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  • 3 easy ways to lighten the candy load

    3 easy ways to lighten the candy load

    October 22, 2010 / Health, Tips

    It’s about a week until Halloween, and kids around the country are rejoicing. Parents, on the other hand, are dreading the next week. Between school parties, friends’ parties, and trick-or-treating, most kids will probably eat their weight in sugary, unhealthy candy and snacks. But short of locking your kids in their rooms until November 1st, how do you keep them from becoming sugar zombies? After all, a few treats now and then are fine, but massive amounts of sugar will [...]

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  • Food allergy labels: Do they matter?

    Food allergy labels: Do they matter?

    August 13, 2010 / Food, Health, Nutrition

    The last time you bought prepackaged food, did you notice the little blurb at the bottom that said, “Made in a facility that processes (fill in a potential allergen here)”? If you have any food allergies, you probably did. Or…maybe not. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that 2 percent of adults and 4 to 8 percent of kids in the U.S. have food allergies. These allergies cause around 150 deaths each year. Reactions in those with [...]

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  • Day 59 – When Starving Can Be A Good Thing

    Day 59 – When Starving Can Be A Good Thing

    June 2, 2010 / 100 Days of Starvation, Feed Your Head, Health, Tips

    “One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps.“ ~ Georg Groddeck 195.6 lbs Starving your body is bad. Trust me on this one. I get dizzy spells, twinges in the muscles of my abs, sleepless nights, and declining social popularity since I can’t go out [...]

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  • Day 51 – Is The Fountain Of Youth In The Ocean?

    Day 51 – Is The Fountain Of Youth In The Ocean?

    May 25, 2010 / 100 Days of Starvation, Feed Your Head, Health, Tips

    “A lot of folks say they like what I did but they don’t like the way I did it.” ~ Boss Finley 198.0 lbs. What a weird place to be. For the first time since I was a kid I’m under 200 lbs., which makes me feel a sense of accomplishment and at the same time I worry about the muscle loss and other health effects. I’m now officially past the halfway milestone and thinking it may be all downhill [...]

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  • Day 46 – The Boy Who Cried Peanut

    Day 46 – The Boy Who Cried Peanut

    May 20, 2010 / 100 Days of Starvation, Health, The Status Quo, Tips

    206 lbs. A slight uptick in my weight again, but I can feel in my gut that it’s “Beethoven syndrome”. I haven’t had a movement in a while. Due to a funding crunch my diet has been nothing but tuna for the past couple of days, which tends to gum things up. Ah, the life of a low budget film maker… so glamorous! The irony here would be if I were allergic to tuna. Or at least sensitive to it. [...]

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