A while back I posted a survey. I want to do a post on all the interesting info it provided, but I want to give a quick preview of one tidbit.
First off, a survey like this is unscientific. It points to interesting insights that would require more rigorous investigation to come to any firm conclusions [...]
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The idea is simple: take your TV, your DVD player, your video iPod, your XBOX 360, your laptop, your PSP, and say goodbye to them all for seven days. Simple, but not at all easy. Like millions of others before you, you’ll be shocked at just how difficult - yet also how life-changing - a [...]
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I don’t like those sites that don’t have an email link for you to contact them. Instead, you fill in all this information about yourself (if required) and put your comments in a text box and hit “submit.” Where does this message go, and who, if anyone, reads it? Worse, you have no record of your [...]
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I had this thought yesterday as I was sitting in a department meeting watching the secretary chew her gum like a cow strung out on crystal meth.
We’ve been rolling this concept around in the blog that it isn’t just food that stimulates weight gain from the secretion of insulin as a result of sugar in the [...]
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Well, I said I was going to do it and I finally did it. I composed a letter and sent it to a couple key people at Wegmans, a large supermarket chain headquartered in New York State. Regardless of where you live, you’ve probably seen Wegmans’ name in print at some time in the past decade since they’ve [...]
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Last weekend I spent some time hanging round in a different part of town, so to speak. If you’ve spent any time reviewing the info on the web about low carb, you’ve probably come across groups other than Atkins folks who follow a substantially similar dietary lifestyle, but approach it from a different angle. A [...]
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I suppose I should be proud to say this amazingly simple product, TV Allowance, was developed at a university in my locality. Researchers came up with a large-calculator-sized device that lets families program “budgets” into their home televisions and computers, decreasing the available screen time from 10% to 50% over a period of several months. They then [...]
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Episode One: “I Want To Believe”
If you’ve ever watched the television series “The X Files,” there’s a good chance you noticed the poster that hung in FBI agent Fox Mulder’s office. It was sort of the motto of the show, or at least Mulder’s motto. Mulder experienced extraordinary events he couldn’t explain, couldn’t prove. Others tried to [...]
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I don’t know what to make of this article from Great Britain titled ‘Obesity Needs to be Tackled in the Same Way as Climate Change’. It bothers me on so many levels. First, there is a statement, presumably from the fellow connecting obesity and climate change, that scares the living hell out of [...]
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Here’s a little conspiracy theory for you. I don’t believe in conspiracy theories (most times), and I don’t believe this one (at least not yet), but they’re fun.
I came across an article that essentially says that smokers and the obese are cheaper to care for - the study shows that fat folks and smokers do [...]
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