Category: Health

  • Health and Fitness Information – What is it Good For?

    Health and Fitness Information – What is it Good For?

    Why do you suppose anyone reads about health and fitness? My guess is that they want to improve both their health and fitness (kind of obvious I know) But there has to be a point where you simply cannot continue to make measurable improvements…or at least there will be a point where more information, more…

  • What If Food Didn’t Affect Weight or Health?

    What If Food Didn’t Affect Weight or Health?

    Simple mental exercise for you today. What would you eat if you knew the food choices you made wouldn’t adversely affect your weight or your health? I’ll start: I would eat just about everything I am currently eating. John

  • How Much Exercise Per Week is Necessary

    How Much Exercise Per Week is Necessary

    Manny and Anthony got this discussion going yesterday and I think it needs further exploration…and that is how much exercise should we be doing per week? There are a few ways to approach the answer to this question. The first thing to do is identify your goal. Is it to do the least amount of…

  • Detox and Cleansing – 100% Scam

    Detox and Cleansing – 100% Scam

    As some of you know I had food poisoning a few days ago and I’m still not quite out of the woods. Head still isn’t right, and bagels and soup are the extent of what I can eat. This brings up an interesting point about detox diets and supplements. Specifically that there is no such…

  • Fitness vs Fatness…A false Dichotomy

    Fitness vs Fatness…A false Dichotomy

    In yesterdays discussion the common logical fallacy was brought up about the false dichotomy between “fitness” and “fatness”. This is a false dichotomy because ‘fitness’ is not the opposite of ‘fatness’…not always. To start off we have to define the logical fallacy “false dichotomy” A false dichotomy is an erroneous reduction of many possibilities down…