I used to think diet is the key to health. Recently I realized that is not the whole story. In a way lifestyle is also crucial--such as stress, physical activity, mood, biological clock, etc. I know some people who are very health conscious regarding diet, and remain fit for years before he had a heart attack at the age of 60 (which, believe or not, is not an early age at all). This is an alarm that you can't be too sure if you're only eating the good stuff and being thin and fit. What we need is a wholesome attitude toward healthy life-- to really enjoy life and being energetic and all that, while certainly health conscious too.
i lost 10kg recently (over 4 months) by only keeping a healthy diet though(not to limit quantity much). Diet really works on me in terms of losing weight. But I've gotta deal with other things, such as stress.
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Recently I've been reading up on music and language research on the anthropological side, which I was not very familiar before. But as I read them, I felt that I was more familiar with these than I assumed--training as I went through my ethnomusicology program. After all, ethnomusicology, linguistic anthropology, and other domains of social sciences/humanities (such as semiotics, philosophy) all contribute to the humanistic side of discussion about music and language. There has been a "vocal anthropology" thread going on in anthro depts too. I got familiar with works of Aaron Fox, Steven Feld, and some older authors that I used to read, such as Charles Seeger, Jean-Jacque Nattiez, George List, Alan Lomax, etc. Apparently there has been a lot going on in the field in the past 20 years too.
The Fox&Feld 1994 review article, it seems to me, is very comprehensive and offers an excellent overview of all the issues that have been going on in music and language, including different disciplines and different approaches such as the cognitive modelling (although things got a little different after Ani Patel's boom of the neuroscience of music and language processing). Paja Faudree's new review (upcoming) for 1994-2011 is somewhat tuned toward a more specialized module of approach. Although I am still the most intrigued by the cognitive side of m/l research, especially those with brain imaging, I still see the merits on different perspectives. I think one of the essential differences, as I articulated in the article Between Natural Sciences and Social Sciences/Humanities, is that while the cognitive methodology offers an objective and more accurate picture of the physical basis of the brain processing of m/l, it is also hard to debate the stance taken by the humanistic side: viewing music or language as an abstract and independent logic form, detached from its vibrant context of change, dynamics, and usage, and the vastly rich and diverse responses, thoughts, and feelings that people experience, kind of only tells one side of the story. Therefore we have the value of the complements by looking both ways. The New Science Behind Your Spending Addiction - New science unveils how your brain is hard-wired when it comes to spending—and how you can reboot it. http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/10/30/the-new-science-behind-your-spending-addiction.html
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