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Is orthorexia a real thing?

Posted on August 27, 2014

Ever heard of orthorexia? Apparently it’s when you’re obsessed with eating foods you believe to be healthy. First, I feel like “candy corn” is the plural form. (That “s” makes me uncomfortable.) Second, so you mean… picky eaters? Isn’t this isn’t this just another dietary label for people who chronically can’t balance because they don’t listen to their bodies and get caught up in some irrational goal about being a.. Read More

No calorie? No way…

Posted on August 25, 2014

Something’s gotta give with this low-cal and alleged no-cal artificial food. Usually, it’s our bowels. Sometimes it’s just the obv fact about their non-fact advertising. I mean, while stuff like this may hold true… … it still took me a bit to realize the duh factor about the lie of zero calorie claims. And make my own dietary annotations to info I was told: For example, I lived on “no.. Read More

Vice-virtue diet? Or snack sociopathy?

Posted on August 18, 2014

Gotta love a good diet article that lures you with a cliché like “size matters”. But I’ll bite. And if you just covered your chorizo when I said that, then great. We’re already doing better than the status quo. Sadly, the status quo is a big part of the problem when it comes to changing bad habits of the diet genre. Sadder still, is when science feeds into it with.. Read More

Silence of the lambs (roasted in garlic sauce and butter)

Posted on August 5, 2014

I get asked sometimes if I ever miss life before a cruelty-free diet. Yes. There are days I long for murder meals. I’d be lying if I said there weren’t. But, you may also know about my love for brain hacking – even for food time. So, sometimes when I miss my cruelty diet, I try the following: I start by walking into my kitchen with an air of terror.. Read More

Do distractions help or hurt mindful eating?

Posted on July 28, 2014

I’ve always thought it was interesting how most dogs are “self-feeders”. Don’t worry – this isn’t going to be another dog post. But what’s fascinating to me is how when it comes to their own, regular, non-human food – they’ll eat a bit and say “put a fork in me” (not literally – that would be terrifying on several levels). But if you put some leftovers from whatever you’re eating.. Read More

Science says starving is healthy.

Posted on July 27, 2014

Science says: Fasting is good for you! Well… food fasting is good for you. For like… a day. Or two. And you still to have water. And eat clean. (Close enough.) I’ve got a friend or twenty who do cleanses and fasts and coconut water fasts and… …it’s dizzying. I can’t keep up and I don’t have any warm fuzzy feeling about trading in tomatoes for dirty dishwater. They make.. Read More

Is the road to hell also paved with good deeds?

Posted on July 17, 2014

Following this diet began as a venture into sexy. That shiz got boring when it took too long. But when I started eating more natural, organic, juicy-like-a-Brazilian-butt-stuff (versus the vegan form of junk food), I went to bed with Buddha’s belly and woke up with Ghandi’s (that’s a metaphor; I’m not a spiritual Dahmer Bundy chimera. Despite popular opinion). (To be fair, he did request we body buffet him at.. Read More

Herb’s the word: last longer with old spice(s).

Posted on July 14, 2014

Did you know your old spices can save your life? Mmmyeah. No. Not that kinda old spice. I mean the neglected add-ins patiently waiting around in the back of your kitchen cabinet like sad unused toys? I sure didn’t know. But I have been unknowingly adding in at least some of the major players. Since most of my daytime diet is plain fruit and stuff, a nice warm, comforting bowl.. Read More

Broccoli cocktail: magical toxin cure?

Posted on June 27, 2014

In my land, we clutch green drinks to fit in and feign health between bad habits. Sometimes I’ll even buy a green tea soy iced latte and pretend it’s chloro-filled. But in China – it just might be saving some lives from their own air. Ya know, I didn’t realize just how badly polluted Beijing was until more recently. And having never traveled there (or anywhere foreign, really), I had.. Read More

Carb mouthwash – the new preworkout?

Posted on June 18, 2014

So you want to squeeze in a workout… but you forgot to eat. Why not get that energy burst through your taste buds instead of legal crack? A recent study aimed to see if “carbohydrate” is among the tastes we can sense – and whether merely tasting carbs can cause the same effect on our mind and body as actually eating them. As sugar and carbs translate to gas for.. Read More