Bites On Back And Hip

life slow or slow: A new way of doing

all started when a famous Italian gastronome Carlo Petrini organized a noisy demonstration, more than two decades, the Plaza of Spain in Rome prevent opening a McDonald's restaurant.

For a country like Italy where the food is a ritual and a way to interact, socialize, and to seduce, the installation of a fast food restaurant was an insult.

"Because eating is part of our cultural identity. In nature we find the raw material, but we, for our food, we transform the product. The cuisine is a cultural event. But his reaction was not in vain. It was born thanks to Slow Food, an organization working to prevent the standardization of taste and keep food traditions of the countries.

This movement has today 100 thousand members in 107 nations, people who seek pleasure gourmet, health and vital rhythms slow and thoughtful.

Petrini's view: "The situation today in the world is quite serious. Especially since the motherland suffer stress. We exaggerated in the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers and
earth is tired. And that must be added that every day we lose genetic varieties of fruits, vegetables, animals ... We have learned much from nature. We have applied the concept
industrial agriculture, and there is the origin of the current worrying situation, a situation that is environmentally unsustainable. Yes, we are in danger. "

Praise of Slowness

confessed According to El Mundo of Spain, "food today are manufactured to the tenets of a kind of food design: through the aromas, taste enhancers, preservatives , dyes. Our tastes are manipulated within the laboratory. Especially the children, who are conditioned. This is something very serious in countries like Italy, Spain, France or Greece, Mediterranean places where food culture was always of farmers. "

But this concept has also grown, very soon Carl Honoré, a Canadian journalist living in London, a columnist for several major magazines published his famous book, "In Praise of Slowness", which declared war against the clock to recover natural rhythms of family, work, food and education.

"Replacing the cult of speed by the cult of slowness would be a mistake," the author says, "I propose to devote time to the things they deserve. Slow. As an emergency measure, I suggest we turn off the TV more than four hours on average sitting in front of this device, "take a paper and a pencil, make a list of daily activities and begin to cross out the extras. Afraid to inactivity. We look for shortcuts. We put the quantity rather than quality. Slow motion and puts quality over quantity ". Rate

our era as the "age of rage", where the rush, he says, "makes the people are always ready to explode, normal people, good people, in a block in transport is capable of crazy. I think we're touching the breaking point. It shows in the public health problems, depression, stress, anxiety, obesity, "the failure of the couple the difficulty to relate, the high absenteeism. And you know the worst? We caught the virus from the speed at children. one of the first words they learn is "hurry." In our children's unstructured time, invented stories and games. Now childhood anxiety is common . "

Movement in Chile Chile

not fallen behind in this movement. There are several communities followers of these requirements, among which Slowdown ( www.slowdown.cl ), created by Jorge Mendez, Uruguayan businessman, who lives 14 years ago in our country. Notes that the group was in order that people "down a little on the gas pedal." Raised this concept as a change in life, a quest for balance.

Méndez mentioned that Chile is one Latin American countries more consumers of drugs related to stress and depression. "One must consider whether it should take a break in life and wonder what they want out of life: money?," Power? "," Health? "Fun?," Friends?, "Adventures? prioritizing and go without fear, in order to find happiness, "he said.

explained that this movement was born with a group of friends from various countries such as Argentina, Italy, Peru and Chile, and everyone asked (regardless of their idiosyncrasies) and how much acceleration, and how to seek a balanced life, where are combining work, family, sports, hobbies, good food and health. "I began to internalize the issue and I found a book called" In Praise of Slowness by Carl Honore and wrote him to ask him what's all this "slowdown." I said and began to make friends, and today we are doing several things together, one of which is soon to give a talk in Santiago. "

How Practicing Slow Life

• Develop a hobby or hobby quiet.
• do not expect everything at once.
• little clock Look: The weekends get out of bed, respecting the natural sleep rhythms, rather than set the alarm.
• shopping in a fresh market.
• quiet Eating: Taste the food, turn off the TV and enjoy the company someone.
• On Vacation: slow down, do not try to know or everything you like to go visit.
• Limit the list of things to do : Take time for people and activities that you enjoy.
• not watch much TV: Studies suggest that people watch TV for 8 years of his life.

Source: "Choose to live healthy." Link: http://www.eligevivirsano.cl/disfruta-a-tu-familia/vida-lenta-o-slow-una-nueva-forma-de-funcionar