See? This is what happens with wheat! It makes you so crazy you start shucking clothes and the next thing you know you’re running through a scratchy field with nothing but your wheat-club to defend yourself with! Oh the horror – I must avert my eyes. (photo credit) Claim: Modern (a.k.a. monkeyed-with) wheat is bad …
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Health blogging rule #1: The fastest way to tick people off is to stomp on their favorite diet or workout. I have learned this the hard way (I’m still getting irate e-mails over what I wrote about the Every Other Day Diet 3 years ago) so I am going to tread lightly here. I wanted …
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See? Turtleneck leotards make her very happy. I want to be this happy. Except maybe with shoes on. That grass looks pokey. Do you like calisthenics? Jazz hands? Turtleneck leotards?? Then you will definitely want to get in on this mini-Experiment! For the next two weeks the Gym Buddies and I are going to be …
Read more “Neurokineseology and Fitness: 2 week mini-Experiment withT-Tapp (Giveaway!)”
I was a modern vegetarian runner, he was a paleolithic meat-loving functional exerciser – when we first met, we could not have been more different. Paleo/Primal style eating now has quite a few different flavors now but five years ago, it was new and with its exclusion of all grains, was also quite controversial. Whether …
I bet Marilyn was a rest-er. Did she like vodka? Maybe she was a Russian spy!! Right after “Who does she think she is? Where does she get off giving fitness advice?” (Answer: I’m a total nobody! And I try never to give advice. If anything, I live as an example of what not to …
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I love this ad! I bet Death is a smoker. Everything I learned about fitness models I learned from a stripper. Well, an ex-stripper. She was at the book-signing table next to me at local event a while back and because neither of us were selling any books (book signing = sitting and trying not …
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Paleo or vegan, conventional nutritionist or holistic healer, USDA lab rat or NY Times columnist – when it comes to how to be healthiest, there is a lot of disagreement but the one thing every expert* will tell you to do? Eat more vegetables! (Oh and drink water. Fine, that’s two things.) And yet when researchers …
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This is indeed a real cookbook. I hereby invoke awesomesauce. Advice columnists have a sweet gig. Basically they get to tell strangers how to run their lives without ever having to deal with the consequences. And yet, as I discovered during my senior year of my Psych degree, I am really really bad at giving …
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*Trigger warning for discussion of eating disorders* “I am so grateful that I love my body exactly the way it is, today, without wanting to change it in any way.” “My bra always fits fine in the morning, but by the afternoon my boobs are popping out of it. It’s like they swell or something. …
Two questions: Why would anyone ever buy a flesh-colored bikini? With suits in every imaginable color and pattern, who looks at this and thinks “You know what’s hot? Beige.” Also, what on earth is that lamb thingy on the table? Loaf of lamb? Bread ferret? Lawn art?? The fat-free 90’s loved it. Atkins banned it. …
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