Fast Food
Ok, this is frivolous, but I couldn’t resist. From Popular Science: Why would a man construct a dining-room table that can cruise down a racetrack at 130 miles an hour and shoot flames into the air? Sheer competitiveness. A record for the world’s fastest furniture existed—92 mph on a sofa—and Perry Watkins wanted to beat it. …The resulting vehicle, dubbed Fast Food, smoked the record, clocking an average speed of 113.8...
The Official Sci-ence “Red Flags of Quackery”
Via Respectful Insolence, the “Red Flags of Quackery” (click on the image to see the original). It’s funny, despite the fact that it’s all too...
CHMP on “The Biggest Loser”
I loved this 6-part series on “The Biggest Loser” by Tristin Aaron of the Center for Health Media and Policy Center at Hunter College. She gets right at what irritates me the most about this exploitative bit of “fitness porn.” Over the season, the show sometimes depicts the dieters sympathetically. They have to. It’s essential that viewers invest in the “characters” and the competition between them. But the...
R.I.P. Blair River
He was the spokesmodel for the “Heart Attack Grill,” in Chandler, AZ. Blair River was a big guy with a big heart. River, who stood 6-foot-8 and weighed about 575 pounds, gained a measure of fame in the past year as spokesman for the Heart Attack Grill, a west Chandler restaurant that specializes in thick hamburgers and fries. He died on Tuesday at the age of 29. The cause of death is currently unknown, but friends are...
Sitting as an Extreme Sport
Seriously: it’s called “Hockern.” According to Wired: Of all the things we take for granted — fresh air, hot pizza, Scarlett Johansson — sitting down surely ranks somewhere near the top. But no longer! A couple of enterprising young entrepreneurs in Germany want to make sure you never forget the thrill of setting your behind down after a long jaunt. As heads of the company Salzig Sporthocker, the Landschütz brothers...
UltimateFatBurner.com Welcomes Sumi Singh, Contributing Author!
Hey everyone! I just want to send out a quick note to both introduce and welcome our newest contributing author, Sumi Singh. Sumi is a personal trainer, a contributor to Will Brink’s BrinkZone, the webmistress of GoddessOfFitness.com, and now, a contributing author right here at UltimateFatBurner.com. Sumi will be writing articles, she’ll take over the position of “product tester”, and she will be in the...
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