Archive for the 'health' Category
Things I Love
Black marble composition books. I own boxes full of them, and they’re pretty much all empty. There’s something nostalgic about these things. I was forced to write “journal entries” in these during Sunday School when I was little. I remember quite clearly answering a prompt about Moses with a longwinded answer about Moses Malone. I [...]
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Aspartame done effed me up.
For a while I was–with the exception of a diet soda every day–eating “naturally.” I wasn’t ingesting any of those silly chemicals. My diet consisted solely of fresh fruits and vegetables, lean meats, and dry cereals.
So when I jumped back on the “artificially sweetened candy” train, I wasn’t [...]
Meat George Jetson
This is not a post discussing the merits of designing a life-sized cartoon character out of animal flesh.
This is a post about my falling-out with vegetarianism.
When I was dieting, I cut meat out of my diet entirely. It wasn’t out of any particular sociopolitical agenda, nor was it by the design of some radical [...]
Soulja Soy
For a few years now, I’ve been hearing nothing but trash-talk about soy–that it is not a “complete” source of protein; that it is no longer seen as “heart-healthy;” that it is full of phytoestrogens. What are phytoestrogens? Will they make me grow boobies?
The misleadingly-named Testosterone Nation reports in defense of soy, and in the [...]
Mememmeme
I was not tagged for this meme! Instead, I stole it unceremoniously from one of the three hundred food blogs I read, iheartfood4thought.
It is like a MySpace vanity survey, except I have invited it into my food-related house and OH SCREW IT this is a MySpace vanity bulletin.
On Culinary Arts…
Q. What is your salad [...]
Will you teach me about this…what is it? A new way?
Welp.
For two-and-a-half years, I ate the same thing every day: Kashi GoLean, Wheaties, apples, Lite & Fit yogurt, Boca vegan burgers, broccoli, and protein shakes. I lost 120 pounds. I was maintaining with 1800 calories at about 180 pounds.
Two weeks ago, I added variety into my diet. I’ve upped my calories to 2000. I’ve actually [...]
Ugly Food For an Ugly Dude
If you’ve been reading my silly blogs, you’ll know the following:
In April of 2005 I weighed 300 pounds. By November I had dropped to 170. I had done it in a completely unhealthy way.
As a result, I ate the same exact thing EVERY DAY from November 2005 to February 2008 to avoid depriving [...]
Numbers
Rabbits have a life expectancy of 5 to 15 years. Rats are expected to live from 2 to 3 years before they die of old age. These animals are domesticated, kept in the safest of conditions; they have doctors that specialize in animal care; they are sustained by diets that are specifically tailored to the [...]
Read More..>>Attention Wal-Mart Shoppers: keep your hands off my package
The other day I was in the housewares section at Wal-Mart and I saw something fairly weird. Not surprising, because it’s Wal Mart and chances are good that you’ll see four hick-weddings and a funeral when you walk down those aisles at the right time.
Honestly, Wal-Mart is like flypaper. You’re going to find the same [...]