How to Make Hard Boiled Eggs

You would think making hard-boiled eggs is easy, but it can be tricky. And if you follow the slow-carb diet featured in the book “The Four-Hour Body,” you will eat a lot of hard-boiled eggs. To be honest with you I had never really eaten, or made, a lot of hard-boiled eggs before I read the... [Read more]

Should I Buy the 20-Second Workout?

The “20-Second Fitness” training program is a riff on the legitimate Tabata Interval method of high-intensity training. As a matter of fact, of all of the marketing-driven/created exercise programs that I have encountered over the years the underpinnings of this “20-Second Fitness”... [Read more]

Don’t Buy HCG Dietary Supplements

I have written about the nonsensical HCG Diet. It’s barbaric and won’t work. Now the federal government has stepped in to prevent supplement hucksters from selling HCG weight loss supplements. This dreck is sold in various forms and the FDA has issued warning letters to seven companies that... [Read more]

Holiday Eating Guide – 2011

The Holidays. The time of year when many people start to stress about eating. What should be an enjoyable experience has become a problems for far too many people. And there is no shortage of meddlesome butt-in-skis who want to tell everyone else how they should eat. Talk about your Scrooges! Bah humbug... [Read more]

Europe Says Water Doesn’t Prevent Dehydration

“If ever there were an episode which demonstrates the folly of the great European project then this is it.” I really wish I could take credit for crafting this line. I cannot imagine a more appropriate response to the ridiculous measure taken by the European Union in outlawing the product claim that... [Read more]

Should I Take Collagen or Hoodia Supplements?

I have long been on the anti-supplement band wagon for a couple of reasons. 1) I don’t like to be scammed and 2) There isn’t any science-based evidence to support the use of the vast, vast majority of supplements. Over at the web site www.ScienceBasedMedicine.org there is a whole lot of... [Read more]

Joe Paterno Must Resign Immediately

If Joe Paterno is half the man he has been advertised to be, he should resign before Penn State plays Nebraska Saturday. I don’t want to hear about how unfortunate it is that his career is going to end over the child molestation scandal involving Penn State and former assistant football coach Jerry... [Read more]

Did Alternative Medicine Have a Negative Impact on Steve Jobs’ Health

In the aftermath of Steve Jobs’ death there has been debate regarding the course of treatment that he chose to treat his cancer. Many people have opined that the original course of action Jobs took, featuring an alternative diet, doomed him, and that those closest to him begged him to take advantage... [Read more]

Bikes and Skateboards Are More Dangerous than Football

Football has been getting a lot of attention over the past few years. Concussion awareness, and the damage caused by repeated blows to the head – concussion inducing or not – has been front page news. However, there are other, much more dangerous and deadly activities that people engage... [Read more]

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