What’s the Walk Score for your Neighborhood?
This is kind of cool. Walk Score was developed as an online tool for finding neighborhoods with services within walking distance. Seems like gas prices go up another ten cents per gallon, every time I fill up my car. In my neck of the woods, it’s closing in on $4.00/gallon. At the current rate, I figure we’ll be there in less than 2 weeks. I don’t expect it will stop there, either. There’s a silver lining...
Lemons Into Lemonaide: A Lesson In Critical Thinking!
Yesterday I received a particularly nasty e-mail from an extremely irate visitor. It wasn’t anything I haven’t seen a zillion times before — the e-mail contained accusations of misleading the general public; it called me a liar (several times), and it used “UltimateFatBurner.com” in conjunction with the word “bullsh*t” several times. Frankly, e-mails like this aren’t that uncommon....
Are The Restaurant Chains Really On YOUR Side?
Lately I’ve been reading Morgan Spurlock’s “Don’t Eat This Book; Fast Food And The SuperSizing Of America”. Morgan, if you remember, is the guy who did the “SuperSize Me” movie — which you absolutely must see, if you haven’t already (“SuperSize Me” is a documentary movie where Morgan consumes nothing but McDonalds “food” for thirty days straight, all the...
New Regulations for Weight Loss Supplement Claims?
A “citizens” petition has just been filed with the FDA to regulate weight loss claims made for dietary supplements as “disease claims.” If the petition is granted, manufacturers of weight loss supps would be required to pass FDA review prior to making claims about the efficacy of their products. The “citizens” filing the petition are the American Dietetic Association, The Obesity Society, Shaping...
Mangosteen, Noni, Xango, Goji, Zrii Juice… What’s Next?
Over the years, I’ve been approached a bazillion times about promoting the aforementioned products, and many others. It’s always some kind hearted marketer doing his or her best to ensure I’m “in on the ground floor” of this “opportunity” (and nothing, I’m sure, to do with having me under them in the “commission matrix”). Heaven forbid I miss out on the “wave” of...
The Six Most Terrifying Foods in the World
This was funny: http://www.cracked.com/article_14979_6-most-terrifying-foods-in-world.html (head’s up: the language is a little rough…). Despite the humor though, the descriptions are generally pretty accurate. I’ve read about Casu Marzu (a.k.a. Casu Frazigu), for example, in Dr. Massimo Francesco Marcone’s book, “In Bad Taste?” As he writes: “Torre unwrapped two separate containers,...
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