What Exactly is Canadian Food?
You ask, "There's Mexican food, Chinese food, and even Mongolian food but what's Canadian food?" All I know about is Canadian bacon, and I kind of doubt that's actually Canadian food. So, let's hear from Canadians: What's on the menu up north? Ah, found a few clues on...
Hypnosis in One Day, Or Money Back
I saw an ad in the paper for a one-day hypnosis workshop. It said, "If you don't lose weight, we'll return your money at the end of the workshop." How are you supposed to know if you lost weight when you've not been given a chance to go out in the real world and...
Does Phone Hell Make You Eat?
Here's the thing: If you want to call and ask a question, say, "What's the mailing address?" and you telephone your credit card company, chances are you're going to be faced with an exchange something like this: Company: "You have reached your Best Credit Card...
Are you Starving? Putting Hunger in Perspective
Putting Hunger In Perspective I recently read a book by the only man to have survived alone on a raft at sea for more than two months, Editor of Cruising World magazine, Steven Callahan. In "Adrift, Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea," Callahan recounted how while slowly...
Pumpkin Carving 101
Halloween Means More Than Eating Bags of Miniature Candy Bars Remember carving pumpkins as a kid? Mine always looked the same, but if I'd had the Pumpkin Carving Instructions found at Pumpkin-Carving.com, it could have been a different story. Everything you've always...
Binge Dieting Decreases Breast Cancer Risk in Mice
Mice Benefit from Yo-Yo Dieting Say Researchers Finally, another mouse study indicated that on-again, off-again dieting may actually prevent breast cancer in postmenopausal women. Mice on the so-called "yo-yo" diet regimen had a 96 percent reduction in cancer,...
I Hate Paying An Entry Fee to Websites
Annoying Sites that Make You Pay I just got burned again. I'm reading an article and it talks about some newsletter, with a link, so there I go to check it out, and guess what? When I take the link it says, "You have to subscribe," and it's $39 a year. Thanks, but no...
White Water Rafting for Scaredy Cats
2004 Deschutes River, Maupin, Oregon We're taking off for our annual trip to Maupin tomorrow. Here's a photo from last year's trip. I'm the wild woman hanging on for dear life in the top center. 😉 We're just on the edge of a nice big hole that turns into a bunch of...
Firemen & Fat Buts
I read, this post entitled Yes, Mr. Fireman that is my Ass! in CraigsList and just about fell over laughing. Kristy's blog, She Just Walks Around With it, is great, especially when you need a laugh or a...
Stop the Increase in Gas Tax for Washington State
Okay, this has nothing to do with weight loss, unless you consider the weight of your hard earned money, but here's the deal: In Washington State we already have one of the highest gas tax rates in the country. Now, with no real announcement or warning, our...
Artichokes for Weight Loss
High Cholesterol Helped with Artichoke Alpine Pure announced today the launch of its Artichoke, Echinacea and St. John's Wort herbal supplement product line in the United States. The product that caught my eye was Artichoke because they state it promotes improved...
Robot Dog Food Police
Weight Loss Monitoring Dog f you don't already have someone acting as the Food Police in your household, soon you can get a robot dog to take over that chore. Sony's Aibo TM robot dog is being used by Cynthia Breazeal and Cory Kidd at the MIT Media Lab in their...
I Hate Paying An Entry Fee to Websites
Annoying Sites that Make You Pay I just got burned again. I'm reading an article and it talks about some newsletter, with a link, so there I go to check it out, and guess what? When I take the link it says, "You have to subscribe," and it's $39 a year. Thanks, but no...
The Atkins Diet is Busted
Atkins Nutritionals Inc, has filed for bankruptcy protection with $301 billion in assets against $325 billion in debt Woe is me, who'd a thunk? The whole idea of those ridiculous "low carb" bread and "low carb" pancake mix and other offerings they shoved on an unwary...
Diet Candy: Sales are Huge
Think you have a sweet tooth? According to Packaged Foods, diet candy sales reached $495 million in 2004, more than four times the sales in 2000. The major contributing factor appears to be the increasing versatility of many artificial sweeteners, allowing for new...
Stop the Increase in Gas Tax for Washington State
Okay, this has nothing to do with weight loss, unless you consider the weight of your hard earned money, but here's the deal: In Washington State we already have one of the highest gas tax rates in the country. Now, with no real announcement or warning, our...
Splenda Cost Going Down
Good news! The price of Splenda may soon be going down! The primary patent held for Splenda by Tate & Lyle has already expired. They hold numerous other patents but this still opens the door to competition. Other companies can now create Splenda as well, and will...
PowerPops – Weight Loss Aid or Scam? You Decide
The PowerPops site states, "Power-Pops formula (patent pending) uses five natural ingredients to suppress appetite and provide energy. Power-Pops have approximately 32 calories. Now you can eat candy and LOSE WEIGHT too." Uh, huh. Farther down they state, " Power Pops...
Google Gulp is Here, But Where’s the Diet Version?
Those wacky kids at Google are at it again. If you don't know right away what I mean, check out this new offering: Visit Google Gulp What's this? "Think fruity. Think refreshing," says Google. "Think a DNA scanner embedded in the lip of your bottle reading all 3...
Putting Hunger in Perspective
I recently read a book by the only man to have survived alone on a raft at sea for more than a month, Editor of Cruising World magazine, Steven Callahan. In Adrift, Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea, Callahan recounted how while slowly starving he dreamt of food "My body...
Aspartame Increases Appetite
Did you know aspartame the artificial sweetener in thousands of products has been linked with increased appetite? Just the thing our hapless dieter needs. If you're addicted to soft drinks it's most likely caffeine you crave and it could be those soft drinks...
Sweet Offers That Suddenly Go Sour
I see an offer for a free CD/DVD that I'd like anyway. It's a copy of "Business is Booming" which is a CD about direct marketing, blah, blah, and so whatever, it's being offered free for postage only. Okay, so I'm game. I check it out and what do I find? It's $9.47...
Chocolate Tasting Party
The Well Duh! Report Just about everything I read in research journals and in the news makes me say, my "Well, duh!" Henceforth I'll be providing my "Well Duh! Report." To think of the millions of dollars wasted on researchers going back and...
Walmart to Sell Splenda Next, The World!
In their quest to take over everything, Walmart has managed to secure the raw materials to produce their own variety of Splenda, despite Splenda being trademarked by Britain's Tate & Lyle. Now, it's fine to develop as similar sweetener but where it gets sticky (no...
Be Annoying Go To Jail?
Word on the street is its illegal to annoy on the Internet if you do it anonymously, but perfectly fine if you do it with your real name. That's not quite correct. Here's the best explanation by The Volokh Conspiracy in A Skeptical Look at "Create an E-annoyance, Go...
Does Phone Hell Make You Eat?
Here's the thing: If you want to call and ask a question, say, "What's the mailing address?" and you telephone your credit card company, chances are you're going to be faced with an exchange something like this: Company: "You have reached your Best Credit Card...
Help for Children with Diabetes
If you or your children suffer from diabetes, you need to know about Bios Life 2Clinically proven to reduce cholesterol and now blood pressure, but even more exciting is what it can do for someone with diabetes. David Allen, Ph.D sent me the following explanation...
Zsweet: New No Calorie Natural Sweetener
I received my samples of ZSweet(TM), and I'm impressed. This stuff looks and feels, and most importantly tastes the most like real sugar than any other alternative sweetener, yet it has zero calories. Keep in mind, whenever you're told something has zero calories they...
Chocolate Cheese: Does Asia Needs More Heart Disease
Okay, at first I thought yuck, and then I realized, wait a minute! I love cheesecake and how's that different than this new chocolate cheese product? The New Zealand dairy company, Fonterra, has a mission to "re-define cheese." Uh, okay. They are presently targeting...
Sugar Advertising: Are Alternative Sweetners a Threat?
It's Sweet, Just Like Nature! I've been hearing adverts for sugar on the radio on my daily drive to Portland. They start out talking about how things smell, "oooh, smell that aroma of fresh baked peach cobbler," says one. First, that's dumb. You can't get...