hard skin

“The optimal way for getting super-regenerating skin would be to allow our foot to interact with natural surfaces outside of the shoe over a lifetime, prompting a slow adaptation in foot skin thickness over that lifetime, giving us a much better ability to cope with the sensations caused by walking barefoot.”

– Katy Bowman, Every Woman’s Guide to Foot Pain Relief.

Want to know more about building a good skin foundation for upper body strength and barefoot living the READ THIS from Katy Bowman.

(Image: Vinyasa Flow 2, 2012. By Nothando Sabela, a participant of the Mtubatuba Workshop.)

"Zwelethu Mthethwa is an artist based in Cape Town, best known for his large-format colour photographs.

While in residence for The Welcome Collection, Zwelethu explored the role that communities play in contributing to the research of the Africa Centre in the small town of Mtubatuba, in KwaZulu-Natal province. He was interested in putting a human face to the collection of data and in giving people the opportunity to document their own perceptions of health."

Currently part of the Foreign Bodies Common Ground exhibition at The Welcome Collection.

From hello jon

Health Stamps

NHS 'Health Stamps' (1998)
 found via collectgbstamps

David Shrigley

Health

"Health doesn’t simply demand that we eat well and exercise, we need also to pay attention to how we feel physically and emotionally and act as intelligently as we can on those feelings.

...In yoga we are looking at how we move, how we breathe and how we feel. In fact, we are looking at how we inhabit our bodies. When we start to really pay attention to how we are, we notice more clearly the things that cause us discomfort and the things that make us feel better. If we stop noticing, we are more likely to move away from homeostasis. Think about how animals behave; when they are tired they sleep, when they are hungry, they eat and when they are wakeful they are active, they act on their feelings and in doing so they regulate their lives. Modern life often takes us away from the ability to respond to feelings, but if we ignore them for too long illness can be one of the consequences."

-- Peter Blackaby

Edwardian health and beauty hints

Amazing us humans.
From Glamour Daze via retronaut

Important stuff...

Sugar, not fat, exposed as deadly villain in obesity epidemic

It's addictive and toxic, like a drug, and we need to wean ourselves off it, says US doctor 

Sugar – given to children by adults, lacing our breakfast cereals and a major part of our fizzy drinks – is the real villain in the obesity epidemic, and not fat as people used to think, according to a leading US doctor who is taking on governments and the food industry.

Dr Robert Lustig, who was this month in London and Oxford for a series of talks about his research, likens sugar to controlled drugs. Cocaine and heroin are deadly because they are addictive and toxic – and so is sugar, he says. "We need to wean ourselves off. We need to de-sweeten our lives. We need to make sugar a treat, not a diet staple," he said.

"The food industry has made it into a diet staple because they know when they do you buy more. This is their hook. If some unscrupulous cereal manufacturer went out and laced your breakfast cereal with morphine to get you to buy more, what would you think of that? They do it with sugar instead."

Read the full article here
(Sarah Boseley, health editor at The Guardian)