“Hey, what are you doing here?” It was said with genuine surprise as I walked out of my evening kickboxing class. Abby, my anorexic gym friend, was jogging on the treadmill nearest the door. I was surprised because I’d just seen her earlier that same day on the tail-end of a three-hour workout. Her eyes …
Quickie update guys! I got a very interesting e-mail from Dr. Phillips, the lead researcher in the Milk study I cited last week. After reading my post and my question as to whether the results would hold for women as well as “young men”, he wrote to tell me that he has just wrapped a …
It’s that time of year again – not Christmas, sillies – the time where every magazine comes out with their favorite countdown lists from the previous year! One of my faves (at least for today) is the top ten worst fitness myths. These babies definitely seem to persist year after year, even among those who …
You probably already knew this on some level but this recent study from the University of Washington (Hi Seattle! Hi!!!) backs you up: healthy food is more expensive than gastronomous garbage. Calorie for calorie, junk food is cheaper. Not only that but the price of said junk has stayed the same or dropped while healthy …
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I’ve been a vegan for quite a while now so when I read in Self magazine this month that people who drink a glass of milk post-workout loose four times as much weight as people drinking soy milk, it was with some dubiousness. (And I was on the treadmill, so making my “dubious face” almost …
I know you’ve all been waiting with bated breath for the results of my cardio-after-weights experiment, and, on a smaller scale for the results of my one-day caffeine experiment. So here’s the short answer: they worked! Or maybe they didn’t. Humph. This is what we in the business (the statistics business, people) call statistically insignificant. …
This man is trying to save his house with sand bags as the nearby river floods his Seattle home. We moved here, to the Midwest, from Seattle just over a year ago so I still have a strong attachment to the place. And I can tell you that this season’s torrential rain and flooding is …
It’s 1:49 in the morning. And I’m sitting here at my computer because I can’t sleep. Because someone was mean to me. I know, soooo sixth grade but there it is. For several weeks now, I have been the target of some mean girls at the gym (I should actually say “women” since they are …
What if you were your goal weight or size? Would being a size zero (or whatever) make you any happier than you are now? Would it change who you are? An interesting documentary out of the UK called Super Slim Me sent two female journalists on a quest to achieve the gold-standard of weight loss: …
The current issue of Newsweek has a fascinating article on that may finally explain why your college roommate could eat a box of Krispy Kremes for breakfast every morning chased by a six-pack of coke and still look like Kate Moss while you, at the merest lick of a Krispy Kreme would gain ten pounds. …
