... continued from Cover Start walking a mile or two every day (every day is key) and work your way up. This is a great way to build your endurance — and it’s also a great way to develop a healthy, ongoing habit. By the time you get to your destination, you’ll be ready to be on your feet for longer. Be sure to stay hydrated. This is huge, and even more so in the summer months. I can’t speak for every theme park, but the Disney parks are very good about helping their guests stay hydrated. While you can’t bring in a filled bottle of water (they prohibit outside beverages), you can bring in an empty bottle and fill it in the park. You can go to virtually any restaurant and ask to fill your bottle. Staying hydrated helps you avoid fatigue and muscle tiredness/ soreness, which helps keep your energy up overall. Use the benches. Theme parks, Disney included, are littered with benches. If you need to sit, do it. There really isn’t any reason to continue standing or walking if you don’t need to. Take breaks (and make sure everyone in the group takes them) whenever you feel the need. Sitting on the bench is also a great time to recharge your batteries. Get some water, put on your headphones, and listen to your favorite podcast or tunes for a few minutes. And on that note, don’t forget your headphones. Standing in line or waiting around is an excellent time for podcasts, audiobooks, and music. Not only does it help take your mind out of the crowds, but it can also be relaxing in an otherwise unrelaxing setting.
Don’t forget the footwear! This one is easy to overlook. If you know you’re going to be spending a lot of time on your feet during your vacation, get footwear that’s up to the task. I recommended getting a good pair of shoes (or two) a few weeks before the trip. This way, you’ll have time to break them in. You want something ideal for walking, standing, and overall comfort. Pair them with supportive insoles and you’re ready. After spending hours at Disney or any other theme park, feet are usually the first to get tired, and good shoes can help mitigate that. Chances are, if your feet still feel great after the vacation, the rest of you will, too.
With that, I hope you have a great summer no matter what you have planned. Have fun and stay safe! Kale, Seaweed, and Other Not-So-New Superfoods
There’s nothing so trendy as a new superfood or diet, and the “in vogue” ones change constantly. Older readers may remember the Atkins diets and other fads of the early 2000s, but younger ones may not even remember a time before the paleo diet was a thing — and it’s already almost a thing of the past. Many things we associate with these trends, though, are anything but new.
We see this most clearly with the grains we turn to in the name of health. Westerners generally wouldn’t be familiar with quinoa, amaranth, teff, or kamut if it weren’t for their presence in the hippest healthy-eating Instagram feeds. Many of these foods hail from Africa or the Far East, so it’s understandable we don’t know them all — but there’s nothing really new about them. People in the Americas and the Old World have eaten quinoa for 3,000–5,000 years. Teff, which is technically a grass seed, was one of the first domesticated plants, emerging thousands of years ago in what is now Ethiopia. Alternate sources of protein and fiber show a similar trend. Seaweed — the perennial favorite of Twitter dieters everywhere — has been consumed in China, Korea, and Japan since before recorded history. If you know anything about recorded history in those regions, then you know that’s a long time! And kale, whose reputation precedes itself, has been cultivated since at least 2,000 B.C. in Greece, Asia Minor, and other parts of the Mediterranean. So, the next time you dig into your favorite health food, take a moment to Google what you are eating. You might be part of a long line of human beings who have turned to that food for sustenance over the millennia!
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