Archive for May, 2007

Diabetes Drugs and Heart Attacks

Normally, I don’t post about supplements or drugs. However, an email just appeared in my in-box that made me think an exception may be in order.

According to an email from the American Diabetes Association;

The government’s preliminary evaluation Read More

More Trouble for Diet Pop and Sodium Benzoate

Looks like Benzene and Sodium Benzoate are back in the news again.

If you remember, I wrote about diet pops, sodium benzoate and health risks HERE.

According to a recent release on foodqualitynews.com, it appears that recent research has … Read More

The Difference Between a Diet Book and a Nutrition Book

In my quest to read as many diet and nutrition books as possible, I have stumbled across the difference between a “Diet Book” and a “Nutrition Book”.

A Nutrition Book is roughly 300 pages of information on food, food politics … Read More

Can Fish Oils Make You Thin?

If you’ve read the news in the last couple of days then you’ve probably read all the headlines about a new study that shows that the combination fish oils and exercise can help you lose fat.

To quickly summarize the … Read More

Nutritional Customs That Work

If you’ve had the chance to read the free report I wrote for grrlathlete.com titled “The Ten Day Diet Solution” then you know I am a fan of nutritional customs.

I think that setting rules that help us … Read More

Health Claims and Advertising

This morning I realized that yesterday’s blog may have been a little confusing, so I made a trip to the grocery store so I could find some examples.

Luckily, I found two really good ones.

Firstly, on the side of … Read More

Snake-Oil Traders

I Just finished reading an article in the Skeptical Inquirer by Edzard Ernst called “Snake-Oil Traders,” that describes the current practice and marketing of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the UK.

It was a well written article, with some very … Read More

I got my A$$ Kicked By a 260 Pound Monster!

It’s true!

It’s finally getting nice outside up in Canada, so I decided to move my workouts outdoors.

I absolutely love this time of year, because in my opinion, training outside is about a thousand times more fun that training … Read More

Nutrition from 1972

Just a quick post today to share an excerpt from a book I just read while waiting at my Doctor’s office. (He was running a little behind, so I started leafing through some of his older text books).

Here’s a … Read More

Why Starbucks is Like Godzilla

On Monday I had a chance to catch up with one of my good friends who has spent the last five years living in Japan. He was back in Canada for a wedding, and since I haven’t seen him in … Read More