What Are We Eating?
Via The Atlantic, here’s a cool graphic from dailyinfographic.com, on “what the average American consumes in a year.” Click on the pic to embiggen. The average American downs nearly 142 pounds of added (caloric) sweeteners/year!...
read moreEvery Little Bit Helps
… even when it comes to exercise – if the results of this recent study are to be believed. According to Maev Kennedy of The Guardian… A cheering piece of research suggests that just 15 minutes of exercise a day – half the recommended amount in the UK – can...
read moreTomatoland
Supermarket tomatoes suck. Barry Estabrook explains why, in his new book, “Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit.” Just added it to my Amazon...
read moreFTC Goes After Acne App Marketers
LOL – this was a new one on me: using phone apps to commit health fraud. The cases involving mobile apps “AcneApp” and “Acne Pwner” are the first the FTC has brought targeting health claims in the mobile application marketplace. The FTC alleged that the mobile apps were...
read moreStudy: Regular Aerobic Exercise Best for Reducing Visceral Fat
Hot off the presses… The Duke study showed aerobic training significantly reduced visceral fat and liver fat, the culprit in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Aerobic exercise also did a better job than resistance training at improving fasting insulin resistance, and...
read moreWorld’s Heaviest Mom Going on a Diet
Back in 2010, Donna Simpson – the World’s Heaviest Mom (according to the Guinness Book of World Records) – was attempting to fulfill her fantasy… hitting 1,000 pounds. I guess reality proved to be more compelling than fantasy, since Simpson intends to...
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