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What mid-life crisis?

Older Nordic walkers may have taken up Nordic walking after taking stock of their lives. That is, after looking at health numbers, quality of life, or personal directions, you may have added Nordic walking to your activities to improve your overall well-being.

An article in the Wall Street Journal described the latest version of taking stock, what we often call the mid-life crisis.

Key takeaway: “Many people facing midlife now don’t want to blow up their lives, just upgrade them.”

Points:

  • “Doctors, health resorts, meditation teachers and adventure travel companies say they are seeing growing numbers of people in their 40s and early 50s seeking to change their lives after having a midlife epiphany.”
  • “…there is a growing awareness of how lifestyle influences health that is shaping many midlifers’ decisions.”
  • “The midlife journey will be more difficult for a good chunk of them because of heightened problems of inequality.”
  • “Canyon Ranch, which operates destination spas that offer preventive health care services, says it is seeing more midlife clients who are beginning to feel the signs of aging.”
  • “'Midlife is the age where people kind of sit back and say, ‘Well, now that I’m all grown up, what do I really want to be?,”

Where are you in your reflections on life?

A different way to look at meal prep

I came across an article that could be a way to apply Nordic Walking Guy’s 3rd rule, “Don’t eat like a teenager!”

Key idea:

Today, cooking is trendy in Japan.

Instagram is full of pictures of delicious dishes, and people love clicking through online recipes. Cookbooks are in high demand.

[Japanese private chef Shima] Tassin says Japanese people need to stop feeling pressured to make elaborate dishes.

Major points:

  • “’Japanese recipes are generally very complicated to make as you need a lot of ingredients that you end up not really having to use again. But people still choose to cook like this because they want to get as many likes on social media as possible,’ she [Shima] says.”
  • “The French, on the other hand love simple dishes, she says. For breakfast, for example, adults like to have a coffee with milk and toast, while children might eat cereal. The simple meals give families more time to spend together.”

Tassin’s simplicity principle is designed to increase the quantity and quality of time families spend together. There could be another benefit. For people who are fine tuning their diet, the simplicity principle could be a boon. I’ve noticed the more convenient foods tend to have less nutritional value and meals that have maximum nutritional value take more effort to prepare.

Maybe simplicity ideas from people like Shima Tassin can motivate us to upgrade our planning.

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