Scourign BestBuy.com for workout DVDs. Jillian Michaels is awfully tempting at this time of night.

US deaths caused from poverty same amount as heart attacks and strokes:

“How researchers classify and quantify causes of death across a population has evolved in recent decades. In addition to long-recognized physiological causes such as heart attack and cancer, the role of behavioral factors — including smoking, dietary patterns and inactivity — began to be quantified in the 1990s. More recent research has begun to look at the contribution of social factors to U.S. mortality. In the first comprehensive analysis of such studies, researchers at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health found that poverty, low levels of education, poor social support and other social factors contribute about as many deaths in the U.S. as such familiar causes as heart attacks, strokes and lung cancer.”

“The investigators found that approximately 245,000 deaths in the United States in the year 2000 were attributable to low levels of education, 176,000 to racial segregation, 162,000 to low social support, 133,000 to individual-level poverty, 119,000 to income inequality, and 39,000 to area-level poverty.”

Read more at the link. 

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TWO HOURS OF HELL… oh joy.

Metabolism boosters

Well, I’ve just concluded that it’s time to go jeans shopping again. Counting calories for the past 6 months or so, plus throwing Insanity into the mix, means my jeans are all a couple inches too big, and I refuse to wear a belt and have belt bulge in all my favorite shirts. Belts bother me in general, anyway. I always have this fear of having to pee really bad, then not being able to get the belt undone in time.

Just me?

Eh, moving on.

I’ve decided that when I’m genuinely satisfied with myself, and I’m at 125 pounds (give or take a couple pounds), I might want a belly button ring. Yeah, they look kinda trashy, but I think it’s a modern symbol for a youthful sort of confidence. Even if you’re not that thin, if you’ve got a belly ring, I usually think, “Whoa, that girl let a complete stranger fondle her abdomen whilst piercing it with a whorish piece of metal. That’s confidence, right there.”

I want a whorish piece of metal someday. I want people looking at my belly button area, mesmerized by a gleaming, fake diamond stud embedded into my flesh as I prance about a crowded beach in an itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka dot bikini.

Some people dream of being a doctor. I dream of decorating my stomach with luxurious stripper jewelry. And I don’t give a fuck what anyone thinks.

current weight: 138 (slowly coming down….ever so slowly…)

goal weight: 125

Schizophrenia symptoms. sudden social withdrawal, talking to self with abnormal beliefs. http://dld.bz/pMpe health

This will be me in the gym tomorrow morning… No Excuses!!!

Marathon Nutrition Before During and after Race:

If anyone has any (cheap-ish!) suggestions for good workout DVDs I would really appreciate it. I can’t drive and the nearest gym is too far away to walk/bike to. 

It’s either this or I stop eating, and I really do not want to do that again.

Any suggestions?

The Social Divide That Humans Love - Poor Students Not Given Top Jobs

It seems that the world is destined to be divided into zillions of man made divisions. Humans can hardly believe in equality because they love the divide and differences as long as they are getting benefits out of the situation. We love geographical divides, cultural differences, language barriers and many other barricades that we have created ourselves. We stand apart because we will bring in religion, sects and beliefs too. We feel great because we have more wealth than the others and of course if we get the chance to improve our social standing we will love to be called an elite.

This is something that is happening all over the world. I have seen it in Pakistan all my life. I read of the same everywhere else too. It is the same story everywhere.

One of latest reports from UK revealed that the poor students are not given the right job opportunities or the highly skilled graduate positions and as a result of this the social mobility in UK is getting abnormal.

The poor social mobility record of UK will only improve if students from low income families are given an equal chance for top jobs. There is a massive increase in polarization in the job market. Thus there are lots of professional jobs and unskilled jobs. While middle ranking skilled trade jobs are dropping immensely. UK has become an hour glass economy,which is not good.

Till the poor students are not allowed to take the more stronger academic courses rather than being pushed for the softer courses (like media, arts, design, photography and business studies), employers will not hire them.

This is just the example of one country. But what we should not forget is the great division that we have created ourselves. Of course, everybody is different and people have to face different circumstances and that is how life is shaped. But, by now it is evident that this is how the majority wants things to be.

The truth is humans love differences! They are defined by their social divide!