Page 10 <strong>Around</strong> <strong>Town</strong> Take A Class...Have Some Fun and Learn a New Craft Zukes Woodworkz Cliff Dwellers Lorelei Candles Firefly Glass Studio Sparky’s Glassblowing A. Jann Peitso, Art! Fowler’s Clay Works Lorelei Candles - Dip Your Own Candle" every day except Wednesday's & Sunday's - 865-436-9214 - 331 Glades Rd. - choose from a variety of candle styles to dip for a small fee Zukes Woodworkz - <strong>May</strong> 12, 1:00p - 4:00p - Call 865- 805-2614 - Located at 522 Buckhorn Rd. Class limited to 6 people. Build your own garden décor wheelbarrow approx. 18” long. See our Facebook page for more info. Cliff Dwellers - Pat Thomas <strong>May</strong> 27 & 28. 865-436-6921, 668 Glades Rd - marble a beautiful silk scarf! All materials will be provided. Before the workshop, a 14" x 72" silk scarf will be dyed & prepared for you. All you have to do is choose your favorite colors & pattern from sample scarves. You will have guidance & help to create your own original marbled silk scarf. You will receive easy instructions to complete the process after class so your marbled scarf will be colorfast & washable. Make one for yourself or a gift for someone special! 1 or 2 people 10a-11:30; 12p - 1:30; 2p - 3:30; 4p - 5:30 Firefly Glass Studio - Offered Daily - 865-206-6083 - Located 830 Moyers Drive. "You Create" experience in fused glass. Fused glass is a fun, forgiving medium for all ages. Choose from several reasonably priced projects such as a trinket tray, ornament, magnet or pendant. Upon completion, your masterpiece will be fired in a kiln at 1500 degrees and shipped. Sparky’s Glassblowing - Classes daily from 9-4. By appointment only, please call 865-325-8186. Must be 18 years of age and older. 849 Glades Rd, #1C4. A. Jann Peitso, Art! - Offers 2 hour watercolor classes, all artist grade materials furnished. Call 865-436-2363 for details and to schedule painting time when it is convenient for you. Children's painting activities available when Jann is in the shop. Located at 170 Glades Rd #3. Fowler’s Clay Works - Make a mug experience runs several days and times a week, stop by the shop, Facebook message us, or email fowlersclayworks@outlook.com. We are located at 1402 East Parkway, Unit #10. Never Paint Your Nails Again! Free Samples! Contact me on Facebook: facebook.com/ccmassey.color My website: mycolorstreet.com/ccmassey No tools ! No heater ! Last two weeks ! Cheryl Massey Why Japanese Women Stay Slim and Don’t Look Old Continued from Page 8 Before you eat, notice how hungry you really are. It’s best to adopt a mindful approach to eating. When you sit down for a meal, do so without distractions like TV. Eat slowly and savor every bite, putting your cutlery down every few mouthfuls to slow your pace even further. This enables you to eat slower and pay more attention to what your body is telling you. Walking is a Ritual - Walking in Japan is a wonderful way to discover and explore the country. Not only do Japanese people prefer to walk in the overcrowded cities to minimize traffic congestion, walking can also be considered as a Buddhist ritual. <strong>Around</strong> 90 million people in Japan consider themselves to be Buddhists, and as such many of them undertake the practice of walking meditation. Walking meditation is an easy exercise to do as it doesn’t require any fancy equipment, you just need a comfortable pair of shoes and you’re good to go. It involves deliberately thinking about each step, instead of just walking on autopilot as you normally might. So as you walk, focus on lifting one foot, moving it forward, and putting it down on the ground. Then focus on lifting the other foot, moving it forward, and taking the next step. Notice how your body weight shifts as you begin to walk forward, and simply go forward. While it might feel pretty ridiculous to do, in practice it is simply going for a slow walk, and paying close attention to each movement. Integrating this practice into your daily schedule will benefit you in many ways. Walking is a weight-bearing exercise, and can increase heart and lung fitness, reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke, improve management of various conditions like high blood pressure, high cholesterol, muscle and joint pain and diabetes. Walking for at least 30 minutes a day can help you gain strong bones, improve your balance, increase muscle strength and endurance, and help you lose or manage weight. Just walk!! Eating on the go is a no-no - Eating on the go is one of the biggest mistakes you can make when it comes to healthy eating. In Japanese culture, it’s considered impolite to eat while you are on the go, whether you’re walking on the street or using public transport. They believe eating is a sacred time to refuel and energize the body, and as such, they devote time to every meal to sit down and focus on food. When we walk or move around, our brains are distracted by doing two (or more) things at once. Because of this, we don’t notice the signals our body sends us that tell us we’re full. Eating mindlessly means we can’t keep track of the food we’ve eaten, which is why we can eat a whole bag of crisps while watching TV, without even realizing it. To eat mindfully, ask yourself these questions: am I tasting each bite? How does my body feel right now? Full, or still hungry? Am I finding joy in this food, or am I regretful? Eating mindfully has even been believed to help psychological food disorders like binge eating and bulimia. Continued attempts at mindful eating will allow you to reconnect with your body’s cues, building a better relationship with yourself. You will also be able to manage your emotions better, as overeating can often come about from stress, depression or anxiety. Healthy Cooking Methods - When food is cooked, a large portion of nutrients can be lost depending on the technique used. The healthiest ways to cook are largely used in Japanese cuisine. Generally, there are four main cooking methods. Agemono is the most prominent way, and is similar to deep-frying but uses healthier batter like tempura. They also have mushimono, which is food prepared by steaming; nimono, boiled food; and yakimono, which is a form of broiling. eliminates the need for any additional fat to be used during preparation. Steaming preserves nutrients better than other methods, and it’s a perfect choice for cooking fish and other seafood because it doesn’t dry out the flesh. Steaming is a quick, easy way to prepare a whole meal from the meat to the vegetables, using a bamboo steamer or a saucepan. Broiling is a method of cooking that is often forgotten, though it’s one of the healthiest. Using this method is similar to grilling food in an oven, the only difference being that the heat comes from below when grilling, and from above when broiling. This is a dry-heat method of cooking, so no water or oil is needed. Lean cuts of meat like beef and chicken broil well, especially when marinated first or basted while being cooked to ensure it doesn’t dry out. Vegetables such as bell pepper, zucchini and onion are also delicious when cooked this way, and you can use this method on most food. Boiling your vegetables may sound boring, but this cooking method is actually full of health benefits. Boiled vegetables are fat-free because they aren’t cooked in anything but water, and adding them to your diet can assist in weight loss. They’re also full of fiber and are easily broken down in the stomach, which can ease pressure on the digestive system. Boiling can also aid in preventing kidney stones. This is because the process removes a large percent of oxalates from foods. They are compounds that play a key role in kidney stone formation. Hot Spring Baths - Natural hot springs, also known as onsen, are hugely popular in Japan. There are various types of hot springs, distinguishable by the minerals dissolved in the water, with each mineral providing a different health benefit. Hot springs are believed to have a relaxing effect on the body and the mind. They can be outdoors or indoors, mixed gender or separate. Hot springs may be publicly accessible or belong to a ryokan, which is a Japanese style hotel. Soaking in hot springs is known as balneotherapy and is a practice that has many health benefits. It can relieve stress, pain, skin issues and can and promote sleep. Bathing in hot springs can boost circulation, as your skin soaks up minerals such as calcium, magnesium, niacin and sodium bicarbonate. This can increase blood circulation and oxygen flow to the muscles, like when you exercise. This is beneficial in keeping your heart and other vital organs healthy and strong. Healthy Desserts - In Japan, dessert is used as a chance to cleanse and freshen the palate after a meal, rather than enjoying a heavy, sugar-laden snack. Japanese desserts often include fruits and have been developed over centuries by using available ingredients like rice and sweet beans so they are usually very low in sugar. One popular dessert in Japan is mocha, which is a rice cake made by pounding a particular style of rice – mochigome – until it becomes doughlike and sticky. Mochi can be stuffed with various fillings like sweet red bean paste, strawberries, and even ice cream. Dorayaki is another healthy dessert made from castella (a Japanese sponge cake) and topped with ingredients like chestnuts and whipped cream. In Japan, fruit sandwiches, green tea meringue cookies, and squash or pumpkin pie are also popular dessert choices. There is no reason why you can’t enjoy dessert after a meal, but Western dessert tends to be high in refined flour, sugar, caramel and other fattening ingredients, which is where the unhealthy label comes from. There are many ways to make dessert healthier by swapping out the bad ingredients for the good. Choose brown sugar rather than white, whole-wheat flour instead of refined, cocoa powder or cacao nibs instead of chocolate, and use a milk substitute like almond, coconut or rice milk in place of full cream milk. Making simple choices like this will gradually improve your health and your quality of life. Steaming food is likely the healthiest option, as it both cooks and seals in flavor, which Newly Discovered Nazca Lines have been Hiding in the Desert Thousands of Years Archaeologists in Peru have made a stunning discovery: over 50 previously unknown Nazca lines and some of them are centuries older than the most famous of these magnificent desert drawings. Most of these mysterious geoglyphs were created by the Nazca people, who lived in the area from 200 to 700 CE. But the researchers believe that some of the newfound ones were created even earlier - by the Paracas and Topará people, who lived there around 500 BCE to 200 CE. The lines have been a fascination and wonder for decades. Created by pushing aside the top layer of red desert pebbles to reveal the pale layer underneath, these geoglyphs span vast tracts of the Nazca Desert, between the towns of Nazca and Palpa. Some of them form geometric shapes or simple lines, and some are combined into elaborate depictions of animals and objects. The most wondrous thing about these ancient symbols is that you often can't see what they depict from ground level. You have to get up in the air to discern the patterns, which is why their full glory wasn't understood until after the invention of airplanes. The earlier Paracas glyphs, on the other hand, were often laid down on hillsides, which means that, from the right perspective, they can be seen by people on the ground. They also often depicted humans, in contrast to the more geometric Nazca shapes. Most of the newly discovered Paracas figures depict warriors, and they predate the Nazca lines by centuries. "This means that it is a tradition of over a thousand years that precedes the famous geoglyphs of the Nazca culture, which opens the door to new hypotheses about its function and meaning," archaeologist Johny Isla of the Peruvian Ministry of Culture, who is in charge of restoring and protecting the lines, told National Geographic. When a Greenpeace protest near the famous hummingbird glyph damaged the UNESCO-protected area, Isla and his team received a grant from the US government to aid in this important work. But because the maps are so patchy, this work can be difficult, so Isla teamed up with Luis Jaime Castillo Butters, a professor of archaeology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, to fill out these maps. By Michelle Starr They worked with National Geographic Explorer and archaeologist Sarah Parcak, who founded the GlobalXplorer initiative. Like Zooniverse, this "crowdsources" science, recruiting citizen scientists to look through satellite imagery to find locations of potential interest - in the case of Peru, potential archaeological sites, or instances of looting. After the initial survey, Castillo physically visited the sites, finding little of interest. Then, the team imaged the sites with drones, using both photography and 3D scanning - and revealed dozens of geoglyphs nobody had noticed before. Degradation and erosion over time had hidden these lines from view - but with drones, which are more lightweight, affordable and accessible than planes, they were discovered anew. Although the new glyphs fall within the UNESCO-protected site between Nazca and Palpa, they have yet to be registered with the Peruvian Government. But they're not under immediate threat - and the GlobalXplorer citizen scientists are continuing to find sites of interest, which, if they turn out to be significant, may expedite registration. Meanwhile, satellite data can help protect the glyphs from unplanned human encroachment, which is one of the biggest threats they face - truck drivers notwithstanding. <strong>Smoky</strong> <strong>Mountains</strong> <strong>Around</strong> <strong>Town</strong> is Worldwide on the Internet • www.smokymountainsaroundtown.com
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