Archive | June, 2007

26 June 2007

Wendy’s pushed too far

Many fast food restaurants have voluntarily chosen to provide nutritional information about their products, but a recent New York City regulation is making it difficult for them to keep doing so. Apparently having the information available through posters and pamphlets isn’t good enough any more. Calorie counts now have to be posted next to the [...]

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19 June 2007

Greer Childers: 61, mother of three, bullshit artist

If there are two things I hate, it’s people who have had way too much plastic surgery and people who take advantage of vulnerable overweight women to make money. I therefore can’t stand Greer Childers because she hasn’t had a facial expression in thirty years, and because she’s the queen of bullshit fitness infomercials. Perhaps [...]

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14 June 2007

"Healthy foods" not so healthy

Having trouble losing weight when all you do is eat the right things? Maybe it’s because the “right things” are in fact the wrong things. Beware of food items that say they are low-fat and fat-free. Although these claims are true, the problem is that the missing fat has to be replaced with something in [...]

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08 June 2007

Slow down!

My way of describing New Yorkers is that we’re always in a rush, even if we have nothing to do. This is probably most apparent in an area like Times Square, where the meandering tourists are hated for disturbing the otherwise smooth ebb and flow of the city. (A walk from the subway to the [...]

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