Simple Beans and Rice

This is not a recipe you will have time to make after a typical workday, but when you put it together on the weekend, you will have it to eat all through the week. You’ll Need: ·         1 pound dry red beans ·         1/4 cup olive oil ·         1...

Nutrition Month is 50 Shades of Crazy

OMG, whatever you do, do NOT eat chocolate! It gives you zits, makes you super fat, keeps you up at night because of the caffeine, rots your teeth, and while it’s not doing all those terrible things to you it’s helping your body develop diabetes. BTW, the bullet points...

Nutrition Month is 50 Shades of Crazy

OMG what EVER you do, don’t eat the … carbs!! They’re making you fat and emotional with saggy skin and premature aging!! Look. Thin healthy people eat carbs. Every day. The Japanese are famously thin and heart healthy and eat rice as an absolute staple of their diet. The...

Nutrition Month Is 50 Shades of Crazy

Nutrition science says fear the fats (then stops saying that). Nutrition science says fear the carbs (when other science says, no it’s what you SHOULD be eating). Nutrition science says drink AT LEAST 8 swimming pools of water each day (then stops saying that). Nutrition science says eggs will kill...

Overcoming Fitness Hurdles, Like Hating Fitness

Run on a treadmill? I’d rather chew on a tree. Join a gym and go grunt with the other hairy sweaters? I’d rather get habanero pepper juice in my eye. For some people, hating exercise isn’t just a hurdle, it’s a wall, a barrier, a insurmountable obstacle that you...

Overcome Fitness Hurdles, Like “no pain no gain”

This week I’m talking about your fitness and how to overcome the things that stop you from starting, and the other things you should start in order to stop stopping! The mantra No Pain, No Gain is for athletes going for peak performance — or Marc Walberg and Dwayne...

Overcome Fitness Hurdles, Like Starting At The End

This week I’m talking about your fitness and how to overcome the things that stop you from starting, and the other things you should start in order to stop stopping! I had a friend who used to run. Then life happened and he didn’t for years while he raised...

Overcome Fitness Hurdles, Like What’s In Your Head

This week I’m talking about your fitness and how to overcome the things that are stopping you from starting. The things you should start in order to stop stopping! First of all, look at those people running their tri-athalon iron flipping whatevers up mountains and swimming the English Channel...

Heart Health Hangs A Left. Is Butter Back?

All week, we’re going off-road to explore heart health along paths you knew were there, but are definitely the road less traveled by conventional sources. Science is all over the map on this one, but on average things seem to be much better for butter lately. The chart to...

Heart Health Hangs A Left: Bout Dat Beef

All week, we’re going off-road to explore heart health along paths you knew were there, but are definitely the road less traveled by conventional sources. We’re not supposed to eat red meat because it’s fats are said to be bad for your heart. But, it’s a little more complicated...