Archive for Health and Fitness

How Do You Want Your Steak Sir? Cloned or Normal?

My sister doesn’t eat pork because she thinks it is dirty compared to beef. I told her about an article I read that cows today can produce 50 times more milk in a day than it used to because of the advancements of genetics and technology. I would joke at my sister that at least technologists wouldn’t spend time re-engineering pigs than they do with cows (I don’t know of any side effects it has on cows and those that consume them).

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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, who is the Fairest of Them All?

Back in college my professor discussed how media brainwash society the meaning of beauty & health and how they dictate status quo by bombarding us with magazine covers of well-cut models in bikini. Apparently the fashion industry have taken it to the next level.

In an excerpt of the story I am reading: This goes against everything we stand for as an industry, Mr. Bonnouvrier said. I am kicking and screaming about it now because this should be an industry of beauty and luxury, not famished-looking people that look pale and sick.

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Act While it is in the Preventive Stage Rather than Curative

This is my first post about health & fitness, a part of the personal development theme of this blog. As an old Chinese saying goes—a strong body is a strong mind. What’s the use of becoming a great leader with all your experience and knowledge when you are lying on your death bed and can’t even lift a finger on your own?

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