Sunday, September 23, 2007

RICE


The doctor told me that rice is meant to be good for mild ruptures to the anterior talo-fibular ligaments, so when I got home today I had a traditional bengali lunch then put my feet up to wait for the basmati to take effect.


The human body is not well designed for running with rapid changes of direction on uneven ground. It's almost as if the supporting structures of the knee and ankle joints were fairly incidental adaptations associated with a more fundamental driver, for example if the benefits from freeing forelimbs from the requirement to transport the body were associated with corresponding costs in other areas. Because evolution cannot plan ahead, it sometimes appears to make some fairly dumb decisions.

Alternatively, it could be God telling us that He did not want us to play football.

2 comments:

Ann Cardus said...

Most women who've gone through labour will have a few things to say about evolution, costs and benefits.

Anonymous said...

From Rice University:

http://www.rice.edu/~jenky/sports/ankle.sprain.html