Tag Archives: diet

How America Got So Fat (And So Sick)

This is via MSN Health: How America Got So Fat (And So Sick) America is fatter and sicker than ever. We compensate by taking pills and going on fad diets. But the fact is that our fast-food, sedentary lifestyle is trumping the advances in medical science that have been responsible for at least four decades [...]

Ohmigod! I’m Becoming a Health Nazi!

I’ve been eating and living in a much healthier fashion as of late. I’ve lost 72 lbs in the past 4 months or so. I’ve also severely limited my sodium intake. Unfortunately, for those around me, I catch myself jumping up on the soap box to lecture one and all regarding mending their evil and [...]

The Good, The Bad, The Salty

Yeah… it’s one of those damned eat-healthy articles. Have you ever wondered how much sodium you consume in a day? I doubt you really care. Well, whether you should care or not isn’t my purpose here today. My purpose is just to educate. The recommended daily allowance (RDA) of sodium for an adult human being [...]

Don’t Try This At Home, Folks!

On the heels of my article of yesterday regarding diabetes and diet management, I run across this… From CNN Health: Twinkie diet helps nutrition professor lose 27 pounds by Madison Park For 10 weeks, Mark Haub, a professor of human nutrition at Kansas State University, ate one of these sugary cakelets every three hours, instead [...]

What You Don’t Know Could Hurt You… Diabetes Lurks

How’ve you been feeling lately? A bit slower than normal? Thirsty? Heartburn often? These are just a couple symptoms of a silent killer that has quietly become a near epidemic in the United States and other “American-ized” countries, where diet and physical activity levels have changed over the past half century or so. Let’s just [...]

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