The Hungry Gene: The Science of Fat and the Future of Thin is another good history of eating, or rather obsessing about weight. It’s not as detailed as Good Calories, Bad Calories but she made some good points. Here are the two messages I took away. (I’m sure there were more in the book.) Our […]
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I had the opportunity to try the New Orleans hiccup trick again last night (bitters and sugar on a lemon slice) and I just want to say that it worked instantly. Perfectly. How come I didn’t know about this before?
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According to this study eating lots, eating varied foods and eating breakfast during pregnancy makes women more likely to have boys. No wonder I had a boy.
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We’ve been eating "low carb" since Thanksgiving. The first month or so I lost 10 pounds and then nothing happened even though I continued to be good. Whenever anybody asked me how it was going, I’d say we’re being good and it’s working really well for Frank (my boyfriend.) And I’d go on to explain
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We’ve been trying to eat low carb and while that means lots of veggies, it means not much fruit. So it’s been strange to see all the pictures of Steve Pavlina’s raw food diet. He’s trying to eat healthy and eating only fruits and vegetables (that look yummy but very unsatisfying) and we are trying
Cornell University Researchers aim to harness sperm power for nano-robots.
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If you didn’t read Good Calories, Bad Calories because you are not into reading nonfiction books or you didn’t want to buy it, then I recommend you watch Gary Taubes talk The Quality of Calories: What Makes Us Fat and Why Nobody Seems to Care at University of California Berkeley. It’s a free webcast and
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As I said in my last post about choosing a new doctor, we’ve seen a lot – like really a lot – of medical people this year. I’ve really come to appreciate medical people that take my concerns seriously (all of those visits but one were very necessary) and I’ve become really annoyed at people
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When do you decide you need a new doctor? In the past year we’ve been to the hospital once, the ER three times, urgent care twice and the doctor’s office countless times! That’s a lot of medical care – and all of the visits except one justified some type of medical treatment. So today when
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A couple of blogs I read pointed me to this article. They focused on the fact that by 2015, 75% of Americans will be obese or overweight. What I noticed is that two thirds of us already are! 66% of Americans are overweight or obese. It’s already normal to be overweight. And since a recent
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