{"id":1269,"date":"2009-11-04T18:35:08","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T17:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/?p=1269"},"modified":"2009-11-04T18:35:47","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T17:35:47","slug":"running-is-bad-for-your-knees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/running-is-bad-for-your-knees\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Running is bad for your knees&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/57249471@N00\/3646605208\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo\" border=\"0\" alt=\"dorkbot\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3395\/3646605208_2588924529.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It always amazed me at how two-faced our society is. On one hand, everyone is talking about exercise and healthy living\/eating\/etc, while on the other they&#8217;re criticizing and discouraging anyone who actually decided to follow the advices everyone is so full of.<\/p>\n<p>The first one I always hear is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>running is bad for your knees, you&#8217;ll have trouble later if your running on pavement\/dirt\/at all<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sadly, this is often the most <em>encouraging<\/em> thing people can say once they learned that someone decided to start exercising and already went for a few runs. There is often no alternative suggested, beside the one where you go for a beer with them instead.<\/p>\n<p>I imagine the world is full similar excuses for other sports<strong> <\/strong>and this is not limited to running.<\/p>\n<p>The second one, that I love is that once I start thinking about the food I eat. Mind you, just thinking and wondering what&#8217;s healthy. The answer is usually:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>you have to eat meat and diary products because otherwise you&#8217;ll get malnutrition and sick<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>once again, coming from the people who survive their days on pizza and fried steaks, as you suggest that maybe having a more vegetable rich lunch might be a good idea (and I&#8217;m not talking about salads). Based on my anecdotal experience, the abuse received from conformist eaters must the be the hardest part of such diet.<\/p>\n<p><em>Feel free to comment with the excuses you hear for not doing something that is good for you.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It always amazed me at how two-faced our society is. On one hand, everyone is talking about exercise and healthy living\/eating\/etc, while on the other they&#8217;re criticizing and discouraging anyone who actually decided to follow the advices everyone is so full of. The first one I always hear is: running is bad for your knees, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[434,823,822,927,419],"class_list":["post-1269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant","tag-advice","tag-crowd","tag-excuses","tag-rant","tag-society"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1269"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1275,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions\/1275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}