For most of recorded history, fat was revered as a sign of health and prosperity. Plumpness was a status symbol. It showed that you did not have to engage in manual labor for your sustenance. And it meant that you could afford plentiful quantities of food. Rich people were fat. Poor people were thin. Today, the polar opposite is true. Numerous studies show that low-income children and adults are far more likely to be
Food, Inc. is out on DVD today. If you eat food and haven’t seen this movie, you should pick this up. Watch the video below, then get the video on Amazon. ~Dave
For every fitness and weight loss expert there is an equal and opposite fitness and weight loss expert. It’s a basic law of weight loss physics. And what it means is that there are plenty of different opinions out there on how to lose weight and get fit. I have my own, which are similar…
Kaizen is the Japanese philosophy of continuous improvement throughout all aspects of life on a daily basis. You may have heard the term kaizen before, most likely in the context of the business world. For instance, the philosophy of kaizen and continuous quality improvement was one of the driving reasons why Toyota and the other…
By Melanie Segala Are food manufacturers and government officials so callous that they are actually using children as guinea pigs when it comes to food labeling? Apparently so, according to the Chicago Tribune’s 2008 investigative report on hidden allergens in popular food products. Hidden food allergens are part of the reason that an estimated 30,000…
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