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| Beach-side Masajistas |
For 200 pesos you can get a one hour massage in a beach-side tent. That's about $14. We have had a number of massages here, but Karen has found a gal, Lilliana, a local Mexican who is a California certified massuse. She is excellente! Of course they all say that they are professional and certified.
I've never had a massage! Can you believe that! It's true. I have my own reasons, which I won't go into on your blog. I'm still thinking about yesterday's post, so I searched through my notes on a class I just finished with the University of California (San Francisco) called Mind-Body Medicine. Listen to this: "In the last century our life expectancy (USA) has increased by 30 years, and infant mortality has decreased by 95%. The impressive gains we've made with typhoid, tuberculosis, measles, polio, small pox, whooping cough, are not due to antibiotics or high tech medicine. Most of these gains are due to clean water, better hygiene, hand-washing and enclosed sewers." (University of Cal, SF, Mind-Body Medicine, Satterfield). I love the simplicity of this, Occam's Razor at its best. Another aspect to this line of reasoning is that the best thing we can do for our own health is to improve the health of society. Here's a statement from C. Everett Koop supporting the concept of public health: "Health care is vital to all of us some of the time. Public health is vital to all of us all of the time." If these statements are true, then they tell us what needs to happen in poor neighborhoods, especially areas like the city dump.
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