Clothing Review

Today I’m doing something a little different.  I’m going to review a top I ordered and received from B&lu.
Specifically, this top: http://www.bandlu.com/product.asp?item=carl
The top was on sale, so I can’t sent it back.  And believe me, if I could send it back, I would. 
Where the description says that it is “slightly sheer” it is misleading.  The [...]

Meme-age and diet

I was reading my daily round of blogs today, and a friend had one with meme-age from a new meme blog (http://wednesdayweird.blogspot.com/).  I looked at the questions, and found one from only two weeks ago that was all about diets.
It’s sad when dieting is so endemic to our culture, that a meme blog that’s in [...]

A little more on why Alton Brown’s comments irritate me so much.

The other day, when I was upset about Alton Brown’s comments (http://www.ecorazzi.com/2008/09/10/food-star-alton-brown-talks-sustainability/), one of the things I said was that he sells food.
What I meant by that is he sells the concept of food.  His main show on Food Network is called Good Eats.  In that show, he talks about the science behind making food [...]

And it’s back to normal…

Yesterday I blogged about the article in the NYT about eating for satisfaction, remember?
Well, today it’s back to business as usual.  In the NYT fitness section, they have an article about walking on treadmills while working in a cubicle farm (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/health/nutrition/18fitness.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1221934394-R2cpbb8FZ6koGXiFYCfADA).  The quote I find most disturbing?  “After a while, your legs do get kind [...]

Wow

An article in the NYT, about eating to enjoy, rather than dieting.  One that’s NOT condemning of people who eat what they want.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/17/dining/17diet.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
The final quote:
Marion Nestle, the New York University nutritionist whose book “What To Eat” (North Point Press, 2006) focuses on sensible eating, said she thinks people view food as the enemy, when the [...]

“Just find another doctor”

Yesterday, while eating dinner with my husband and mother-in-law, Oprah was on the TV.  The show was about health.  One segment (the first) was about a woman who had a 140 pound tumor in her stomach, and how she finally was able to get it removed after 20 years.
Now, Oprah had a doctor on the show, Dr. [...]

Alton Brown, you should be ashamed.

But not for what you think you should be ashamed for.
 ”I’ve struggled with weight all my life, and probably always will. But I was on my most recent book tour I was shocked by the number of overweight families,” he says. “People would come up to me and say, ‘Oh, we love the Food Network.’ [...]

How is health food any healthier?

This is something I’ve been asking for a while.  How is health food really any healthier than regular food?
Hear me out here.
Yesterday, I went to the local Safeway (grocery store in the southwest of the USA) and picked up a  couple bags of ’snap pea crisps’.  They are fried snap peas, fried in corn oil [...]

Only four hours of exersize a day?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26611180/ Go, read this first.
Okay, you back?
So, now, besides eating a starvation diet, I also have to exercise for four hours a day? Ummmm, in what universe is that really a viable solution?
Oh, wait, people who are rich can afford to be thin. People like Madonna or Oprah who do nothing all day long (okay, [...]

Welcome to my Living Room

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