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What I Learned From "My Month of Austerity"

Submitted by RA on Wed, 02/01/2012 - 23:58

So that's it. My 31 days of self-deprivation have passed. After my early withdrawals and later bouts of craving for caffeine and alcohol, the giving-up didn't seem so hard. I managed to reason away the never-distant cravings, but what really helped was that I realised that I actually quite like the sense of equilibrium that my period of drying out has brought me.

More Austere Than "My Month of Austerity"

Submitted by RA on Fri, 01/20/2012 - 23:31

So I passed the half-way mark of my "month of austerity" sans alcohol, caffeine, and sugar with flying colours so to speak. Haven't caved in to temptation, although I must confess whenever a cloud of fresh brewed coffee wafts through the house, I start fantasising about when my month of austerity ends.

Having got passed the initial intense withdrawal effects, it's now just a matter of not giving up on my initial resolution out of boredom or a premature sense of achievement.

My Month of Austerity 1: Out With the Caffeine, Booze, and Sugar

Submitted by RA on Tue, 01/10/2012 - 22:50

I'm not one for New Year's resolution, but for some time I've been thinking about what it would be like to cut off my daily dose of stimulants and intoxicants i.e. caffeine, booze, and sugar.

I've been consuming these, in various shapes and forms, on a daily basis for most of my adult life (and - booze excepted - in smaller quantities for most of my life).

Closing In On The Old-Timer

Submitted by RA on Fri, 03/04/2011 - 14:39

Harold Chapson I'm closing in on you!

I am slower than an 85-year-old

Submitted by RA on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 14:23

I ran 400 metres round the local race track yesterday. 106 seconds. Not bad, I thought for a 45-year-old. Then I saw Harold Chapson ran it 16 seconds faster, when he was 76-years-old!

No future for plastics

Submitted by RA on Tue, 03/30/2010 - 23:51

For years, our household has been trying to reduce the amount of plastic we use. It's tricky. Most of the time you buy a loaf of bread, or a bag of potatoes it comes in plastic. Look around your house and there's plastic everywhere from the casing on all your tech gadgets and gizmos, the lining of tins of food, to the zipper on your clothing. It's even used in fillings for your cavities.

Try finding toys that aren't made of plastic. You can, but most toys seem to be made of the ubiquitous oil-based material.

So we push it to the back of our mind until our conscience is tweaked again.

Too Much Wireless Bad For The Brain?

Submitted by RA on Thu, 01/28/2010 - 02:26

I first took notice of cell phone scares when watching a television series based on former British Tory MP Alan Clark's Diaries. The then cabinet minister was convinced his terminal brain cancer (he died of a brain tumour in 1999) was down to his heavy cell phone use.

Food Too Expensive To Eat Well?

Submitted by RA on Mon, 02/09/2009 - 23:39

Healthy eating is too expensive for almost half of Canadians according to a new report by The Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation.

Profile of Ecological Footprint inventor William Rees

Submitted by RA on Fri, 10/27/2006 - 16:00

As a boy working on his grandparents' farm in eastern Ontario, William Rees found his vocation in life. Rees, a professor at the UBC's School of Community and Regional Planning, calls it his epiphany. It was also the root of his now famous "ecological footprint" that has been adopted by individuals, organizations and policy makers across the globe as a tool for understanding the impact we as humans are having on our environment.

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