Did you know that bean consumption is the one common thing between all Blue Zone Populations, who are the world's
longest living cultures?
There is not a single
long lived culture living on any version of a Paleo Diet.
It is of interest as well to note that Jon Robbins of vegan fame also wrote a book called healthy at 100 where he revisits all
the long lived cultures in the world to determine what each one ate and he NEVER found a vegan culture.
All of the healthiest, most
long lived cultures have always had some kind of fermented food as a staple of their diet.
Not exact matches
Like Sachs, Whippman believes that «there are many reasons why
life in America is likely to produce anxiety compared with other developed nations:
long working hours without paid vacation time for many, insecure employment conditions with little legal protection for workers, inequality, and the lack of universal health care coverage, to name a few,» but she stresses that our «happiness - seeking
culture» is also part of the problem.
Because many of their team members are
life -
long athletes, their
culture is strongly tied to competition.
[16:00] Pain + reflection = progress [16:30] Creating a meritocracy to draw the best out of everybody [18:30] How to raise your probability of being right [18:50] Why we are conditioned to need to be right [19:30] The neuroscience factor [19:50] The habitual and environmental factor [20:20] How to get to the other side [21:20] Great collective decision - making [21:50] The 5 things you need to be successful [21:55] Create audacious goals [22:15] Why you need problems [22:25] Diagnose the problems to determine the root causes [22:50] Determine the design for what you will do about the root causes [23:00] Decide to work with people who are strong where you are weak [23:15] Push through to results [23:20] The loop of success [24:15] Ray's new instinctual approach to failure [24:40] Tony's ritual after every event [25:30] The review that changed Ray's outlook on leadership [27:30] Creating new policies based on fairness and truth [28:00] What people are missing about Ray's
culture [29:30] Creating meaningful work and meaningful relationships [30:15] The importance of radical honesty [30:50] Thoughtful disagreement [32:10] Why it was the relationships that changed Ray's
life [33:10] Ray's biggest weakness and how he overcame it [34:30] The jungle metaphor [36:00] The dot collector — deciding what to listen to [40:15] The wanting of meritocratic decision - making [41:40] How to see bubbles and busts [42:40] Productivity [43:00] Where we are in the cycle [43:40] What the Fed will do [44:05] We are late in the
long - term debt cycle [44:30] Long - term debt is going to be squeezing us [45:00] We have 2 economies [45:30] This year is very similar to 1937 [46:10] The top tenth of the top 1 % of wealth = bottom 90 % combined [46:25] How this creates populism [47:00] The economy for the bottom 60 % isn't growing [48:20] If you look at averages, the country is in a bind [49:10] What are the overarching principles that bind us toget
long - term debt cycle [44:30]
Long - term debt is going to be squeezing us [45:00] We have 2 economies [45:30] This year is very similar to 1937 [46:10] The top tenth of the top 1 % of wealth = bottom 90 % combined [46:25] How this creates populism [47:00] The economy for the bottom 60 % isn't growing [48:20] If you look at averages, the country is in a bind [49:10] What are the overarching principles that bind us toget
Long - term debt is going to be squeezing us [45:00] We have 2 economies [45:30] This year is very similar to 1937 [46:10] The top tenth of the top 1 % of wealth = bottom 90 % combined [46:25] How this creates populism [47:00] The economy for the bottom 60 % isn't growing [48:20] If you look at averages, the country is in a bind [49:10] What are the overarching principles that bind us together?
I believe that stories communicate both the gospel and the truth about the human existence, but more importantly, they awaken in us something
long repressed by our modern
culture:
life itself is a story.
A
culture of bullying has taken over in this area, and the idea of academic freedom, wide enquiry, and genuine debate and analysis is no
longer seen as essential in university
life.
Reclaiming a vigorous Christian identity is a countercultural act in a
culture that no
longer grasps the beauty of a disciplined, centered and divinely directed
life.
Secondly, human existence will no
longer be
lived exclusively within one
culture with its own identity and language.
Second, my major ministry, the San Francisco Network Ministries, is among people
long ago abandoned by the church — the frail elderly poor, the homeless, addicts and alcoholics, illiterates, people with AID»S / ARC who are
living in poverty, prostitutes and other victims of our
culture's «sex industry,» and people with various mental and physical disabilities struggling to
live on meager benefit payments.
We misunderstand even the practical / pastoral thrust of the Bible whenever we compare or equate it with the pastoral concerns of an established religion - with the maintenance of the
life of parish and clan in a society where there are no
longer any challenges being addressed to the powers that be, no
longer any new believers coming in across the boundaries of nation and
culture, and no
longer any new threatening issues needing to be wrestled with on the missionary frontier.
Eliade has also documented the extreme persistence of this style of ordering
life into a story which is not open to the new, in the rural
cultures of Europe right down to the time of his own youth, and not only so, but he brilliantly predicted the resurgence of this kind of
life story in the counterculture in a book which he wrote as
long ago as the 1940's.2
She said: «What we need is a
culture in our schools which gives emotional support to children through puberty without encouraging them to make
life -
long decisions against their natural born biological sex.
Jeremy, I realize that your thesis here presents theology as distinctive and «based to some degree on out
culture, worldview, and what we have learned / experienced thus far in
life» Yet, for those who are
living in Christ (and not themselves), this is not (no
longer) so.
Recreation is no
longer on the margins of
life; it is a major factor, if not the major one, in determining the tone and temper of mass
culture.
But when this
living and continually renewed relational event is no
longer the centre of a
culture, then that
culture hardens into a world of It.
This is the kind of material
life our
culture trains us to
long for, whether we are the immigrant hoping for a better
life or the uber - wealthy person trying to «make do» with a 20,000 - square - foot house.
In Europe, for example, religious people can no
longer ignore the existence of the millions of foreigners with different
cultures who are now
living there.
What binds those different
cultures and ethnicities together in America is a
longing to
live free in a democracy.
The questions about religion and public
life, those calling for «public» discussion, no
longer focus on the verifiability of religious speech but concern quite other issues: methods of understanding and describing the religious realities, old and new, that we see appearing around us; useful criteria for assessing these religions and for defining and comprehending this new set of powers in our public
life; and ways of protecting vital religious groups from the excesses of the public reaction to them, and protecting the public from the excesses of powerful religious groups — hardly questions a secular
culture had thought it would have to take seriously!
On the contrary, most counterfactual of all now appears the «secular» confidence, common not so
long ago, that as a scientific and democratic
culture unfolded, religion would gradually dissipate as an effective force in personal and social
life alike.
Our
culture lacks a way of talking effectively about the ultimate value of human
life, or making large judgments about what is good for human beings in the
long run.
Because our
culture has for so
long insidiously taught citizens that the good
life is measured by their economic success and participation in the consumer society, it is small wonder so many believe that politics is a burden that conflicts with their pursuit of what really matters.
Cutting off
long hair is very symbolic in our
culture, and when it is done, it invites people to ask why it was done, and what has changed in your
life.
With early Romanticism gradually fading away into the petit - bourgeois aesthetic cocoon known as Biedermeier (c. 1815 — 1848), German
culture increasingly acquiesces to Romanticism's most worrisome features: its strident nationalist undertow; its messianic aspirations, which mutated into delusions of racial superiority; its Rousseauian attempt at recovering authentic, immediate
Life (Leben); the variously violent and sexualized mythology in which its major representatives (Friedrich Schlegel, Heinrich von Kleist, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Novalis) ground their
longing for human - engineered salvation.
Furthermore, anyone who has studied ancient Near Eastern
culture knows that the familial structure we see represented in scripture was nothing like the nuclear family epitomized by the Cleavers, but would rather have included multiple generations and relatives
living together in clans, with women working
long hours «outside of the home» in the fields, tending sheep, gathering food, trading goods, etc..
Lewis Mumford's
life -
long investigation of the interaction between
culture and its technology, demonstrates convincingly the impossibility of separating a discussion of technology from the
cultures in which it is invented and used.
«Our society and
culture are driving many to ask new questions about the meaning of
life and to re-examine answers that had
long been taken for granted.
Out of these shared convictions and the
culture of building they nourished, the architects and patrons of these cities created urban environments and landscapes that were not only extraordinarily beautiful but that also acted as theaters of memory and hope, places that simultaneously referred to and grounded citizens in their origins, the common destiny for which they
longed, and the virtues necessary for success in their individual and collective journeys through
life.
Thus democracy still exists — we thankfully still
live in a democracy — but it is clear that we no
longer have a democratic
culture.
«In the perspective of the Bible, conversion is turning from idols to serve a
living and true God and not moving from one
culture to another and from one community to another as it is understood in the communal sense in India today», and further that so
long as baptism remains a transference of cultural or communal allegiance, «we can not judge those who while confessing faith in Jesus, are unwilling to be baptised» (Renewal in.
Religions have constituted the core of the
lives and communities of the people;
cultures have expressed and transmitted their values, forms, styles and tastes; and civilizations have formed through the
long accumulations of the peoples» religio - cultural achievements and failures.
Civilization is the dimension of religio -
culture which, through its
long process of historical cumulation and geographical expansion, constitutes the matrix of community
life of the peoples; its inner, organic nexus crosses the boundaries of human communities, organizing them into a large - scale constellation.
There was a time in American
life, not so very
long ago, when the only significant relation between religion and popular
culture seemed to be the tedious symbiosis enjoyed by such envelope - pushing television producers as Steven Bochco and David E. Kelley and the conservative Christians who loved to....
The
longing to withdraw from, escape, or transcend the vicissitudes of political
life in favor of a more perfect world permeates Western
culture from ancient times to our own, though the responses to it have taken many forms.
We are working with others to build a national
Culture of Health enabling everyone in America to
live longer, healthier
lives.
McDonald says the company's heritage, thanks to the
long -
lived efforts of the Kinder family and the historical importance of barbecue to California's
culture, is among its greatest strength.
But you can also follow the typical DIY yogurt routine, and use a small portion of store bought coconut yogurt, as
long as it includes
live cultures in the ingredients list (that's the bacteria that helps create a sour funk).
Based on years of research and the experience of Brian and Marianita Shilhavy, this book documents how tropical
cultures eating a diet high in the saturated fat of coconut oil enjoy
long healthy
lives.
The starter is an active
culture of yeast that should
live indefinitely as
long as you do not allow it to get contaminated and keep it hydrated and properly fed.
As a
culture, we seem to operate under the misguided notion that attachment - style parenting is one in which parents — and particularly mothers — sacrifice their
lives entirely for the good of their children, and compete over who can breastfeed the
longest and make the most nutritious baby food.
Mark S Kiselica writes in When Boys Become Parents, «For too
long our
culture has treated boys who become fathers... as detached misfits who are the architects of many of our nation's problems, rather than seeing these youth for who they really are: young men trying to navigate a complex array of difficult
life circumstances that place them at a tremendous disadvantage.»
If you are
living away from your home
culture, you may want to teach your children at home while you settle in and visit the local schools, or you might decide that it's a good opportunity to try out home education
long - term.
Religions and
cultures have a right to determine their own norms (as
long as it's balanced against the rights of individuals to express themselves and
live as they please).
As
long as you're eating yogurt that has
live active
cultures, it contains probiotics (aka beneficial bacteria) that help to balance the microflora in your gut.
While Andy Warhol's best - known work examines modern urban
life and consumer
culture, his interest in nature was
life -
long.
While it was mostly a product of industrialization, the infant murder existed in some form or another in all Western
cultures already from the beginning of Christianization, when it was no
longer legal to end an unwanted child's
life right after birth.
I have been
living too
long outside America to see face to face how the food
culture has evolved.