I ate this raw vegan shit last night. I now I have terrible food poisoning. I am vomiting up bright green liquid that smells like sewage and my other end is like that dam that burst open and the little Dutch kid had to put his thumb in it but I don’t have any one […]
Thanks to CrossFit and myself not wanting to be one of the sheep following blindly without thinking for myself, I’ve become caught up in the low carb vs. “a calorie is a calorie” debate. It seems the low carb people are
making more money right now (though weight watchers does pretty well), but what does that […]
I got sucked into the nutrition reading again. Came across a few interesting things.
For 16 people over 33 days, a calorie is just a calorie: carb or fat, they’re all the same. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol 55, 350-355, 1992.
Diets rich in fat may promote obesity by leading to a greater deposition of adipose-tissue […]
Sigh. I know I can’t write about this on my gym website or the Crossfit website because I’ve learned that within the Crossfit community, regardless of what you think, you don’t question the dogma. So I’ll just talk to myself here to alleviate the pain. Forgive me for I have sinned.
I found a free […]
A few studies have come out in the past 3 months about dietary carbs, glycemic load/index and their association with disease.
Arch Intern Med. 2007 Nov 26;167(21):2310-6. Prospective study of dietary carbohydrates, glycemic index, glycemic load, and incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus in middle-aged Chinese women.
Villegas R, Liu S, Gao YT , Yang G , […]
I’m a sucker for packaging. And tea.
So now I have this weird Yogi Tea addiction. Every time I have some sort of problem: nausea, feeling bloated, stress, anxiety, I go to the co-op and buy a tea to cure myself. There is something about the packaging that I find very soothing and I feel convinced […]
I was reading this article What if bad fat isn’t so bad? onMSNBC today and I started to wonder, what if carbs aren’t so bad either?
This carbs and insulin thing really makes my brain spin. Everywhere you look, it says that carbs raise your insulin and insulin makes you fat. There are dozens of health […]
Only a few days after I wrote about Crossfit and the Zone, a reprint from the Crossfit journal addressing that exact issue shows up on the Crossfit website. Coincidence? Probably. Anyway I wrote a few comments, asking their opinion on the JAMA published research that shows that that 1) the Atkins diet was more effective […]
Something has really been bothering me lately, specifically Crossfit and the Zone. Many Crossfitters swear by The Zone Diet (see: Barry Sears, PhD), and I am having a hard time discovering any specific reason why they love the Zone Diet over any other diet, since it seems the “results” they see are merely the results […]
So over the past 3 months it appears I have developed interstitial cystitis (a.k.a. urethral syndrome and other things). For those of you fortunate enough not to know about the joys of the IC, I will tell you. It’s sort of like having a UTI, but without any bacteria to kill. You have to pee […]