The E4T Exercise Blog is quick reminder to all of us to get up and move for a few minutes (5 minutes) each hour. If you like you can post your intensions.u Then you can come back and let us know how your doing.
I’m sticking to the hall-walking tonight. On the hour.l What about you?
whatever form your exercise will take, I would like to remind all that “Honey, We’re Killing the Kids” comes on at 9 PM hour of New York on The Learning Channel, channel 280 on most DirecTV boxes.
This is a show where a nutrition and health expert is sent to a family with terrible eating and exercise habits. She puts them on a 3 week intensive program to change their lifestyles drastically, first showing the parents computer simulations of what their kids will look like at 40 if they continue on their current course.
While the show will be of special interest to parents, obviously, the first episode last week made me think that it had some good material for anybody who is struggling to make lifestyle and diet changes.
And since it is a RLC reality show, of course it is incredibly stupid and thereby constitutes high art with excellent hearty laughter potential, and hearty laughter counts as exercise.
This does not mean you should fail to walk or stretch or hop during the commercials, just that you will receive an additional cardiovascular benefit from laughing at the show, even as you receive the benefit of getting very good lifestyle change tips.
As an added bonus, the show is followed by “Shalom in the Home” where a rabbi in an RV is sent to help troubled families by among other things, speaking into their ears like Karen Hughes does to Bush, so they learn what to say to their family members, and thereby bring about Shalom in the Home.
We been watching honey, we’re killing the kids — wow. I think the kids looked just like the parents in the aging simulation — I don’t know why the parent’s were so upset about it.
They’re about to reveal the simulation after the changes. Oh, they smile and shave in the new simulation! So eating healthy when you’re 13 means you shave and smile 40 years later.
LOL yes, it reminds me of the commercials for beauty products where in the before picture the lady is in bad light with no makeup, unstyled hair and a sour expression, but in the after picture, not only has she used the product, she has been to the hair salon, applied glamourous makeup, ususally including artificial eyelashes, and sits in a soft flattering lighting wearing a beatific smile.
Exactly.
We went out to do an errand and now we’re watching Medium. (and missing Shalom in the Home, I’m afraid)
Darting in just long enough to say I took my 30 minute walk behind a lawn mower today. Ciao.
You’re in luck! Both Killing the Kids and Shalom rerun, Killing Kids at 11 Eastern, Shalom at midnight.
Arrrrgggg!! Noooo!!
I especially like the way Dr. Lisa makes her pronouncements to the parents on a set that looks like a combination medieval dungeon and abandoned warehouse.
And next week’s family promises to be even more annoying, the same theme as the other two episodes, plump parents who have allowed their spoiled whiny boys to spend their lives watching TV with hands full of sweetmeats!