Monthly Archives: July 2010

Osso Bucco a la Irishman!

Just so you know and can pretend like you knew all along when you cook this for your friends, Osso Bucco is a Milanese dish. The name means “bone with a hole” or “hollowed bone” which refers to the veal shank bone with a large and tasty marrow filling. By braising (slow cooking) the meat [...]

Drew Carey: Low Carb Celebrity Sex Symbol

According to People magazine, Drew Carey has dropped 80 lbs and reversed his Type-2 diabetes since starting a low carb diet back in January. That’s 80 lbs in 7 months….or just over 11 lbs per month. And no more diabetes. So, how did he do it? “No carbs,” Carey says. “I have cheated a couple [...]

Health Habits Workout – Week 30 – Day 3

get out & enjoy the great summer weather – winter will be here soon enough Goals: This is another “bridge” week designed to allow your energy systems a break from the high intensity workouts you have been doing for the past four weeks. Alternately, you could skip these workouts and try a rousing game of Family [...]

Calling all Paleo Foodies

Following up on my first E-book – A Paleo Diet for the 21st Century, I have decided to create a Paleo Cookbook. And I need your help. This book is going to be different than the first one. Instead of writing everything myself, I am recruiting Paleo-Foodie bloggers to help me create the biggest & [...]

Attention Loners: Popular People Live Longer

In their study Social Relationships and Mortality Risk, BYU professors Julianne Holt-Lunstad and Timothy Smith have found that your social connections – friends, family, neighbors and colleagues – improve your odds of survival by 50 percent. In fact, living a life with few social connections is…. Equivalent to smoking 15 cigarettes a day Equivalent to [...]

Omega 6 Fatty Acids ….and the Genetic Obesity Timebomb

Original Image: http://fxcuisine.com Back in the day, your ancestors used to eat… Meat -i.e  beef, pork, chicken, fish, seafood, etc… Vegetables Fruit Nuts & Seeds Seed Oils Water Today, in addition to deep fried pizza,  we eat oodles of: Processed meat Processed vegetables…mostly deep fried potatoes of some variety Processed fruit – mostly juice Processed [...]

Nasty Tabata Workouts

For all of you HIIT ers and Crossfitters who are sick and tired of endless sets of Tabata Thrusters or Tabata BW Squats, here are some new & nasty Tabata workouts for you to enjoy. Maybe enjoy isn’t the right word. Tabata Workout # 1 This one is a core killer. I have paired an [...]

Health Habits Workout – Week 30/Day 1

Goals: We’re back to a “bridge” week - designed to allow your energy systems a break from the high intensity workouts you have been doing for the past four weeks. Alternately, you could skip these workouts and try a rousing game of Family Fun Fitness or go to a yoga or pilates class or grab some friends [...]

13 Misleading Food Labels

Ridiculous Food Labels that Might Be Fooling Youby Vin Miller With the ridiculous and misleading claims that are made on the packaging of many foods, it can be difficult to differentiate the truth from devious marketing. This is important because the failure to make this distinction can have a significant impact on your health and [...]

The Mind Gym

In the fitness world it is not uncommon to question the path that we have chosen for fitness. Fitness periodicals and the media are a big reason for fitness confusion.  In a prior post I compared fitness and the weather in Nebraska and how it is constantly changing.  How do we sort through all the fitness theories prescribed by the [...]

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