I have been sorting the garden and all was going well until I did some weeding, mainly squatting and crouching under bushes.

The first day I got away with it but the second day was fierce, I could only manage half what I expected before I was bent into a permanent C shape. The legs were OK but obviously I have missed some lower back muscles. This would have seriously limited my sandbag production. When the ache has worn off (probably tomorrow) I have these compost piles to turn over, that should train the muscle groups I appear to have let go over the winter. Too easy to get complacent when the bits you normally use seem to be working OK.

And the irony is staggering.

One last note: after Sept. 11th, I read an article about a woman who had just lost 86 lbs w. Weight Watchers… she said she never would been able to walk down 86 flights of stairs…AND LIVE… had she not lost that weight.

In economics it is well known that human capital is a huge factor in how prosperous a society is. The kind of improvements seen by primal adherents suggests that human capital can be raised to a certain extent just by changing lifestyle in fairly simple ways. Imagine if even 20% of the population were primal. I really wonder what effect that would have on society at large?