The canary in the coal mine.
Don't ask me, but beauty may only be skin deep. However if you have too much deep fat, you may be in deep shit. Subcutaneous fat resides just below the surface of your skin. People carry it in different ways. Are you an apple? Are your a pear? Maybe a banana? It's hard to reduce fat. You can't reduce it one spot. Visceral fat surrounds your intestines, kidneys, liver, pancreas & other vital organs. It's much worse than subcutaneous fat. Fat is more than skin deep. Whenev
Avoid the food matrix - shopping gone bad.
I just had a Neo moment learning about the psychology of supermarkets. If you're not aware of the tricks grocery stores play, you'll buy more & get less nutritional value. Let's start with the ubiquitous shopping cart. Shopping carts have been around since 1937. They debuted at Humpty Dumpty in Oklahoma. Shopping carts are getting bigger. You'll buy more things if you have a larger shopping cart. Studies have shown that when you double the size of the shopping cart, consu
What's in your glove compartment?
How is it possible that Iowa with only 6 electoral votes or North Carolina with only 15 electoral votes could decide the presidential election? It takes 270 electoral votes to win. Iowa will cast 2.2 percent of all electoral votes. North Carolina will cast 5.5 percent of all electoral votes. Breakfast, lunch & dinner may be California (55 electoral votes), Texas (38 electoral votes) & Florida or New York (29 electoral votes). However, the snack that you eat or don't eat whe
Beware of the food Halloween halo.
We all know that eating & drinking is as much if not more psychological than physical. The other day I came across the "health halo effect". We're getting duped. We've come to believe that if a food or drink has one healthy trait, it's a healthy food. We see gluten free, sugar free, fat free, natural, organic, local, etc. & we assume it's healthy. However an organic doughnut is still a doughnut. It contains all of the calories, fat, sugar & let's not forget deliciousn
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