Tue, Apr 19 2005

Zen And More Zen

Remember Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance? Zen apparently has many other venues:

The Zen of Organizing
The Zen of CSS Design
Zen Dog
Zen for Christians
Zen Gardening
Zen and the Art of Knitting
The Zen Commandments
Zen and the Art of Falling in Love

And coming soon:
The Zen of Creativity : Cultivating Your Artistic Life

posted at: 08:38 | category: /Religious and Spiritual | link to this entry

Food Pyramid Gets A Facelift

Well, it's here. Since we seemed to only get fatter under the guidelines of the old food pyramid, the USDA is now presenting us with a new one. The site is very popular because it's new and shiny, so I wasn't able to take a look at their "Inside the Pyramid" section yet. I suspect they're still tweaking details, because I got at least one page with raw HTML showing. Individual food links make use of pop-up pages, which most of us will have to unblock in order to view them properly.

I suspect there is still way too much biased input from the powerful industries that bring us meat, refined flour and sugar, and dairy and egg products. But it's a good idea to at least get people thinking and talking about food and exercise. I especially like the image of the human figure ascending the stairs of the pyramid. Most of us would benefit from a lot more physical activity.

I hope it all brings us better health. I've been waiting for the Brown Rice pop-up page to load while I type this post, but I think it failed somewhere along the way. I'll just have to go back later when people get bored with the whole thing and they go hunting for the next new and shiny diet craze.

posted at: 08:30 | category: /Health and Fitness | link to this entry