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Mark Schauss: Russian Rulers Podcast Blogsite

A Blog You Need To Read

April 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

Robert Crayhon, my friend, co-worker and nutritionist extraordinaire posted an important blog today that people need to read. He talks about the absurdity of the food pyramid, put out by the USDA. He tells it like it is as usual. His blog is one you need to read every once in a while.

Tags: Food and Eating · Health · Medical Research · Obesity · Opinion

Buying Bottled Water in a Restaurant – Snobbery or Just Bad Idea?

March 4th, 2008 · No Comments

The United Kingdom’s Consumer Council for Water, launched a campaign to try to get restaurants to stop pushing bottled water to customers. The main reason is the transport of said water accounts for 32 kilotonnes of carbon dioxide emissions per year in the UK alone (probably ten times that amount in the United States). Yve [...]

Tags: Environment · Opinion

Obesity Caused By Over Eating? Not So Fast.

February 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Coming out soon is a book that Gary Taubes, a New York City journalist has written called The Diet Delusion by Vermilion. In it he writes that obesity is not simply eating too many calories but the abnormal effect on ones hormones. Taube wrote in the recent New Scientist magazine (January 19-25th, 2008) that “There is [...]

Tags: Disease · Food and Eating · Health · Obesity

Health Care Reform – Reform Ourselves First

October 2nd, 2007 · No Comments

We continue to hear politicians running for President yap about health care reform and how our system is broken and doesn’t help millions of Americans which, on the surface is true, but they refuse to acknowledge another real dillema and that is the need for tens of millions of Americans to reform themselves first. The [...]

Tags: Controversial Issues · Food and Eating · Health · Obesity · Opinion · Politics

Vegetarians Need More Protein

October 1st, 2007 · No Comments

In an interesting article on CNN.com, reporter Judy Fortin talks about how vegetarians need to watch and adjust their protein intake regularly or they run the risk of protein deficiencies.  Over the past 20 years, I have been able to view the laboratory test results of a number of vegetarians and rarely do I find [...]

Tags: Food and Eating · Health · Medical Research · Opinion

Funny Cartoon About Nutrition

September 26th, 2007 · No Comments

Here is an interesting little video about nutrition from youtube called Punk da Junk: A Journey of Epic Nutrition.
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Tags: Food and Eating · Health