To get to the answer to the question straight away: it might. This was brought up in a study reported on Msnbc.com, part of which states: …new research has determined that a judgmental attitude may just go hand in hand with exposure to organic foods. In fact, a new study published this week in the [...]
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I’m going to start this post discussing Sigmund Freud – but it’s not what you think – really. This post is not about psychology. Sigmund Freud was a cokehead in a time when it wasn’t a big deal. The notion of doing drugs at the time was not a counterculture phenomenon – it was something [...]
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Note: This is week 11 of what was supposed to be a 12-week experiment in low carb dieting. I have kept true to my title for these posts. The past chronicles are here, if this sort of stuff holds any interest for you. The above chart is pretty much the entire month of April as per [...]
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Note: This is week 10 of what was supposed to be a 12-week experiment in low carb dieting. I have kept true to my title for these posts. The past chronicles are here, if this sort of stuff holds any interest for you. I started this week pretty much where I started every week doing this [...]
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Note: This is week 9 of what was supposed to be a 12-week experiment in low carb dieting. It seems to be about everything but. The past chronicles are here, if this sort of stuff holds any interest for you. I’m starting my week where at a weight close to what I gravitate around: 206. I’d [...]
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From the Palm Beach Daily News: Johns Hopkins researchers have made the proponents of the always controversial Atkins diet very happy. A recent study presented at the American Heart Association’s March meeting lauded low-carb diets such as Atkins for producing weight loss and belly fat loss — linked to heart disease — more efficiently than [...]
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Note: This is week 8 of what was supposed to be a 12-week experiment in low carb dieting. The title was meant to be ironic, but it seems less so at the moment. If you are interested in the previous weeks’ mistakes and mishaps, they’re all here. I’m at a bit of an impasse at this point, [...]
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I have lifted this verbatum from Businessinsider.com: Overweight women make $13,847 less than average, while underweight women make $15,572 more. That means that a fat woman makes $29,419 less per year than a skinny one. A study led by Timothy Judge at the University of Florida and published by the American Psychological Association studied the salaries [...]
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I have been having a bit of a problem with, ahem, compliance – the ongoing process of actually keeping the promises I’ve made myself as to this 12-week experiment in full-bore low carb, ketogenics, exercise, and calorie-monitoring. I can’t test a set of variables if I don’t stick to them, so at the start of [...]
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Now here’s some researchers an exercise-averse person like me has gotta love. “Millions of Americans don’t engage in much exercise, if they complete any at all and asked why, a majority of respondents, in survey after survey, say, ‘I don’t have time.’ Now Gretchen Reynolds reports that instead of wondering justhow much exercise people really [...]
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