As just about everyone knows I have a bit of a sweet tooth and am very fortunate that my metabolism allows me to eat some chocolate (my wife says I deserve to be fat). Anyway we had a bit of a scare this week when there was a recall and fears of salmonella poisoning involving many Hershey products … [Read more...] about Canada Hershey Chocolate Salmonella Scare
Fast Food Nation – The Movie
Fast Food Nation is a movie coming out, or is out depending on where you live, that looks at the dark side of the fast food industry. Apparently 1 in 8 adults in America have at one point received a paycheck from a fast food chain and this is a real problem, you will buy what you know, and the … [Read more...] about Fast Food Nation – The Movie
Healthy fast food and trans fats
I am a bit of a fan of Wendy's restaurants, and yes I am aware of how fatty and devoid of nutrients a Wendys hamburger and fries are. I just saw a story last week with Consumer Reports doing a fallow up of Wendys claim that they would be eliminating trans fats from their deep frying process by … [Read more...] about Healthy fast food and trans fats
Kirstie Alley on Oprah
Today I watched my first Oprah episode in years. The reason I watched Oprah? Kirstie Alley was on to talk about her weight loss over the last year. It has been a pretty amazing year and between the media machine that Jenny Craig created and the media machine that is Oprah this was a very talked … [Read more...] about Kirstie Alley on Oprah
Eating plans
One of the problems that I have every weekend is my eating. I tend to eat pretty well during the week and can tweak that if I want but on weekends I tend to eat pretty badly and inconsistently. Why do you think that is? Well the reason is a daily meal plan. All major diets have a meal plan where … [Read more...] about Eating plans
