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Why consuming doesn´t make you happy? As I´ve been living economically "poorer" life for a while, I came to some enlightenments of money and buying. In the first place I was complaining why can´t I afford to do that or buy that, but at one point (and with the useful observations and "shaking of shoulders" from my dear husband) I realised that while I actually haven´t got that much money to spend, I have lived a more fulfilling life. Why is that? There is an old Brasilian story which resumes the point quite clearly. Take a look: "Because we´re not happy even with the current, historically high living standards, how come would we think that getting more of it would make it any better". (Havia et. al) You probably have read about the "big bad" consumerism, a nowaday´s phenomenom which is said to bother the rich nations. And for reason the te rm has gained its bad reputation. Not only is overconsuming exhausting our planet, nor it has ma...

Good food for good life In 1930 a North American dentist wanted to investigate where does caries come from. He abandoned his laboratory and microscopes and went out to the wild to meet different ethnic groups. And he discovered that the healthiest people where to be found - guess where: In the nature! So the dentist found out that the indigenous people living far away from "civilization" had not only the healthiest teeth but were also strong from their physics. And what comes to the teeth, I guess these people definitely not used toothbrushes nor Colgate toothpaste. Indigenous tribes that the dentist was researching were Indians from the Peruvian Amazon and coast, aboriginals from Australia, Maori people from New Zealand, Eskimos etc. The combining fact was that all these communities followed their traditional diet. On the contrary the members of the community who had abandoned the traditional way of life had the same kind of western health problems that all the others, l...