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Cate Blanchett Nude – Well, Unphotoshopped…

March 22, 2012 / Celebrities, News

Just yesterday I published a story about how Israel was so concerned that the trend of overly-photoshopped models (and the actual, dangerously thin frames on them) is effecting young women aspiring to be actors or models… and even more who just want to be close to as pretty as their idols. Around the same time I was hitting the big, candylike ‘publish’ button on that article, this story about Cate Blanchett broke. Cate is especially interesting to me. She’s an [...]

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The Modelling Mold 2.0

March 21, 2012 / Culture, News

“You can never be too rich or too thin”* ~Wallace Simpson *Does not apply to certain rich, like the bourgeois being executed during the French Revolution, or to certain thin, like the girls dying of undernourishment trying to please their modelling coaches Shouldn’t that quote carry such a footnote? I often hear models referred to as anorexic, and there is a little justification for the stereotype. In 2007, after an undernourished 21 year old model died, photographer Oliviero Toscani produced an [...]

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You see, the problem is….

January 6, 2011 / Building Back Up, Nutrition & Fitness

Some of us like to laugh at websites like thisiswhyyourefat.com, or watch programmes like Britain’s Fattest Man (yes, that’s a show. Look for an American knock off coming soon, I’d wager) but this is also the time of year many people make resolutions to “lose weight”. Cheap 1980′s style infomercials or glitzy advertisements featuring B list yo-yo dieting celebs stalk the land like two giant stalking things. The thing is, getting healthier shouldn’t be about changing the number on your [...]

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Isabelle Caro dead at 28

November 17, 2010 / Celebrities, News

Isabelle Caro, a Marseilles born actress and model who became an international symbol for her struggle with anorexia, has died after spending about two weeks in hospital with acute respiratory disease. She had recently returned to France from working in Tokyo. Anorexic since 13, in 2006 Isabelle fell into a coma when her weight dropped to 25kg. She fought the eating disorder and announced early 2010 that her weight had risen to 42kg. In 2007, after a 21-year-old Brazilian model [...]

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Putting A Chill On Fitness

November 2, 2010 / Building Back Up, Nutrition & Fitness

It;s now a little more than 3 months since I halted my starvation project. I’ve regained 30 lbs, some from bulging thigh muscles from all the cycling I’m doing and some from other not-so-firm bulges, the result of my body panicking and storing fat in case I decide to be an idiot and starve myself again. A bike store near me called Bike Doctor equipped me to speed my recovery and help me rebuild muscle and cardio capacity through low-impact [...]

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Carpe Diem Is More Than A Saying

October 27, 2010 / Building Back Up, More Rants

You know, the sand is running out of the hourglass, so I want to look back and say “See, I did that. That was me. I was reckless and I was wild, and I fucking did it.” ~ Jamie Lee Curtis as Helen Tasker in True Lies I recall reading a blog post, years ago, by a young man who was so excited to see the new Star Wars: Episode I movie when it was about to be released. He [...]

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What The Chiléan Miners Ate

October 13, 2010 / Personal Stories, Tales of Survival

Recently a good portion of the world’s television viewing audience was glued to their sets watching 33 Chiléan miners being rescued from the collapsed mine they’d been trapped in for 69 days. When they finally emerged, they looked pretty healthy – mainly because the rescuers above had tailored a specific diet for them (as well as an exercise regime of about an hour a day). Well, not at first. Initially, when 700,000 tonnes of rock collapsed in a mine shaft mine [...]

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Health Doesn’t Accept Excuses

October 6, 2010 / Building Back Up, More Rants

You don’t have to look very far to see someone who will say anything to avoid being responsible for their own actions. In some cases it’s that person ordering a supersized meal at a fast food restaurant as part of their dialy routine, who claims “genetics” are responsible for their weight problem. In some cases it’s a friend or loved one who announces diets or New Year’s weight loss resolutions, but drops these good intentions like bad habits after a [...]

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Svelt Svetlana – A Determined Woman’s Weight Loss

September 21, 2010 / Personal Stories, Tales of Survival

I get a lot of people emailing me asking for quick tricks for dieting. On the plus side they seem to understand that the 100 days of starvation I performed wasn’t healthy, but they still want fast weight loss. The rapidity of my weight loss was part of the problem. It makes the body panic and want to store fat, which is one reason why I’d regained 20 lbs in just a few weeks during recovery. If I had to [...]

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Is the Lemonade Diet A Lemon?

September 19, 2010 / Dieting, Food Science, News, Tips

The other day on Twitter people were talking about the so-called Lemonade Diet. Originally made popular in 1976 by Stanley Burroughs, this out-dated diet was re-released and re-popularized in 2005 with a new, more modern look in the form of Peter Glickman’s book Lose Weight, Have More Energy, and Be Happier in 10 Days. The book includes information on the obesity epidemic, toxins in foods, and the ”detoxification process”. The Lemonade Diet isn’t much different from most “cleanse” or “detox” diets. Basically, you [...]

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Take It With A Grain Of Salt

September 14, 2010 / Food Science, News

Until relatively recently in human history, salt was a precious commodity. Urban legend has it that Roman soldiers were given money specifically to buy salt or were paid with salt, thus the word ‘salary,’ from the Latin salarium, and it’s why we say someone not good at their job isn’t worth their salt. Obviously if you had to fight barbarian hordes to buy substantial quantities of the stuff, or have your wife defy God and turn back to watch the [...]

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Liar, Liar, Pants… Are Liars…

September 12, 2010 / Culture, News

Wait, what? Oh, right. Your pants lie to you. For years we males have been baffled by women’s sizing systems. I mean, how someone can be a size negative one and still occupy three dimensional space makes as much sense as a left handed hammer. “Not us” we told ourselves. “Our pant sizes are just waist circumference in inches, by inseam in inches.” As it turns out, that’s crap. Men’s apparel manufacturers have started slipping us the same drug they’ve [...]

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