Posts Tagged as ‘nutrition’

May 5, 2008

To diet or not to diet

The debate rages on:
In one corner, we have the current champion: The Atkins/South Beach/Abs/Fat Smash/ You on a Diet KID.

In the other corner, we have the challenger: Healthy Lifestyle

And the winner is…..
With sales of $58 billion in 2007, the diet industry kicks butt. Healthy Lifestyle butt.
But maybe 2008 is a comeback year for Healthy Lifestyle.
Here [...]

May 5, 2008

Nutrition, Environment and Epigenetics

Take a look at the ‘About this blog‘ page: you will see that I close out my intro by saying that Genetics is Not Destiny.
I truly believe that. I have to believe that.
As a kid, I was always ‘husky’.
Through research, discipline and hard work, I was able to transform my body from fat to fit.
During [...]

April 28, 2008

Book Prize for the 100 Mile Diet

On April 21, I wrote a review of the 100 Mile Diet.
In today’s Vancouver Sun, Rebecca Wigod reports that The 100 Mile Diet has won a British Columbia book prize. The book won the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize and was also a finalist for the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize.
Congratulations to the authors, J.B. MacKinnon and [...]

April 22, 2008

Re-name the Bagel-ful

While I am sure that Kraft spent a bazillion dollars coming up with the perfect name for this engineered food-type product, I think I can do better.
How about you?
Here is what I came up with:
Bagel-ful-of-goo
Bagel-ful-of-artificial cheese product
Bagel-ful-of-chemicals & preservatives
Bagel-ful-of-impaired insulin sensitivity
Bagel-ful-of-why-is-my-butt-so-big
Bagel-ful-of-my-mom-is-to-lazy-to-even-make-a-real-sandwich
Bagel-ful-of-crap
(pardonnez moi mon francais)
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April 10, 2008

Apples lower Metabolic Syndrome risk

There is a new scientific paper being discussed today that claims that people who eat the equivalent of one large apple a day are at lower risk of metabolic syndrome.
The paper, presented at the Experimental Biology 2008 meeting was produced by Nutrition Impact, LLC , paid for by the American apple industry and heartily endorsed [...]