previous years.  Because of this I'm now overweight, whereas I use to be in excellent physical condition especially my freshmen year of college; three years ago.  I don't smoke (I'm going to learn to fly before I start smoking) and have only drank a few times in moderation.  (dislike the taste of beer intensely)  Though in time I plan to "recover", thankfully I'm still young, though if this keeps up I'll not be growing very old...

Maybe the problems is in you, not in everybody else.

Edited by Chilbudios - 13-Mar-2008 at 23:47

Originally posted by TheARRGH Humanity is nothing alone.We achieve most things not because we are intelligent, but because we interact with each other. Other people are one of the best things to exist--to not take advantage of that seems rather strange.

Sounds ideologizant, communist even. As we need rest, we need moments of solitude. One can speak about the feeling of solitude only after experienced it.

I don't say we have to live in permanent solitude, like hermits.

How can laughter make you empty inside if real humor happens when you're enjoying yourself and feeling at peace?besides which, the term "empty inside" is ill-defined. What does it mean to you?

Just observe how you feel after you laughted savourously. Exteriorizing yourself means that you loose the internal feelings, which are those that give sense and beauty to life.

Because, personally, it's never helped me feel really fulfilled or at peace--or healthy--to avoid joy or to seclude myself from friends.

Naturaly we are inclined to believe that exterior things are those giving us satisfaction, and is true, but in a larger measure is the interior life, because is inside us, is us, not a sume of visual and auditive images. If you are used to observe how your peace stay or leave from your heart, you would observe that solitude moments combined with the ones with your fellows and family make a good equilibre for a good life.

In addition, health is two things---healthy body and healthy mind. Strength in either department can't make up for deficiency in the other, even if it can have some affect.

Agree.

Exercise exists to assist the "healthy body" side; laughter, happiness, contemplation, meditation, and interaction with true friends are there to help the other side of the equation.

Healthy means only one thing: to feel good. Making sport cann't gives you that because sport is an effort, it consumes you when you are doing it and consumes much of the rest of time because of need of resting. Unforced movement, like walking or anything pleasantful, is better.

Laughting consumes you too. Contemplation, if is not some mind controll thing but simply staying, is not bad but very good. Meditation is distructive because imply some intervention on your own mind or deliberate thinking at something and this produces a mutation, a grave afection of the function of the mind.

Interaction is good with friends but is more interesting with new people or with people you know little because you discover new universes. You may know that word, "we are made of the people we have met".

I tried to start running again but ashes flew in my eyes and my beer foamed up... it was horrible.

Originally posted by Styrbiorn Sorry, but this is total nonsense.

OK, I exagerated, I was thinking at that being a vegan makes you constient of your body in a detached, objective way, having also the senses stronger and that makes you being harder affectable by disorders, because disorders appears there where you are not conscious about.

Meat has real flavour. What's next? Cucumbers are more tasty than roasted chicken?

Not all vegetables are tasty, only some, tomatoes especialy. Fruits are almost all tasty, but especialy the juicy ones: citrics, grapes.

Sheep, deer and rabbits are among the most stressed animals on earth; in fact a lot of them die from heart attacks caused from stress or fright. I don't see how walking around with your mouth open or not determines how relaxed someone is.

They are not stressed because of their metabolism.

I eat only uncooked fruits (and in the summer fresh tomatoes) and bread, sometimes boiled potatoes.

Originally posted by Menumorut I eat only uncooked fruits (and in the summer fresh tomatoes) and bread, sometimes boiled potatoes.

You must seriously dislike yourself to feel such a pressing need for such extreme dietary self-flagellation. You're body will stay alive forever, man, but you won't really have lived. No meat, no sports, no alcohol, no 'meditation,' etc. What do you do for kicks? Aside from walk and eat uncooked fruits...

Alright, you had me convinced you are a stand up guy till that last sentence. You know the one about not believing in laws of physics. Healthy living does enhance system functioning but it still follows basic fundamentals we are composed of.

Originally posted by TheARRGH I believe in:1) Exercise. Your body is a machine that gets better the more you use it (to a point).2) eating healthily. Ideally organic and local, with a balanced and varied diet--largely vegetables, fruits, nuts, legumes, dairy products, good oils, and hopefully some good lean meat and fish.3)Avoiding stress. crack a joke, find hilarious sites, meditate, take martial arts. Your mental state has an effect on your body's health--and it's not as hard to escape stress at you might think. You just have to work at it, like anything else.4)Interacting with people. It's healthy to talk, interact, imagine, discuss, and invent. your brain is part of your body, and the BEST exercise for it is using it alongside your friends. Thinking together is healthier than thinking alone.

This is good and I really agree and try to live this way. I am starting to run again with the milder temps but besides supplimants I eat a lot of raw vegies or steamed. I love sprouts with feta cheese on them. I will start hiking now that the snow is dispearing for the surrounding pine forests.