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 Originally made popular in 1976 by Stanley Burroughs, this out-dated diet was re-released and re-popularized in 2005 with a new, more modern look in the form of Peter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,...
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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,...
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Lately I've been spending far more time outdoors, enjoying the waning summer. The fresh air and exercise is helping me to get back into shape, and when you get back to the human scale of living - jogging through parks, riding along trails, etc. it reminds you that our presence on this planet is more than moving from box to box in slightly smaller four-wheeled boxes. There's a whole living...
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Your breakfast cereal might be deadly. Or it might just smell bad. But really, if you needed a reason to stop eating chocolate coated frosty bombs as a "breakfast cereal", incidents like this should help persuade you. Here's the skinny: Kellogg's recalled 28 million boxes of its cereals due to high levels of 2-methylnaphthalene contamination. People noticed the cereal smelled funny, and the...
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I've tried low carb; everything from South Beach to hard core Atkins. For me it worked out pretty well, but it wasn't a sustainable diet. I don't mean 'sustainable' in the tree-hugger sense, I mean it wasn't a diet I could sustain. No fruits or breads whatsoever? Yeah... I don't think so. Low carb diets rely on depriving your body of sugars - all sugars, and even the stuff your body turns into...
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During the starvation I wrote about the KFC Double Down - a reviled yet popular sandwich that uses fried chicken in place of bread. You read that right. Its 540 calories - more than 1/4 the recommended daily food intake for a woman, and almost 1/4 for a man - come locked and loaded with 5 milligrams of cholesterol. That's twice the cholesterol of a Big Mac, and 1/2 the recommended daily...
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