Posts Tagged ‘nutrition’

9 Reasons Cooking Advice Belongs on a Productivity Blog

There are plenty of obvious topics for a blog focused on making your life easier: time management tips, career advice and even a little personal finance information. But cooking advice doesn’t immediately come to mind. Considering how much time we each spend daily on eating — let alone eating healthily and cheaply — I think a little cooking advice could be very productive, and I’ve got nine good… » Continue

April 15 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: cooking, health, meal planning, nutrition, personal finance, scheduling | 12 comments»

The Top 10 Nutrition Myths Busted

Medical News Today turn Mythbusters in this rundown of ten well known nutritional mottoes. Just because you hear it a hundred times doesn’t mean they’re entirely true.

10. Eating carbohydrates makes you fat.
9. Drink eight, 8-oz. glasses of water per day.
8. Brown grain products are whole grain products.
7. Eating eggs will raise your cholesterol. This myth began because egg yolks have the most concentrated amount of cholesterol of any

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March 30 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: myth, nutrition | 14 comments»

Avoiding Seasonal Weight Gain

I suppose this article is timely only for those in the hemisphere that is currently approaching winter. All you lucky ducks heading for bright lights and sunshine will just have to file this one away for a few months.

For those of us moving into the long dark tea time of the soul known as winter, an ominous question presents itself.

Do you pack on the extra pounds in the long… » Continue

November 1 2006 | By Reginald | Tagged: diet, eating, health, Lifehack, nutrition, weight | 7 comments»

A Growing Problem

The following numbers track the increase in obesity in children from 1963-2002 by percent.

1963-1965 4.2%
1976-1980 6.5%
1999-2002 25.8%

Here are some more facts for adults. Many of the statistics come from U.S. data bases others are taken from the World Health Organization.

24.1% of men aged 20-34 are obese
25.2% of men aged 35-44 are obese
30.1% of men aged 45-54 are

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September 11 2006 | By Reginald | Tagged: diet, health, nutrition | 1 comment»

Fitness from Everyday Systems

Reinhard Engels is a superhero. I first learned about him through his Shovelglove workout (which I think I first saw on Lifehacker.com). But Reinhard doesn’t just stop with a great exercise using a sledgehammer covered with a sweater (I’m not kidding). Instead, Reinhard has gone on to develop solutions to pretty much all of his problems with various health issues resulting from personal choices.

Here’s the easy to follow… » Continue

August 23 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: DIY, fitness, hacks, health, howto, nutrition, reinhard+engels, shovelglove, systems | 5 comments»

Tips for Eating Better

Gretchen Rubin from The Happiness Project is weighing in with her Wednesday Tips series. This week she’s here to help us eat better. Here’s a sampler platter:
Paradoxically, studies show that over time, people who diet tend to gain more weight than people who don’t diet. Here are some non-dieting tips for eating better that have worked for me:1. To have a tastier salad without adding calories—yes, this sounds… » Continue

June 14 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: fitness, hack, happinessproject, health, Lifestyle, nutrition, tips | 1 comment»