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See article keywords and concepts |  It's not a backpack, but it serves the function of a backpack, only in a smarter way. The backTpack can carry loads of weight, but it distributes it on your body in a way that makes instant sense. Basically, you have the same straps and shoulder support of a backpack, but instead of the weight being held behind you, it's held to your sides (with one half on your left and the other half on your right) where it's naturally closer to your center of gravity. | | In fact, just putting on a weighted backpack can injure people because of the twisting motion of the spine and the abnormal lifting of weight.
The other problem with backpacks -- and I'm sure all of you who have done any hiking can certainly understand this one -- is that when you're carrying stuff in the backpack, you can't get to it easily. What good is having all this stuff in your pack, if you can't reach it? | | When you wear a regular backpack on an airplane, you can't sit down wearing it. You have to take it off. The seat's just not big enough for your body and a backpack, but you could sit down while wearing the backTpack. You would just have to loosen up the waist strap a little bit and pull the sidesaddle bags forward while you sit down, and then you would have full access to all your gear while sitting there.
So, what kind of gear could you fit in there? | | I would end up walking dehydrated or going hungry longer than I should have because I didn't want to mess with the backpack.
Well, the backTpack product solves this problem quite effectively. Everything is reachable, even while you're wearing it. You don't have to go through any strange, yoga-like contortions to get to the items you're carrying in this backTpack. You just unzip the pockets on the sides or undo the Velcro or reach into the front pockets. | | The seat's just not big enough for your body and a backpack, but you could sit down while wearing the backTpack. You would just have to loosen up the waist strap a little bit and pull the sidesaddle bags forward while you sit down, and then you would have full access to all your gear while sitting there.
So, what kind of gear could you fit in there? You could easily fit a laptop computer, books, pads of paper, water bottles, cell phones, portable MP3 players or any other device you might want to carry with you when you're traveling. |
David Steinman
See book keywords and concepts |  I pass by Route 58, which Dad and I took everywhere into the mountains when I was kid when we were going up to the Sierra Nevada to backpack and fish. I wanted to go back into the mountains with my sons, and I hope that they will be able to do so with theirs and that some family stories will be passed along. I like the sense of continuity, and I'm trying so damn hard to see that the continuum keeps on. One thing is clear to me now in my fifth decade: my dad kept me away from the reality of the valley floor. |
Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
See book keywords and concepts |  At Cacaxtla we see the old, aquiline-nosed god of the Maya merchants and cacao-growers, Ek Chuah (or God L); with his traveling staff in hand, he stands resting before a cacao tree, his huge backpack propped up behind him. In other episodes depicted in the Cacaxtla mural program, a mighty battle is being fought in gory detail, and Putiin heroes (or perhaps gods) dance in Maya-Mexican costume, carrying Maya royal paraphernalia.19
How should we interpret Cacaxtla? | | The normal load of cacao in the backpack of a trader or porter was three xiquipillis, or 24,000 beans.
We are told by one source15 that to maintain the palace and court of Nezahualcoyotl (the king of Texcoco), his majordomo had to supply, among other items of food, no less than four xiquipillis of cacao on a daily basis—this is 32,000 beans.16 This amounts to 11,680,000 beans annually, or just over 486 loads. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
See book keywords and concepts |  She and David also want to backpack again, but she asks, "Will we be able to? What if I bleed and we're too far from help?" She also dreams of rejoining overseas medical missions to help children. But she's not willing to risk falling sick far from U.S. borders. "U.S. doctors don't know much about autoimmune diseases in general and APS in particular," she explains. "What about doctors in the remote parts of India or Belarus or Kenya or Brazil or the other places I have worked?"
Despite all this, she pushes herself to ride her bike, swim, and even run as often as she can. |
Dan Buettner
See book keywords and concepts |  Armed with these insights and a backpack full of academic papers, David, Gianluca, Marisa, and I finally left the coast for Sardinia's Blue Zone. As we drove into the island's central highlands, we entered quite another world. The road snaked upward through increasingly rocky terrain that showed little evidence of human impact. Indeed, Sardinia consisted almost entirely of mountainous terrain as
"My tongue still works perfectly, "says Raffaella Monne, 107. "I can talk a lot. " it rose toward the massive Gennargentu range to the east. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  This includes leaving your plastic water bottle in your car during errands, in your backpack during hikes, and running it through your dishwasher or using harsh detergents. What's more, a 2003 study conducted by the University of Missouri published in the journal, Environmental Health Perspectives, found that detectable levels of BPA leached into liquids at room temperature. This means just having your plastic water bottle sitting on your desk can be potentially harmful. The best thing to do is to avoid plastic altogether. |
Shannon Brownlee
See book keywords and concepts |  When a kid came in with a sore back, he would tell her parents that a referral to an orthopedist wasn't necessary; she just needed to put fewer books in her backpack. But all that explaining took time, and time was the one thing he didn't have if he was going to see five patients an hour.
Primary care doctors found themselves in a catch-22. On the one hand, with managed care squeezing their fees, they had to see more patients in order to make any money. |
Michael J. Panzner
See book keywords and concepts |  In place of welfare and other taxpayer-funded assistance programs, suffering families will have little choice but to turn to a shrinking universe of overburdened charities and informal support networks, such as "backpack clubs," where children fill up empty packs on Fridays with donated food so they will have something to eat over the weekend.
During the early 1930s, families were forced to split up or move elsewhere in search of employment. Some ended up in shantytowns, known as "Hoovervilles" after Herbert Hoover, who was president when the Great Depression began. |
David Steinman
See book keywords and concepts | | Suzuki came in and greeted me, twinkle in his eyes, backpack slung casually over his shoulder. He looked like Pat Morita, the late actor whose role as sensei in The Karate Kid did so much to elevate martial arts to a spiritual as well as physical quest for millions of American children. I wanted to meet Suzuki for a long time. He is a seminal figure in the global environmental movement; yet, because he is considered to be a man of wisdom and vision, he has astutely avoided politicizing the environment. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Pack a piece of fruit or some cut-up vegetables in your briefcase or backpack and carry moist towelettes for easy cleanup.
• Add fruits and vegetables to lunch by having them in soup, in salad, or cut up raw.
• Increase portions when you serve vegetables. One easy way of doing so is adding fresh greens, such as Swiss chard, coliards, or beet greens, to stir-fries.
• Add extra varieties of vegetables when you prepare soups, sauces, and casseroles. For example, add grated carrots and zucchini to spaghetti sauce. |
Alex Steffen
See book keywords and concepts |  Portable Light Reading Mats are covered with fabric that illuminates a school desktop, and are integrated into a larger Reading Stool, which folds into a backpack. Students can group their stools together to form a learning station. The stool itself is a traditional Huichol design, and therein lies an essential ingredient in the project: the technology is brought into a new context and modified, customized, and embedded into the local aesthetic. Kennedy's objective is to create Portable Light "light kits" so that textile artists can weave flexible solar panels and lighting directly into fabric. |
Michele Simon
See book keywords and concepts |  Life in such a universe means waking up in SpongeBob bedding in a room with SpongeBob wallpaper and SpongeBob furniture; eating SpongeBob Pop-Tarts for breakfast; going to school with a SpongeBob lunchbox and SpongeBob backpack; wearing a SpongeBob T-shirt; playing a SpongeBob video game after school; covering up a scrape with a SpongeBob Band-Aid; bathing with a SpongeBob towel and SpongeBob shower curtain; eating
SpongeBob macaroni and cheese for dinner; brushing your teeth with a SpongeBob toothbrush and SpongeBob toothpaste; and climbing back into your SpongeBob bed and SpongeBob pajamas. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
See book keywords and concepts |  If you are going to be someplace in snake country that is really far from civilization, having one of these kits in your backpack is a necessity. After you use it, transport to the nearest hospital is still required so that proper care can be administered. moccasins), and a variety of rattlesnakes. Approximately 9,000 Americans are bitten by poisonous snakes each year, most commonly in the summer months, in grassy or rocky environments. However, only about 25 percent of these bites involve venom—that is, the snake saves its venom for its prey, not necessarily for defense. |
Michael T. Murray
See book keywords and concepts |  Pack a piece of fruit or some cut-up vegetables in your briefcase or backpack; carry moist towelettes for easy cleanup. j ?Add fruits and vegetables to lunch by having them in soup, in salad, or cut up raw. ₫At dinner, serve microwaved or steamed vegetables, j ?Increase portion sizes when you serve vegetables.
; ?Choose fresh fruit for dessert. For a special dessert, try a fruit parfait with lowj fat yogurt or sherbet topped with lots of berries.
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John A. McDougall
See book keywords and concepts |  How many grandpas do you know who regularly windsurf in the deep blue ocean or strap their grandson into a backpack to carry him on a mountainous hiking adventure? Because of proper diet, this is the kind of health I enjoy today.
You'll also meet two of my patients, Larry and Louise Borton, who likewise found their way back to health by following the same plan that revolutionized my life. Their story is retold again and again in the hundreds of patients I've seen restored to good health and vitality during my thirty years of medical practice. |
Eric R. Braverman
See book keywords and concepts |  The girl could not leave the kittens at the construction site, so she put them in her backpack and took them to school. At the end of the day, she sold the kittens to classmates for $10 each.
Questions for Story 2
1. Was the story about a boy or a girl?_
2. What day of the week was it?_
3. Where was she walking to?__
4. What did she pass on her way to school?_
5. What was the building made of?_
6. What was happening to the building? _
7. How many men were working on it?_
8. What street did she turn onto?_
9. What did she hear as she turned the corner?_
10. |
Jeremy P. Tarcher
See book keywords and concepts |  From her beaten-up backpack on the floor next to me, Anna pulls out a book to brush up on what we're about to see. Opening to a chapter on Indian food traditions, she starts reading aloud, but at the second sentence she stops. Puzzled, I peer over her shoulder and read, as she has, the Sanskrit word for food. It is "anna."
We look at each other, stunned. Almost thirty years ago, at exactly the age Anna is now, I wrote Diet for a Small Planet, exploring the question: Why hunger in a world of plenty? | | On the way out the door to Logan Airport for our flight from Boston to Sao Paulo, I'd thrown a copy of Barry Schwartz's book, The Battle for Human Nature, into my backpack. I figured I might want to divert my mind at some point from harsh realities to more philosophic thoughts. It didn't dawn on me then that what I was about to witness in Brazil would be nothing less than that: the battle for human nature.
CHAPTER
BEAUTIFUL HORIZON
To search for solutions to hunger means to act within the principle that the status of a citizen surpasses that of a mere consumer. | | The minivan stops, and in the moment it takes to grab my backpack and climb out, Anna's already been swept away. All I can see of my daughter is her long, brown plaid skirt swaying, the same skirt that I'd followed two months ago over high Himalayan trails in India.
From a distance, I can see Anna dancing, hands held high, with women dressed in brightly colored grass skirts and white T-shirts. They draw Anna and the fifteen others pouring out of our minivans into their contagious welcome dance. | | Stuffing my notebook into my backpack and bidding adieu to this energetic, thoughtful man, I feel lighter. Bruno doesn't know Rene Louail in Brittany, or Hannes Lorenzen in Brussels, or the farmers we met in Brazil, India, or Kenya for that matter. But they all seem lit with the same flame, each in a unique way dissolving the thoughts traps that have so long constrained us.
A Tiny Tax
When I wrote Diet for a Small Planet, I was appalled by the sharp skewing of world wealth, but I could never have imagined then that thirty years later the gap would be even wider, much wider. |
Arthur Agatston, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  The plan requires snacks between meals, but the kind that can be thrown into a briefcase or backpack in the morning and eaten on the run. Our diet is also distinguished by the absence of calorie counts; percentage counts of fats, carbs, and proteins; or even rules about portion size. Our major concern is that dieters eat good carbs and good fats. Once that's all under control, portions and percentages take care of themselves. By choosing the right carbs and the right fats, you simply won't be hungry all the time. |
Richard P. Brown, M.D., and Patricia L. Gerbarg, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Fortunately, Dick had a spare bottle of Rhodiola rosea in his backpack. He handed the bottle to Sam, who was rushing to catch a ride to the airport en route to his next destination. Two weeks later, Sam sent an e-mail of thanks praising his newfound energy booster.
Like Sam, Nancy was so accustomed to pushing herself that she didn't realize just how depleted her energy stores were. And at age 45, she was too busy and revved up to pay much attention to the changes that were taking place in her body and brain. |
Michael Castleman
See book keywords and concepts |  Buy a backpack. Instead of driving to all your errands, walk as much as possible and use your backpack to stash those little purchases.
Cancel "food dates." Instead of meeting friends for lunch, coffee or dessert, make dates to take walks, go dancing or go for bike rides. Or make a date to visit a health club. Most clubs allow free one-time visits to check out the facility. Try several.
Walk your dog. If you don't have one, consider getting one. Dogs are great exercise companions.
Make breaks count. During TV commercials or breaks at work, get up and stretch or walk around. |
Maesimund B. Panos, M.D. and Jane Heimlich
See book keywords and concepts |  If you're planning to backpack or live in an area infested with these venomous creatures, it would be wise for you to obtain the preparations mentioned above. beyond first aid: Apply an ice pack to the bite to slow the spread of the poison, and then rush the victim to the nearest hospital emergency room. Meanwhile, give one of the remedies mentioned above.
BURNS
Burns range from insignificant although painful injuries to life-threatening ones. The extent of body surface affected is a key to the seriousness of the injury. |
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