Baloney Detection Kit
Paul sent me a link to this YouTube vid from skeptic, author and professor Michael Shermer. No, it has nothing to do with supps, diet, exercise or health per se… but it IS relevant to those subjects. Basically, the vid is about the kinds of questions people need to ask themselves when confronted by claims… so the mental steps Dr. Shermer discusses are quite applicable to the claims made in supp ads and other...
Probiotic Pizza?
There are times I’m alternately fascinated and repelled by the stuff the food industry comes up with. On the one hand, I can’t really object to entrepreneurs pushing healthier versions of not-so-healthy-but-extremely-popular food products… but on the other hand, it seems somewhat exploitative too. Marketing better quality junk/snack/convenience foods as “healthy” implies that consumers don’t...
Nutrition Bars Not So Healthy For Teeth
In my local supermarkets, nutrition/energy bars are big business… Fred Meyer, Safeway and Albertson’s all devote a decent amount of shelf space to them. At Freddy’s – where I shop most often – they’re in the “Health Food” section… after all, they’re so healthy! Right? Kinda sorta. Sure, there are all manner of bars with good-for-you ingredients like nuts, seeds, peanut...
I Climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro!
Ok, not the REAL Mt. Kilimanjaro… the “Level A Kilimanjaro Walking Climb” from the “Alpha Male Challenge.” John and I are officially starting the program tomorrow, although we tried this cardio workout yesterday, just for the hell of it. We were curious to get a taste of what we were in for. I made it all the way… John did too, although he had to hang on to the treadmill to get through the highest...
“if you need a study to tell you sugar water is bad for you than you are probably dumb.”
LOL – I didn’t write that, just so you know. It’s one of the comments posted in response to this article in the Sacramento Bee. A sweeping statewide study released today points to soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages as one of the main reasons why we are fat. “For the first time, we have strong scientific evidence that soda is one of the – if not the largest – contributors to the obesity epidemic,”...
Can Exercise Make You Smarter?
According to this NYT discussion of current research, the answer may be yes… For some time, researchers have known that exercise changes the structure of the brain and affects thinking. Ten years ago scientists at the Salk Institute in California published the groundbreaking finding that exercise stimulates the creation of new brain cells. But fundamental questions remain, like whether exercise must be strenuous to be...
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