
Quick quiz: what percent of the human body is water? If you said 70, you’re in good company, because that’s the number a lot of us got taught and never questioned. I said 70 for years. It turns out to be a bit high...

Quick quiz: what percent of the human body is water? If you said 70, you’re in good company, because that’s the number a lot of us got taught and never questioned. I said 70 for years. It turns out to be a bit high...

Truthfully, weight loss information can be a complete jumble. While one source will tell you to give up carbohydrates, another will recommend eating during the midday period of noon to 8PM. The other one will recommend lemon water as the key to the process....

10 a.m. Breakfast consisted of a bagel. It’s already gone, because your stomach is a critic. Some person somewhere in the hallway is munching on a granola bar, and you can hear it all. Does it sound like an ordinary Tuesday? A protein-forward diet...

Okay, quick confession. Most protein tubs look the same to me. Big letters, a dude with giant arms, and a flavor called “cookie dough.” Then you squint at the fine print, and one of them says “whey protein isolate.” Dymatize and Isopure, for example,...

Which fills you up more, a bowl of soup or a handful of chips?Soup. Even though the chips have way more calories. That odd little fact is the whole idea behind the Volumetrics diet, and honestly it’s the reason I like it. Same stomach,...

My neighbor cornered me at a barbecue last summer to tell me canola oil was, and I quote, “basically poison.” I didn’t have a great comeback at the moment. Went home, actually looked into it, and that’s how I ended up down this whole...

Never used to buy them because they looked so messy and a little expensive for what you were getting considering they sat in the same place as a neat little bag of apples. One day in the line waiting and bored, I finally saw...

My neighbor keeps a sticky note on her fridge that just says, “Did you drink water yet?” She’s had it there for maybe two years now. I used to think it was a little much. Then I noticed I go entire mornings running on...

Last year, my uncle bought one of those blood pressure monitors for home use; I think that was during early spring when his physician alerted him of his high blood pressure reading during an examination. He uses it almost every morning while seated at...

Last week, Maria spent ten minutes in the cereal section. She did not understand the labels. The doctor advised her to change to a gluten-free diet. That was the whole talk. No follow-up. No starter kit. Just a phrase and a shrug on the...
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