The Big Lie Fat People Tell Ourselves
Losing weight isn’t like quitting smoking or drinking or heroin or anything else, we say. People can quit smoking cold turkey. You can stop drinking and never have to touch another glass of alcohol. Once you’re off the needle, you’re off the needle. You don’t have to smoke, drink or sniff glue, but I’m addicted […]
5 Medical Miracles The Health Care Industry Doesn’t Want You To Know About
America is the most medicated civilization in the history of, well, civilization. Nearly 70% of Americans take at least one prescription drug regularly. 50% take two. A mind blowing 1 out of every 5 Americans is on 5 or more prescriptions. We take them for wide variety of reasons: High blood pressure (22%), High Cholesterol […]
How To Save Money, Save Time, Save The Planet, Eat Healthier and Lose Weight . . . . . In 3 Words or Less
I was driving home the other night from an after work function, around 8 o’clock or so and I was starving. Not starving in the third world country sense of the word, but starving in a middle aged, chubby suburban kind of way. I hadn’t eaten since lunchtime and I was seriously ready for a […]
Your Brain Is a Zombie for Sugar
Americans love sugar more than a fat kid loves cake.. actually pretty much exactly the same as a fat kid loves cake. Which is to say… a whole, whole lot. We eat about 100 pounds of sugar each every year. When Hostess filed for bankruptcy last year, we went into a national state of crisis […]
3 Reasons You Didn’t Keep Last Year’s Resolutions and This Year’s Are Looking Iffy
You had the best of intentions, didn’t you? You were going to lose weight. You were going make more money. You were going to be nicer to animals and small children. In 2012 you were, finally, at long last, going to get back in shape, turn your life around and be a plain, all around […]