Thursday, August 12, 2010

If We Could Get A Million Sistas To Practice Yoga & Eat Natural Food Black Americans Wouldn't Need Anything From The Federal Government

Wouldn't need no mammograms e'ry five minutes
Wouldn't need no colorectal cancer screening
Wouldn't need no osteoporosis screening
Wouldn't need no Melanoma screenings
Wouldn't need no cholesterol screening
Wouldn't need no antidepressant medication for depression
Wouldn't need no Relistor for chronic constipation
Kids wouldn't need no Ritalin
Momma wouldn't need no insulin shots
Daddy would still be alive
Husband wouldn't have titties
List goes on ...

O. Mahogany said...

PREACH DV!!!

My first class of theater arts/dance students in the "inner city schools" area were a very active bunch. They seemed to have extremely short attention spans and whatever they were doing in class for the day did nothing for them as they expressed to me.

They wore me out with questions, complaints, problems...energy without control.

Damn this, I said to myself I'm bringing a yoga dvd.

I turned off the lights I used the school's butcher paper for faux yoga mats. Told them no talking at all. 45 minutes later I heard something I had never heard before.
SILENCE.
They were so still and calm and open to hear everything. Once a week I think all kids should do it for P.E. ....

gotta look into educational reform when I really feel like fighting in the pits of hell...lol

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Anonymous said...

Female Infants Growing Breasts: Another Disaster From Hormones in Milk Production
People are very upset about this, and for good reason. Female infants in China who have been fed formula have been growing breasts.

According to the official Chinese Daily newspaper, medical tests performed on the babies found levels of estrogens circulating in their bloodstreams that are as high as those found in most adult women. These babies are between four and 15 months old. And the evidence is overwhelming that the milk formula they have been fed is responsible.

Synutra, the company that makes the baby formula consumed by these babies, says it's not their fault. They insist that "no man-made hormones or any illegal substances were added during the production of the milk powder."

Then what is the source of the hormones? A Chinese dairy association says the hormones could have entered the food chain when farmers reared the cows. "Since a regulation forbidding the use of hormones to cultivate livestock has yet to be drawn up in China," says Wang Dingmian, the former chairman of the dairy association in the southern province of Guangdo, "it would be lying to say nobody uses it." Bovine growth hormones are used in China, as they are in the U.S., to promote greater milk production.

An extraordinary number of food products sold in the U.S. today come from China. Could some of this tainted formula be making its way to the U.S.?

There is currently no way for consumers to know whether infant formula they might purchase has been made with milk products from China.

If this problem appears in the U.S., who will be held responsible? The retailers? The importers? The Chinese producers? Will anyone be called to account?

As I describe in my books The Food Revolution and Diet For a New America, and on my website, this isn't the first time something like this has happened. In the 1980s, doctors in Puerto Rico began encountering cases of precocious puberty. There were four-year-old girls with fully developed breasts. There were three-year old girls with pubic hair and vaginal bleeding. There were one-year-old girls who had not yet begun to walk but whose breasts were growing. And it wasn't just the females. Young boys were also affected. Many had to have surgery to deal with breasts that had become grossly swollen.

Writing a few years later in the Journal of the Puerto Rico Medical Association, Dr. Carmen A. Saenz explained the cause. "It was clearly observed in 97 percent of the cases that the appearance of abnormal breast tissue was...related to local whole milk in the infants."

The problem was traced, and found to stem from the misuse of hormones in dairy cows. When Dr. Saenz was asked how she could be certain the babies and children were contaminated with hormones from milk rather than from some other source, she replied simply: "When we take our young patients off... fresh milk, their symptoms usually regress."

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Anonymous said...

So true. The woman in the pic is probably 50 years old.

Seven Half Store said...

YAY!!!! MAHOGANY LOVES IT.

DV I started yoga earlier this year. I had always heard it was an easy transition from dance. I now practice daily. And once every two weeks I go to a new fave called Bikram Yoga in which we practice Hatha in a heated room. Mannnnn, yoga sculpts my body to wam bam thank you mam!

When I first started. NO SISTAS. I'd go to the class and get snooty looks from the otha chicks but I'm use to that feeling in ballet classes in LA. So I smile, keep it movin and bust a headstand on the first try on them hos lol. That usually shuts em down. But after a while I start to wonder...why are the sistas not takin advantage of the many yoga studios in theyre area. Cuz shiiii after only a month biiii I brought a whole new meaning to the term "yoga booty".

I passed these young sistas on the way to class who were jogging. I was happy so I asked if they were going to class. "Uh unh!" they replied w/ the obligatory neck roll. Felt like the people in class looking down on me all over again. Gained composure and gave one of them my free pass to join for a week.

Im happy to say week later they came- and on the day that a black instructor was there I might add! The instructor was so happy to see us. lol It was the warmest yoga day I'd ever had.

Seven Half Store said...

Also, the spiritual lessons are invaluable to me.

Yoga is a MAJOR stress reliever and I depend on it to maintain focus. I also cant tell you how influential it has been to my creative projects. Ideas overwhelm me after class because my mind is free of clutter and worry. My body is free of stress. Yoga is big on releasing tension from the spine which is the most taxed part of the body.

Yoga is the blackest (hee hee hee sorry) physical regimen on the planet!

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Anonymous said...

O. Mahogany, why do you think the women you passed going into the Yoga class were so set against it? Wonder if it was another one of those "black folks don't do" things. We can't be the only cultural group that does that.

Also to make the title of this thread correct, maybe you should delete the "natural" food part and add take care of their finances, it would ring more true.

Seven Half Store said...

DMG

I think the young ladies might've been intimidated is all. Yoga looks terribly difficult if you're ignorant about it. I mean look at the chick in the photo.

If you watch a class from the outside looking in yoga people look "weird" and all the ohhmmm and namaste and all.

It's also more expensive than say your average dance class or monthly gym membership. ahem.

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Anonymous said...

Also to make the title of this thread correct, maybe you should delete the "natural" food part and add take care of their finances, it would ring more true.-DMG

Taking care of finances predicates restructuring a lifestyle that integrates Yoga classes/food discipline. Personally, I would like to see sistas picking up Wu-su training...

...from a "twisting horse" into a split profiling with a single sided halberd. Gorgeous.

Seven Half Store said...

PREACH DV!!!

My first class of theater arts/dance students in the "inner city schools" area were a very active bunch. They seemed to have extremely short attention spans and whatever they were doing in class for the day did nothing for them as they expressed to me.

They wore me out with questions, complaints, problems...energy without control.

Damn this, I said to myself I'm bringing a yoga dvd.

I turned off the lights I used the school's butcher paper for faux yoga mats. Told them no talking at all. 45 minutes later I heard something I had never heard before.
SILENCE. They were so still and calm and open to hear everything. Once a week I think all kids should do it for P.E. ....

gotta look into educational reform when I really feel like fighting in the pits of hell...lol

Sasha said...

I'm looking for a good yoga DVD. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Seven Half Store said...

@ Sasha

I like Bryan Kest Power Yoga.

Illmath said...

I'd rather see an Indian woman/man teaching me about yoga...preferably a woman.

Anonymous said...

Ill,

I can agree with you on that. I'm kind of a purist in that way. I want my marshall arts to be taught by a little Asian man too. I know it probably doesn't make a difference but it just doesn't feel right any other way. Same with Yoga I guess.

Anonymous said...

whoops martial...not marshall

Illy from Cali said...

I don't know if youre being serious but I'd take Mr. Mayagi or Bruce Lee over Chuck Norris any day...

CNu said...

Did you know that Bruce Lee's wing chun sifu Yip Man, is widely considered to have been the first master to take wushu instruction out of its esoteric/private sphere and to teach it publicly - and - that the wing chun style and practice was invented by a woman?

Seven Half Store said...

@ Illy

Yeahh I feel that but you know a lot of American teachers, the hard core yogis, travel to India to study or they usually train under Indian yogis in the U.S.

I threw that out to Sasha because Bryan is really nice to look at...hee hee hee. ;)

Seven Half Store said...

Gee Chee,

Thanks for the mention. I'm going to my first Wushu training this Wednesday.

Excited!! and Afraid!

CNu said...

@geechee Indian Shaolin

CNu said...

Very interesting in light of the history, antiquity, sophistication - and genesis of Chinese martial arts by Bodhidharma - of Indian martial arts

Anonymous said...

That's beautiful Mahogany. I've always seen women, smaller petite guys and younger people excel. Larger dudes especially in their 20's and up, Wushu busts our knees up. Weight and leverage thing I'm assuming. Do you know what forms you all will cover.

Anonymous said...

Very interesting in light of the history, antiquity, sophistication - and genesis of Chinese martial arts by Bodhidharma-CNU

Some argue (of coarse coming from practitioners of Shaolin Kung Fu) that claim wasn't asserted until long after the passing of Bodhidharma. That the theology was integrated into an already thriving fighting arts. I'm sure their are historical works yet to be translated. Would love to see a debate from both sides.

CNu said...

Bodhidharma aside, sastravidya - and detailed references to the same - predates any Chinese martial art by many centuries. If we assume a Dravidian origin, and include techniques borrowed from yoga, then I'm comfortably pushing the southern asian origins back millenia before anything resembling it appeared in China.

Internal chinese martial arts are a later medieval development, you know, all that good Wudang mountain taoist alchemy taiji sword type isht an whatnot.....,

Seven Half Store said...

Gee

busting up kneeeeees?!! lmao. Very afraid.........but still excited!

No, I dont know. I'm in California. The studio is of course geared to the film industry with competitive teams, stunt, aerial and weapons training, though I'm sure I wont be doing any of that soon. My coaches are a husband/wife team, I think.

Did I mention I quit college jiu jitsu lol.....but I'm excited!!!

it is as beautiful to look at as you say. Since I like using my body to perform..beautifully, I'll keep that as my motivation while I'm being broken physically lol

by the way, I cant get one girlfriend to go down with me.....see what I mean DV.

Dawolu Jabari Anderson said...

Bodhidharma aside, sastravidya - and detailed references to the same - predates any Chinese martial art by many centuries. If we assume a Dravidian origin, and include techniques borrowed from yoga, then I'm comfortably pushing the southern asian origins back millenia before anything resembling it appeared in China.-CNu

Interesting. I suppose it's an organic/inevitable cycle that an innovation of one nation becomes adopted and performed elsewhere.