Month: January 2011

Get up stand up

January 12, 2011

New analysis by scientists at the University of Queensland suggests that extended periods of uninterrupted sitting may be more harmful than previously realized. The researchers looked at existing survey data involving almost 5,000 adult American men and women, and found a strong link between both total and average duration of sitting and markers for heart disease, including obesity. Importantly, even among people with similar total amounts of daily sitting, those who took more breaks from sitting were significantly healthier. Learn more about the new findings at Get Up Stand Up.

Push-up pick-up

January 10, 2011

Need a quick pick-up at work or want to meet someone new at your favorite work-out spot? Try a two-minute push-up challenge. Whether it’s the most you can do in four 30 second sets (with good form) or ten super slow reps with five second holds at the bottom, a quick series of push-ups can freshen your mood and energize others. Learn more about our natural calisthenics program at HumanaNatura Calisthenics.

Monday morning

January 10, 2011

Not so bad when it starts with a red and green onion omelet with mixed greens and berries…garnished with sunflower seeds, parsley, paprika, marjoram, and red pepper…

North meets south

January 9, 2011

Curried cod, red onion, red bell pepper, cut pea pods, sunflower seeds, and a few cranberries with chopped redleaf and sliced grape tomatoes…garnished with pistachios, parsley, black pepper, coriander, and lemon…

Vaccines & autism de-linked

January 9, 2011

The British Medical Journal reported this week that Andrew Wakefield’s controversial 1998 research showing a link between childhood vaccinations and autism was based on fabricated and fraudulent data. Previously, researchers had been unable to reproduce the results and the medical journal Lancet had withdrawn Wakefield’s original paper in 2009. Learn more about this latest report at Vaccine-Autism Link Discredited.

Your Nearest Waterfall

January 8, 2011

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Do you know the nearest waterfall to you? It may be a famous location or an unexpected or overlooked place. Either way, we would encourage you to find the waterfall closest to where you live – by searching nearest waterfall here – and then to take the next step of going there to experience what the falling water evokes in you.

We won’t speculate why waterfalls are such evocative places. We will only emphasize that they are, and urge you to discover or rediscover this for yourself. If you do, you will experience the visceral and uplifting rush and hush of water, echoing and softening other sounds in the landscape, and perhaps sparkling in sun or moonlight. All are recurring and ancient natural qualities that are common to waterfalls around the world.

Together, these experiences reliably give us feelings of nature revealed and renewed, and help us to better see naturalness and waiting renewal in ourselves, others, and indeed all things. Always, when we perceive wild nature attentively, the world is at once simplified and made richer – reduced to its essence and yet elevated too.

Such experiences more deeply connect us to nature and our own human nature, each of which like waterfalls involves potentials waiting to be unleashed and cultivated. Inspiring time in nature offers new self-understanding, new and re-naturalized perspective on modern life, and new clarity regarding our truest needs and priorities.

In the HumanaNatura natural health system, connection to nature is one of our ten dimensions of natural living, which are listed below and you can learn about here:

  1. Autonomy
  2. Harmony
  3. Community
  4. Rhythm
  5. Intimacy
  6. Growth
  7. Movement
  8. Security
  9. Simplicity
  10. Nature

We hope you will explore our ten dimensions, and the needed place of natural experiences and perspectives in your life. Nature and the other HumanaNatura dimensions are waiting opportunities for new health forever before us.

They are as close as the nearest waterfall and, in truth, they are much closer still.

Tell others about HumanaNatura…give the gift of modern natural life!