Archive for the 'Healthy Ramblings' Category

70 years later…and breakfast is still the target…

Check out this POST regarding a General Mills Cereal ad from 1943 on the ‘health benefits of Breakfast’…then give this a look….

Really, it’s just like fashion… we just keep going in circles.

BP

PS- I don’t hate breakfast. … Read More

‘In the Trenches’ Experience

Imagine if other industries behaved like the health and fitness industry…using the same off-the-wall marketing and the same “action before education or preparation” mentality.

Imagine this approach in…say… aerospace engineering:

Speaker: And in conclusion, that is my theory on how … Read More

The “Strange Custom” of fasting

***Special Thanks to Brian for this find.

Every wonder why breakfast is good and fasting is bad?

This is an ADVERTISEMENT that was found in “The Milwaukee Journal” back in 1943

I’ve also blown up the text part so you … Read More

2000 Calories

2,000 Calories

Ever wonder what it looks like?

Health Canada recently put together a website called “My Food Guide” that tells you what you are supposed to eat.

So here’s how it works

You enter your gender and your age … Read More

Social Support…Yes or No?

I’ve come almost full circle on my opinion of needing social support for weight loss.

Personally I don’t want (or like) social support.

Because my diet is my business.

It creeps me out that people feel the need to discuss … Read More

A SIGNIFICANT cause of overeating

I arrived home from my family trip to see my newly finished kitchen floor.

It was beautiful.

I remember thinking to myself..I’m finally getting this fixer-upper to somewhere approaching respectability.

I wasn’t planning on doing the floor, but the old … Read More

Eat MORE

Let me be your tour guide through this little piece of marketing.

Firstly, “Studies Show“…You see so much “Studies Show”, “Science Says” and “Experts Think” that it is now an ambiguous term that really has no meaning…at least … Read More

Eating 500 Less Calories to Lose Weight is a Joke.

Some ‘quick and dirty’ math today.

Here is a hypothetical situation for you…

Your basal metabolic rate is 1,500 calories (Remember, this is just an example I’m not saying that YOUR BMR is exactly 1,500).

If you include your daily … Read More

Weight Loss Spam

This was the latest spam left on my website, my comments in RED.

Hello

I am new to this spot. I found loads of useful information here. I would also like to contribute some thing for this community. I … Read More

Natural Foods, Taoism and other …stuff

Just a quick ramble to start your week.

The following is a basic tenant of Taoism:

Things in their original simplicity contain their own natural power, power that can be spoiled when that simplicity is changed.

This principle seems to … Read More