Archive for June, 2007

Weight Loss Supplement SPAM!

Alright, enough is enough!

While trying to answer the reader emails we get over at www.grrlAthlete.com, I realized my inbox was flooded with no less than 11 emails in the past two days for a certain weight loss supplement.… Read More

The Truth About Fruit Juice

These days it seems like hardly anyone drinks fruit juice anymore. Whenever I ask people why they don’t drink juice, I get answers like “Sugar from fruit makes you fat” or “It’s just too much sugar.”

Truthfully, one of these … Read More

Teaspoon of Sugar

As I had my usual cup of tea this morning, I found myself staring at my teaspoon of sugar.

It dawned on me that this little spoon held almost the exact same amount of sugar that was floating around in … Read More

The Most Irresponsible Headline Ever!

This Headline just appeared in my in-box

“Regularly drinking antioxidant-rich green tea may halve the risk of colon and rectal cancer, suggests a new study based in China.”

I read it once, twice, three times before I realized that it … Read More

Diet Books and Nutrition Books

I just received my latest order of nutrition and diet books.

My “to read” list has now expanded to include:

The ABS Diet by David Zinczenko
Underground Body Opus by Dan Duchaine
Marketing Nutrition by Brian Wansink
Food Politics by … Read More

Craig Ballantyne Workouts

There are a lot of things that my friend Craig Ballantyne and I don’t agree on (We share some very different philosophies when it comes to some aspects of nutrition), but one thing is for sure, when it comes to … Read More

The Things You Can Find On Google

After taking the plunge and “googling” myself, I’ve realized any hopes I may have had of convincing people I was a normal high school student have been completely destroyed by an excerpt from a 1996 issue of MacLean’s Magazine that … Read More