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Archive for December, 2008

Ode to Bacon: Part 7

Posted in Bacon, Eating Habits, tagged , , , , , , , on December 18, 2008 | 11 Comments »

Fat people love bacon!
This is the seventh part in a series dedicated to fat people’s love for bacon.  At least once a week  Whenever I get around to it, I will post either someones odd use of it in a food dish, or just a new and inventive way to bring bacon to our palates.
This edition is inspired by [...]

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Mystery Product Quiz

Posted in Advertisements, BIG Picture, HUGE, Other, tagged , , , , , , on December 17, 2008 | 14 Comments »

This product came up in discussion with Chris, the administrator of
The Unfat Blog, and My Fat Spouse.
I’m going to let you guess what it is.
Before you click on the links below that take you to the product websites, leave your comment telling us what you think it is.  Then let us know if you were [...]

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Interval Training and You

Posted in BIG Picture, Fitness, tagged , , , , , , , , on December 15, 2008 | 4 Comments »

Jay, over at her blog Find Your Strength, has a good post about the importance of interval training for everyone, not just athletes.
Jay says:
As you prepare to undertake a new fitness program, don’t get sucked into programs that prescribe hours upon hours of cardio each week. Not only are those kind of workouts ineffective for [...]

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The American Diabetic Association Wusses Out

Posted in BIG Picture, Diabetes, tagged , , , , , , , on December 10, 2008 | 7 Comments »

As you’ll see here, the ADA allows a drug company sponsor to get in the way of publishing results by a doctor that (…get this…) uses proper nutrition to have his diabetic patients no longer require their medications.
You’d think that if a medical doctor were doing this with as much success as Dr. Fuhrman is [...]

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“Health” Care Spending vs. Life Expectancy

Posted in BIG Picture, Rants, tagged , , , , , , , , , on December 9, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Let’s have some fun with charts…
Sorry for the age of these.  They are the best I could find, but they speak the same message.  Keep an eye out for Japan, Australia, Canada, and the good ol’ USA.

 

 

 
Anyone see anything wrong here?
Shouldn’t twice as much money as any other country decrease our mortality rates due to [...]

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NEWSFLASH: JUNK FOOD BAD part 2

Posted in Eating Habits, Science, tagged , , , , , , , on December 4, 2008 | 7 Comments »

LET’S GET DEMENTED!!
Looks like we’ve got more links between the slop we eat, and your grandma Margaret forgetting your name again.
Perhaps Homer can’t be blamed for his loopy absent minded parental behavior.
 
Reuters reports:
Mice fed junk food for nine months showed signs of developing the abnormal brain tangles strongly associated with Alzheimer’s disease, a Swedish researcher [...]

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Processed People: A Documentary

Posted in Other, tagged , , , , , , , , on December 3, 2008 | 13 Comments »

I am looking forward to this one.
Unfortunately, the film is only about 35 minutes long, and will not be released in theatres.  It does however have over 60 extra minutes of interviews with each of the experts that were a part of it’s making. 
Here is the trailer for it: 
 

 
It doesn’t come out for [...]

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