Must be the world has a vendetta against me, because two advice columns I read today had people writing in about how to help fat kids. Here’s my advice – butt out. These people worry because someone is fat and they watch them over-eat, but they don’t bother to think maybe something is wrong emotionally. [...]
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
So, a study released some results the other day saying the average American walks 5,117 steps a day. That’s less than people walk in Japan, Switzerland and Australia. Not that I look to most of those countries, the possible exception being Japan, for health advice. Hell, Mr. North Korea himself has said that citizens should [...]
Michael and I have been terribly ill the past few weeks. It’s been a load of crap. It started with what seemed like a harmless head cold, just some congestion which we tried to knock out with Sudafed. Not that crap without the ephedrine in it, it doesn’t work. The good stuff, that the US [...]
I’ve written at length about sex education and contraception on this blog, mostly because it’s a subject I’ve done extensive research on. Which is why I get extraordinarily annoyed with the public discussion which events like the Pope’s recent comments bring about. The latest assertions that make me angry: 1. Condoms don’t prevent all STDs. [...]
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
PETA really loves vegetables. If that’s how PETA feels about vegetables and they love animals too, I’m waiting for the bestiality ad. Is this ad aimed at men or women? Women are a lot more likely to become vegetarian, but men are a lot more likely to find the transference of a woman licking asparagus [...]
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
There’s a $60-per-month diet pill being advertised online, the ingredient label for which reads: Active ingredient: 1,3,7-trimethylxanthine 100mg (pharmaceutical grade) Those who aren’t organic chemistry hobbyists, please follow the link above for an explanation. The best part is the one review website I found that’s full of statements from satisfied customers like “special weight loss [...]
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
There’s been this big hullabaloo about the corn refiners association commercials talking about how high fructose corn syrup has been demonized in the media. I take their side. I think there are very little ingredients that are harmful to any healthy person in small dosages. Also, those HFCS maniacs are freaking crazy. Have you ever [...]
Michael has decided he wants to go vegan again. He’s working mostly off of a food pyramid from wikipedia. We realized, upon studying the pyramid, that we went about veganism all wrong previously. All carbs and veggies, hardly any protein. Even still, I frequently cook meals that contain almost no protein whatsoever. I hate to [...]
I complained to Michael a lot about how I don’t have time to do anything. Work-out, cook, do laundry, clean the kitchen. Whinewhinewhinewhine. So I decided I would shut-off the tv for the majority of the week, vowing that I would spend only a half hour in front of it after work, and see what [...]
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
I was reading an online chat yesterday, and someone said they wanted to lose a not-insignificant amount of weight and that they worked out half an hour for three days every week. Well, plenty of people told him/her they needed to up the time and frequency of work-outs but no one told him/her how to [...]