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[neadods]

Mini trampoline: Good low-impact workout, or disaster waiting to happen?

Also, I am in the market for a good, general cookbook (think "Joy of Cooking") for:
- Mediterranean Cooking (esp. Greece and Italy)
- Recipes for Lent
- Jewish cooking

Any recommendations?

I am trying to deal with the incredible paucity of fish and bean recipes in most "generican" cookbooks. Vegetarian cookbooks are slightly better. Slightly.

Comments

[benbenberi.livejournal.com]

If you mean one of those mini trampolines that are about 5 inches high and a yard across - I've never used one, but a friend of mine has done regularly for years & thinks it's been good for her. The kind with the grab bar in front look the safest to me, but that may be because I don't trust my balance on a bouncy thing.

For cookbooks, 3 that come to mind are Mark Bittman's How To Cook Everything Vegetarian, Barbara Kafka's Vegetable Love and Arthur Schwartz's Jewish Home Cooking.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

If you mean one of those mini trampolines that are about 5 inches high and a yard across

Yes - it looked like a good way to get in some of the harder impact running/twisting moves without knocking my bad knee out of commission.

I'll check out the cookbooks, thank you!