I know eating healthy and exercising is supposed to be about living longer and having better days when I’m alive, but for me it has been about appearances for so long that I STILL have trouble separating them.
When am I going to let the beautiful part of me win?
PostSecret‘s beneficiary is the National Hopeline Network. It is a 24-hour hotline (1 (800) SUICIDE) for anyone who is thinking about suicide or knows someone who is considering it.
According to The Institute of Food Technologists, organic food is no healthier than conventionally grown foods. They published their study here:
They admit that there are differences in the levels of pesticide residue and natural toxins, but there is no scientific evidence that these levels can harm humans.
“While many studies demonstrate . . . qualitative differences between organic and conventional foods, it is premature to conclude that either food system is superior to the other with respect to safety or nutritional composition. Pesticide residues, naturally occurring toxins, nitrates, and polyphenolic compounds exert their health risks or benefits on a dose-related basis, and data do not yet exist to ascertain whether the differences in the levels of such chemicals between organic foods and conventional foods are of biological significance.”
Considering organically grown food can cost more than twice conventionally grown food, it looks like the only bastion for organic food is taste. Sometimes, organic food has tasted better to me, but now I’m wondering if that was just me trying to convince myself that it was worth the extra cost.
As it is, the health benefits of organic food have evaporated under scientific scrutiny.
Based on the new and improved graphics on Apple’s website, it looks like the answer is YES!
This gives me so much hope for the iPhone. If they are able to make the Nike+ work with the new iPod Nano, then maybe they have an update for the iPhone in the works. I would love to be able to forsake my beautiful red Nano for just the iPhone. Carrying a phone while on my runs is something I do anyway. This way, I would only need to carry one device.
Please, Apple, do the iPhone update for me…
Update: Here are the screen shots of the new Nano and how it works with the Nike+:
They really should have stopped at the opening sentence:
“Sometimes in this job you come across something that sounds too good to be true.”
This article from Shiny Shiny is written by Alex Roumbas and her experience exercising with Power Plate.
She claims to have success with it, but I can’t find any scientific studies to show that working out with the Power Plate is any better than working out without it. Where’s the proof?
It reminds me of an old exercise machine. Back in the 1950’s and 60’s, the cool exercise machine was a vibrating belt. Remember it? It didn’t do much for weight loss back then. Why is this old school machine being brought back out and retooled? I have a hard time believing them the second time around.
I’m ready for the weight loss industry to stop with all the hype. How about you?
You can finally participate in the Starling Fitness walking and running Challenges whether you have a Nike+iPod or not. If you would like to compete against runners on your level, here are the links for next week’s challenges:
Level 1 weekly challenge from Starling Fitness. This level runs between 0-10 miles a week.
Level 2 weekly challenge from Starling Fitness. This level runs between 10-20 miles a week.
Level 3 weekly challenge from Starling Fitness. This level runs between 20-30 miles a week.
Level 4 weekly challenge from Starling Fitness. This level runs between 30-40 miles a week.
Level 5 weekly challenge from Starling Fitness. This level runs between 40-50 miles a week.
Level 6 weekly challenge from Starling Fitness. This level runs between 50-60 miles a week.
A great big shout-out to the guys at Runner+ who have worked their butts off making the challenges available to us! Yeah!
I have spent a lot of words writing about how much I love and hate Nike+. I love the gadget, but I HATE Nike’s website. Now, I don’t have to worry about Nike’s slow and lumbering website anymore. I can track my runs on Runner+.
Runner+ automatically downloads my runs from Nike’s website, so all I have to do is sync my iPod after my run and check out my graphs on their beautiful site.
The graphs are what made me fall in love with Runner+. Here is a comparison. This is the graph of my latest run on Nike+’s website:
Here is the Runner+ graph for the SAME run:
Runner+ gets their data from the Nike+ website, so your iPod is gathering all that data, but Nike isn’t allowing you to see it. With Runner+, you get to choose how detailed you want your graph to be.
The cool thing about Runner+ is that you don’t have to own a Nike+iPod to make it work. It will work with the Garmin Forerunner 305 and 205 (and maybe even the new Garmin Forerunner 50). You can also enter your data by hand, so if you run on the treadmill and want to keep track of your data, you can.
Best of all, you don’t need a fancy Nike+ to compete with other people. With the Runner+ Challenges, you can run against people all over the world.
Tune in tomorrow for links to the Starling Fitness Weekly Challenges for next week. If you’d like to see my runs online, you can do that here:
This commercial is brilliant.
If you missed the joke, watch it again.
Steven Tyler is the lead singer of Aerosmith. He’s known for his thin frame and big lips. This weblog assumes that Steven Tyler has an eating disorder.
He is quoted:
“I have to watch what I eat because I have this ongoing nightmare that I’m going to put on weight and end up looking like some of the other rock stars of a certain age who bounce around the stage. You look at them and think, ‘Oh my God, what happened to you? How did you let yourself get like that?’ I always call Joe Perry, my bandmate, and say, ‘Do you still weigh 145 pounds?’ “For God’s sake I still want to be able to fit into those pants I wore on the last tour. I just live by the motto that nothing tastes as good as being thin feels. I don’t eat regularly during the day and in the evening I tend to stick to wild salmon and broccoli. Every night before I get into bed, I do 250 sit-ups religiously.”
He exercises. He eats fish and vegetables. He works hard to stay fit, but the gossip rags assume he has an eating disorder.
Is this right?
There are times when we are with family, friends or coworkers. They want us to eat what they are eating.
How do you NOT eat unhealthy food that isn’t in your food plan?
I have continually caved in these situations. I would really like to know what you say or what you do to avoid ruining your food plan.
If you think it’s hard to eat healthy when you’re dieting, just imagine how hard it would be to eat healthy on $3 a day. What can you eat for a buck a meal? The food stamp program in the U.S. was meant as a supplement, but there are those who survive on their food stamps. How do they do it?
Here is a radio interview with a food critic who took the Food Stamp Diet Challenge:
You can read his editorial here:
If you would like to try to take the Food Stamp Diet Challenge yourself (as was done by many politicians) to see what it would be like to live on $3 a day, there is a detailed PDF that you can download from this site.
Is this a good weight loss technique? No, but it’s an inspiring way to teach compassion for those who are in a bad situation. No one would willingly choose to live like this.
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