My last weigh-in on the bathroom scale gave me 158 lbs; Wii Fit pegged me at 156.5. This is the lowest my weight has been in about 3 years. I was in the upper 150s when I left for Seattle, and after tearing my ACL and ending my lacrosse season, I came home weighing in the low 160s. Post-recovery, it went to the mid 160s, which I had attributed ( Read more... )

Michael Pollan frames my views on the ethics of eating meat. Then hits the nail on the head, hits it again with a sledgehammer, and hangs that framed view on the nail ( Read more... )

I have actually been harboring a suspicion for years that there's a strong link between excessive sugar consumption and a number of endocrine issues, including polycystic ovaries. It seems there might be something to it:

http://www.physorg.com/news113902673.html

I try not to get green preachy on here very often because Greentime is for that. Sometimes, though, I feel an urge to share information with people before I figure out how to work it into a cute video.

You know that tasty, tasty piece of bluefin tuna nigiri that you love so much? It has a 224 gram carbon footprint. The lump of tuna is about 15 ( Read more... )

Treehugger recently summarized and linked a New York Times article about how governmental agriculture policy helps fatten America. This is another example of what I mean when I talk about the pervasive societal trap that encourages bad dietary choices ( Read more... )

It's occurred to me that it was roughly three years ago when nancyblue and I embarked on our journey to correct our sick lifestyles. I threw off over 55 lbs. in the process, and I got down to by "fighting weight" of 149 lbs. I did gain back about 10 lbs when I was forced to spend a year being sedentary when I recovered from my ACL replacement surgery, but ( Read more... )

I've been commenting more and more on reduction of meat consumption as an important part of personal health and helping to move to a more sustainable diet ( Read more... )

I have been saying for years that there is an unwitting set of powerful players, each looking out for their own interests, that results in a general food industry designed to paralyze people when it comes to making healthy and proper food choices. I don't think it's a conspiracy with nefarious intent. I just think it's the gestalt of the state of ( Read more... )

So, my body has yet again decided to go into some sort of weird "low food intake" mode. This is happening with some regularity these days. The last real meal I ate was yesterday's lunch. Last night, I ate some almond cheese (yes...cheese made from almonds) with a little bit of low-calorie flatbread as a snack, which made me feel very full. ( Read more... )