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...
read moreThe 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...
read moreCHMP 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...
read moreR.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...
read moreSitting 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...
read moreUltimateFatBurner.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...
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