“English: A language that lurks in dark alleys, beats up other languages, and rifles through their pockets for spare vocabulary” Our language is a bastard. In fact, of 80,000 English words, roughly 28% originate from Latin, 28% from French, and 25% from Germanic languages, so more than 3/4ths of English kinda… isn’t. What’s worse is we use this language to tell each other things that aren’t so. Oh, I don’t mean lying, though that’s certainly a bad thing. I mean [...]
It goes without saying that we should all be drinking water whenever we can, but the reality is that we’re going to be drinking lots of other things besides. So when you’re choosing that beverage, do you know how healthy (or unhealthy) that drink is? Recently, Lifehacker featured an article from Men’s Health called “The 20 Worst Drinks in America”. It ranks drinks based on sugar content, and features everything from flavored water, to energy drinks, to milkshakes. It’s probably [...]
The grilled chicken club is part of lean Cuisine’s “panini” line, a collection of toasted sandwiches with meat and cheese in them. Stouffer’s Lean Cuisine also offers the Spa menu (“almost all the meals are preservative free”, according to LeanCuisine.ca) and Sélections, touted as “low fat” . Lean Cuisine meals work to control your weight by being a means of portion control. By having one of these pre-packaged meals you know how many calories you’re eating. At 340 Calories the [...]
“Way too much coffee. But if it weren’t for the coffee, I’d have no identifiable personality whatsoever.” ~David Letterman 208.9 lbs. Let’s look at the figures we have so far: 1 or 2 of every North American teen girl is anorexic, according to recent studies. More than 1 in 2 North Americans are overweight According to the CDC, about 34% of adults are obese. Here’s one that really frosts my mini wheats: Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics [...]
“One pill makes you larger And one pill makes you small And the ones that mother gives you Don’t do anything at all” ~ Jefferson Airplane 210.9 lbs. Overweight? Obese? it can’t possibly be because you eat too much. But don’t worry, buy this pill and you’ll be slim and trim in no time! otherwise no one will love you and you’ll go through life the subject of ridicule and scorn until you die bloated and alone. …or so the [...]
“Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, ’till you know there is no hook beneath it” ~ Thomas Jefferson 217 lbs. Another important milestone, at least for me. Today I’m 1/5th through the 100 days! WoOt! In the first few days I had trouble getting into this diet. Not from lack of willpower, but because of food labels. I stupidly thought those little packs of instant noodles were low calorie, and indeed the labels said something like 140 calories [...]
222.6 lbs Today was filled with photo shoots, going to the gym, and visiting friends. I got in at 4:30 and realized I still hadn’t eaten today. As someone normally north of 200 lbs as it is, I would have usually eaten 2,000 calories or so by now. The weird thing was I didn’t feel hungry – just kind of weak. Is my body adapting? Or am I just forgetting the taste of bread? I scarfed down another of those [...]
“Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt.” ~ Scott Adams 239 lbs If you’ve read the “Why??” page you know what’s up. Briefly I’ve decided to put myself on a 100 day starvation diet to show the hazards of poor nutrition on the body, and hopefully dissuade any would-be crash dieters out there. Not that overweight people get off the hook either. I’ll be writing about what obesity [...]
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