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Petitions | The White House

Petitions | The White House

WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO:

Exclude hot dogs and other obesity- and cancer-causing foods from photo ops that feature the president.

The nonprofit Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine believes that food-related photo ops featuring the president, vice president, first family, or members of the cabinet routinely conflict with government health messages. The photos often present foods that contribute most strongly to cancer, obesity, and premature mortality in a favorable light. A typical photo op depicts a president entertaining a foreign dignitary, with both stuffing processed meats or hamburgers into their mouths for the assembled cameras. All recent presidents have been involved in such events. There is no justification for encouraging Americans to eat foods that will harm them and their children. Instead, photo ops that include food should portray government officials eating healthfully.

Created: May 09, 2012

Issues: Health Care

JP Chef, bestselling vegetarian cookbook author Didi Emmons, injured in bike crash

Chef, author injured in bike crash

Chef, author injured in bike crash

April 27, 2012

By John Ruch

CANARY SQ.—A Jamaica Plain chef and bestselling cookbook author was injured April 6 when her bicycle hit a car door at Centre and Moraine streets.
Didi Emmons said she spent a night in the hospital with a concussion after the accident in a post on her Facebook page. She noted that she fell in front of an MBTA bus that stopped before hitting her.
“It has spun a whole new spin on my existence,” she wrote. Emmons did not respond to a Gazette interview request.

Emmons is known for establishing Roxbury’s Haley House Bakery Café and writing the 1997 bestseller “Vegetarian Planet.” She promoted her latest book, “Wild Flavors,” at a dinner event last fall at Tres Gatos, which stands near the bike accident scene.

NOTE: Didi Emmons recently (April 25) lectured at Northeastern University's Food & American Society: An Urban Perspective course, the video and PowerPoint of which are at:
http://www.northeastern.edu/policyschool/lectures-and-seminars/open-classroom/video-recordings/

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Tighter Muscles - Mass Redistribution

I feel chest and abdominal muscles tightening up.  Perhaps the leg muscles are showing the efforts of my 5 mile/day walking, but they've long been strong because of my girth.  I'm unlikely to feel the difference as much as the redistribution of flab.

The steps of a good man...

As I was walking this afternoon between the Harvard Medical School building where I work to the mailroom at the Harvard School of Public Health - enjoying how many of my daily 10,000 steps (about 5 miles), I heard someone whisper out: "The steps of a good man of a good man are ordered by the Lord."

Where did THAT come from?  I looked, I laughed a little, and I continued on thinking repeatedly about the citation from Psalm 37:23.

Just a few steps short of 300 steps later, here I am tell you about it.

On my 5-mile walk today (10,000 steps is about 5 miles), I began to realize that when I'm walking (if I have enough water around), I'd not doing with my stomach what would ordinarily motivate me to eat.  My abdominal muscles are happily exercising rather than being stimulated by the introduction of food.

Quick!  Hydrate!  Walk on!

Boasting

While I reached 9600 steps during one day of the past two weeks, my average accomplishment is not so high.

However, IF I were to keep a 'running average' of my average walking achievements, each day I don't achieve 10000 steps/day makes the 10000 steps/day AVERAGE more difficult (if not impossible) to achieve.

I wonder what we do about psychological discounting if one's AVERAGE performance is a public statistic.

Non-governmental organization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Non-governmental organization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

S'o, WHY the Failure to ACHIEVE the HIGH STANDARD ?

For about a week, I've failed to achieve the high standard of 10,000 steps/day in my daily low-stress exercise workout.  It's just not happening.

Given a graduate thesis to do, I'm finding that my schedule is barely negotiable when I spend all that time walking around.  One hour in a gym is a little different from two hours walking around town.

Of course, I spent an hour in a grocery store, and usually my round trip to the grocery is in itself 2000 steps.   Somethings wrong.  I walked up (should have been 1000 steps) in the afternoon, but after climing all those three levels of stairs, I saw EXACTLY 1000 steps.  Hmmm, I'd been walking around all morning.  After half a 2000-step trip, how did I only have exactly 1000 steps?

Then I walked an hour in the store, checking on prices - but it was all walking around at a pretty good clip.  After I checked out in the self-check express lane, I had exactly - WHAT? - 10005 steps.  Something is wrong here - with my $20 pedometer!

Then I walked back, then walked back and forth a few times between home and the office - and did lots of steps at the office - but WHAT? - still less than 1000 steps more (under 2000 steps).

I MAY be realizing health benefits I'm unable to document.  We'll see in time.  By now, given all that walking and 90 minutes on a rebounder, I should have about 8000-9000 steps, but I don't.

This pedometer was THE MOST HIGHLY RECOMMENDED PEDOMETER - but I'm really frustrated with what I've noted.

My daily goal of 10,000 recorded steps - steps recorded on my pedometer - has been quite challenging for me, but friends have already told me that I'm losing weight (even when I'm not achieving my daily goal).

My pedometer 'NUDGED' me to "take more steps!"

I bought my pedometer - through eBay, then through Amazon.com, then at CVS (only $5.29 after the clerk stared me down with "Well...!?!?!?!" after I asked him where his pedometers are - then he showed me).

And now I'm walking...  One round-trip to the grocery is one-fifth of my daily quota, which is great - better than 30 round trips to my office across the street.

But more important, I used to dread walking INEFFICIENTLY from point-to-point inside my studio, but now I'm thankful for the exercise, however I get it.  Since I have a 10,000 step daily quota, everything counts.  And my rebounder is getting lots of use now - while listening to NPR or watching the nightly news.

"Take more steps!" Dr. William Zucker of Winchester, MA, urged me as we chanced upon each other near Harvard Square on Thanksgiving Day, and that's exactly what I've been doing.

Even over-eating somehow SEAMS less deadly because I feel like the abdomen is much more fit than it once was; and I'm less interested in just eating to 'push' the inside of my belly.  Instead, I can WORK to get my abdominal muscles to do some of that same forceful inside pushing.

The insights from Buddhist meditation ALSO are finding new applications like I'd never before thought.

Yep!  Just keep it up.  :"Take more steps!" - Dr. William Zucker, Winchester, MA, vegan MD