(This one, from March 2008, is worth a read if you haven’t read it yet. – LCC) I got this question from a reader and thought it so important that I’m posting the response here rather than bury it in an old post. Your question: what concerns me is so many people write in saying [...]
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(From what I heard, this book will soon be released in paperback. At it’s core, is a sensible low carb diet, cleverly integrated with weight training. My thinking on the book has evolved since my first read in Jan of 2008, but here’s my review from then. -LCC) Men’s Health TNT Diet: The Explosive New [...]
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(As I’m taking a break, I thought that I might rerun some of the old stuff that gets buried as a blog gets old in the tooth. Here’s one from last January. Sorry if anyone finds this offensive – LCC) Mind being creeped out a bit? God knows I can’t fathom why people would want [...]
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The following is an email from David Benic of Dr Vitamin Solutions, an online seller of LEF products. He wrote me a while back that he was taking the product himself, and I checked in with him the other day as to how it was going. Here’s his response, as well as an email response [...]
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Exercise Got up at 5am and dragged myself to the gym. My mind bitched and moaned the entire way there, but as I said, I’m absolutely sick of the crap attitude that some part of my mind always has – and I ignored it. Got to the gym and decided it was time to kick [...]
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Here’s an article I came across where the FDA is warning consumers to steer clear of a slew of weight loss potions because they are essentially junk, with unlisted ingredients, and compounds that could cause heart attack, stroke, and maybe even cancer. Here’s a link to the article. Here’s a link to the FDA press [...]
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Absolutely fed up with myself – as one commenter on this site reminds me, this is the worst possible time of the year to go on a diet. Sure shows in my performance, doesn’t it? Did not exercise today, which also pissed me off – I’m barely on speaking terms with myself, I’m so mad. [...]
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Eats Got up at about 6 and wanted to go do my 20-minute mile on the treadmill, but the weather was so bad – freezing rain coming down on top of a sheet of ice, that it was challenging for me just to get to the damn car. In my mind, the excuse machine was [...]
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Alpha Lipoic Acid & Acetyl L-Carnitine I was going through my supplements to check what I needed to reorder, and suddenly realized I had run out of the ALA/ALC. Damn! That explains the tiredness! I just discussed this stuff the other day, and was crowing about how it allows me to live on less sleep. [...]
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Is Your Extra-Virgin Olive Oil Really a Virgin? From the Oh great – here’s another thing to worry about department: Connecticut just passed a law to ensure the purity of olive oil after finding other oils, including soybean and peanut oil, posing as extra virgin olive oil. Here’s an excerpt: In April 2007, FDA investigators [...]
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