Category Archives: Rock on-Peace Out

Eat Drink Better | Healthy recipes, good food: sustainable eats for a healthy lifestyle!

Here’s the number one problem with processed food: it’s so processed that we can’t really identify its origins. Especially when we’re talking about processed meat, which is pretty darn gnarly. Photographer Peter Augustus just changed all that.

Texas-born and now Hong Kong based, Augustus took photographs showing the unappetizing origins of processed meat including chicken nuggets, hot dogs and ham.

Only, in Augustus’ photos, he illuminates the unprocessed ingredients such as chicken feet, pig snouts and intestines that are commonly found in these items.

via Eat Drink Better | Healthy recipes, good food: sustainable eats for a healthy lifestyle!.

10 Reasons to Exercise & A 30-Day Challenge. | Rebelle Society

1. Keeps you youthful. Cardio exercise such as yoga, jogging, light aerobics, brisk walking or bicycling increase the amount of oxygen consumed during exercise. Studies now show that people who exercise regularly tend to stay healthier as they age — according to Web MD, researchers have found that people who exercise have cells that look much younger under a microscope than people who do not regularly exercise. And we all know, true beauty emanates from the inside out — what’s inside will eventually make its way through.

2. Increases immunity. Regular, mindful workouts (not over-doing it) rev-up the immune system. Research shares that the average adult has two to three upper respiratory infections each year. However, studies found that people with a regular exercise routine report fewer colds and infections. And a strong immunity keeps us saying yes to life and all its invitations.

3. Prevents heart disease. An inactive lifestyle is one of the top risk factors for heart disease. Physical activity helps to keep you at a healthy weight and can reduce your chances of developing  conditions that may put a strain on your heart, such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes. And a healthy heart could just translate into healthier relationships.

4. Eases-up asthma. According to a study in the UK, eight out of ten people with asthma aren’t doing enough exercise. Mindful and appropriate exercise for asthmatics can actually improve your lung capacity, which can help to manage asthma.

5. Controls blood sugar and lower diabetes. Moderate exercise makes your heart beat faster. When this happens, your muscles use more glucose, the sugar in your blood stream. Over time, this can lower blood sugar level and  help the insulin in your body work better.

6. Helps to prevent cancer. New studies show that there is strong evidence that exercise is associated with reduced risk of cancers of the colon and breast, and reduces the risk of endometrial/uterus, lung, and prostate cancers.

7. Alleviates stress. According to the Mayo Clinic, exercise in almost any form can act as a stress reliever and can boost your feel-good endorphins — and distract you from daily, arbitrary worries.

8. Relieves menopausal symptoms. Moderate and frequent exercise has proven to improve the quality of sleep and elevate mood. It may also relieve night sweats, by reducing stress and balancing out hormones.

9. Protects men’s health. According to a study shared on Web MD, men who found time for five or more hours of exercise a week (just under an hour a day), whether job-related or for fun, were 30% to 50% less likely to develop an enlarged prostrate than those who exercised fewer than two hours a week.

10. Prolongs life. Researchers have found that moderate exercise, such as walking or bicycling, can substantially reduce your risk of early death.

And, just think — these are only 10 of the benefits of moving your body! Find what works best for you and the best part? You don’t have to over do it. Thirty minutes of sincere, moderate exercise every day will offer you life-affirming benefits.

via 10 Reasons to Exercise & A 30-Day Challenge. | Rebelle Society.

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National Service Official Blog.

AmeriCorps members are finding careers, bringing new energy to disaster services

When looking at the emotional phases of a disaster there is an attempt to understand what individual survivors and communities are going through after an event. Time and again we see the greatness of humanity post impact with heroic moments both great and small.

During the heroic phase we see people opening their homes, helping out neighbors, and performing infinite small kindnesses.  It is during the heroic and honeymoon phases that survivors feel they are not alone, and they have hope for the future.  Unfortunately the realization of the long haul ahead along with the truth of the months or years it will take to recover often leads to disillusionment, and sometimes the loss of that very hope that was so strongly present just days or weeks before.

Watch Out: NYPD Starts 2-Week Bicyclist Crackdown Today!: Gothamist

Will the police knock bicyclists off their bikes to ticket them? Block the bike lane to ticket bicyclists? Hand out tickets for not wearing helmets (should be a field day with Citi Bike users)? Hand out pamphlets for “psycho cyclists”? Does Alec Baldwin know about this?!?

Anything could happen. Send your experiences to tips@gothamist.com.

via Watch Out: NYPD Starts 2-Week Bicyclist Crackdown Today!: Gothamist.

Party People on the Streets of Blackpool

Blackpool was never the Riviera. Twenty years ago, William E. Schmidt, a correspondent for The New York Times, wrote a travel article in which he said, “Even by the dreary standards of so many British beach resorts — foul water and worse weather — Blackpool is in a league of its own.”

via Party People on the Streets of Blackpool.

German Artists Say They Put White Flags on Brooklyn Bridge – NYTimes.com

the artists, Mischa Leinkauf and Matthias Wermke, say the flags had nothing to do with terrorism. They only wanted to celebrate “the beauty of public space” and the great American bridge whose German-born engineer, John Roebling, died in 1869 on July 22, the day the white flags appeared.

The artists decided recently to explain themselves, and provided slightly cryptic pictures and videos of the flags, seemingly shot at night from atop the bridge. They point to other such projects they’ve done in far-flung places that haven’t made waves, and they claimed to be somewhat taken aback by the reception here.

via German Artists Say They Put White Flags on Brooklyn Bridge – NYTimes.com.

Annie Lennox Responds To Gaza Blog Comments – Look to the Stars

The singer and activist has been blogging about the situation in Gaza over the last few weeks, but her thoughts have caused a stir among those who read them, with many choosing sides.

“Over the last few weeks my blogs have been mainly focused on the plight of thousands of innocent civilians trapped in Gaza (many of whom are young children) who have been the victims of bombing raids,” she wrote. “Whichever way you look at the arguments for and against on either side, it is abominable that any human being should have to suffer on such a scale.

“I have read most of the comments posted on my blogs. The entire spectrum of viewpoints has been well represented… from hate filled bigotry to more rational viewpoints, all passionately expressed. Somewhat predictably it is so often “There is only one side… and if you’re not with us, you’re against us.”

“For me, this kind of perspective only ever leads to destruction as the inevitable end game. The possibility for long term sustainable peace should be the only goal. But it seems that after decades of abuse, the situation is further away from a positive solution than it ever was. How many more innocent people must be slaughtered? How many lives shattered?

“Latest developments across the entire Middle East seem to be rapidly turning the region into an even bigger tinder keg of madness and extremism. What’s the end game? I personally don’t see how this can turn out well. I don’t know how other people are feeling, but I find this all deeply disquieting.”

via Annie Lennox Responds To Gaza Blog Comments – Look to the Stars.

Covina man stays active at 101

Every morning, Gilbert Martinez wakes up does a set up pushups and sit-ups. Most days, he’ll go on a walk and play a game of chess with a friend.

The Covina resident’s daily schedule would be typical if it weren’t for his age — Martinez turned 101 Aug. 6.

The senior walks to Joslyn Senior Center at 815 N. Barranca Ave. in Covina many days of the week, insisting on an independent lifestyle, instead of using city transit.

via Covina man stays active at 101.