Wendy’s 1, McDonald’s… 0!
About a month or so back, I reported on my experience with a McDonald’s grilled chicken salad. It was truly the most pathetic salad I have ever encountered and still remains so. I was most disappointed at the effort Mickey-Dees was making in providing real alternatives to the usual high-calorie, high fat offerings. The salad was, plain and simple, a joke. At the time, I remembered Wendy’s competitive offerings in a much...
A Missed Opportunity
This story in the LA Times made me want to bang my head against the keyboard a few times. The irony is that the author makes two good points: random snacking can add up to surplus cals over the course of the day. if you don’t track what you’re eating, you can easily overeat without realizing it. Problem is, the experts consulted by the author never come to grips with the subject’s food CHOICES and eating...
Teriyaki Terror!
It doesn’t take much to turn a reasonably healthy meal into an unhealthy one, as we found out last night. John (the hubby) and I hit the gym kinda late (for us) last night – about 6:00 p.m. We both did a cardio workout, plus some ab work…but cut the latter short, as John was getting hungry. Since it was already late, and we knew we were out of stuff at home, we decided to grab some take out, vs. shopping and...
Dumb and Unnecessary
Sometimes even I get surprised at how sloppy some supp makers can be, when it comes to designing and marketing their products. A case in point arrived in my inbox this morning from a bud – pointing me to a product called “2 Methyl 13-C” from Iron Tek. It’s a pre-workout/NO-booster-type product containing creatine. It was the creatine component that caught my eye: Creatine Methyl Ester. Ok, it’s an...
More on Hydroxycut
Iovate just released a consumer Q & A on the Hydroxycut recall, which is posted on a special site: HydroxycutInformation.com. I instinctively rolled my eyes at this para: We conduct internal analyses of individual ingredients, and undertake extensive medical, scientific and toxicological literature reviews on the safety of the ingredients during the development stage of each product. Additionally, third-party experts from the...
Clown Car Supplements II – Hydroxycut Edition
The FDA warning and Hydroxycut recall are all over the news now, and the major retailers appear to have pulled the products from their inventories. While the reports of liver injury are limited (23 so far), they’re still not easy to dismiss. Nor is it a good idea to do so, especially since there are some “take home” lessons from the current situation. One of them is a point that Paul and I have stressed in earlier...
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