Welcome

Hey guys,

My name is Aaron and I am currently a freshman at MIT. It's been a heck of a semester and one of the biggest challenges at a school known for all-nighters and crazy eating (we don't have centralized dining because the admins couldn't get everyone to eat at the same time) has been maintaining good health and fitness. Because of this, I want to share my research and offer a resource for those in similar situations or those who are just interested in healthy habits.

This blog isn't going to be all about "I decided to cut carbs and do cardio for 12 minutes every morning," rather I want to incorporate things like how I came to view food in general, which some of you may have some experience with if you've read books such as The Omnivore's Dilemma or In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan or Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser. In the past two years, I have learned to think of food as more than sustenance-it is capital, it is culture, and it is government. It affects the environment, the economy, and our state-of-being. Touching on the topic of global warming (I really don't think that needs a hyperlink at this point), food in the near future could become a source of world conflict. Our agricultural industry is based on our knowledge of how to respond to the current climate-the hydrological, carbon, and nitrogen cycles among other things.

Even from the beginning of this entry, I have reconsidered everything I want to write about in this blog. I hope that it will be inconstant evolution, incorporating different things such as healthy living (in terms of nutrition and sustainability) and branching out into politics (maybe?). This blog will be a record of my attempts simply to live healthfully, happily, and purposefully.

Thanks for being here.