Finally the day I have been hoping for the whole of my adult life has arrived.
Today I read a story that a “little” alcohol every day can be healthy. Isn’t that just the best news? OK, so they actually say a little alcohol combined with a healthy active lifestyle ‘may’ be the best recipe for life.
I have only ever drank “a little”. For instance, when I go to the shop to get my “little” quantity of alcohol, I see a shop full of it. There are bottles and cans as far as the eye can see. And there are hundreds, no thousands, of these shops worldwide. They are all over the world in almost every country. That’s a LOT of alcohol.
So when I buy a crate of beers and a bottle or 2 of whisky, that’s just a “little”, right? And if I drink that crate of 36 cans and 2 bottles of whisky in a week, that is just the tip of the iceberg of alcohol available in the world. So after all this time worrying (well, it came in to my mind once, but I drowned it out with a beer) that I might drink too much, now I find out that I am actually super healthy.
Of course, there is the small issue of the “active lifestyle” to contend with. But I am conscious of the world around me, and therefore I make my active lifestyle a part of my carbon footprint.
With all the news about carbon footprints, I decided that mine is pretty much spot on.
I drive everywhere I go. It makes sense. I drive to work, as to go by train I have almost a mile walk, of which is all up hill. By the time I get there, I am sweating, hot and bothered. Hot? Heat? Oohh…that’s going to increase global warming. The same walk when I get home means I go in the shower and use more electricity to power the shower.
Then there is the train. That train goes for miles and miles over and over again. Back and forth. Hundreds of miles a day. I only want 3 stops to work. So that train is wasting all that electricity to get me 3 stops to work.
Therefore, I use my car.
I have a great relationship with my car. It sits there waiting for me all day and night. Or at least knows when I want to go out, so it works its social life around me. And in return, I take it for drives, I let it play my favourite music and I feed it that petrol stuff it loves so much. And the walk to my car and from my car to the office is a lot shorter then getting the train. It is a relationship made in heaven.
And the art of driving is healthier then the train. The moving your feet to the pedals, the arm moving the steering wheel, the hand changing the stereo or saying thank you to someone who let you in. Then you have your lungs. Singing to your hearts content as no one can hear you thus long deep breaths giving your brain more oxygen.
You don’t get that kind of exercise on a train. You sit there with your MP3 player on or read a paper or stare out of the window not making eye contact with anyone else on the train as otherwise they may try to start a conversation with you. And you are breathing in other peoples germs. Thus you go buy flu remedies which is adding to global warming to make them.
So to summarise why cars are better then trains for your health and the environment.
Car – bodily movement (exercise!) and makes you feel better when you get to work as you aren’t all sweaty, bothered and increasing global warming with that underarm sweat. You don’t have to ignore anyone in case they talk to you as you are in the car alone. Driving a car increases your overall bodily health.
Train – You kill trees because you have to read your paper. Or create waste with disposable batteries from your MP3 player or if you have rechargeable, you are plugging it in to the wall to charge it. The electricity needed to power a train waiting for me to get on is enormous. You are also getting ill more then me. You people on trains are killing the environment! Have you no shame?
Therefore, drive to work and back and when you get in, have as much alcohol as you want. It is the way to a healthier life according to the BBC News page!
Here’s the link in case you are interested: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7177506.stm
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