Category: Health

  • Healthy Eating: Not What You Thought

    Healthy Eating: Not What You Thought

    The FDA regulates the use of the words healthy and healthful with respect to diet. This represents a bit of a problem and that is: The words healthy and healthful must first be defined in order to regulate their use. The FDA in it’s infinite wisdom (note the sarcasm) has resorted to regulating the exact…

  • How it All Fits Together – Phi Life is Live

    How it All Fits Together – Phi Life is Live

    Brad Pilon and I have started a new podcast called Phi Life. You can find it every Wednesday from now on at www.phi-life.com This is our weekly take on all things related to health and how it fits into your life, and how all the parts of your life will add up to your overall…

  • Need Health Information – Newspaper is the Last Place to look

    Need Health Information – Newspaper is the Last Place to look

    I saw a recent headline in the newspaper suggesting the flu shot caused a rare neurological syndrome in a patient. The headline said “Flu Shot Hell” and there was a miserable picture of a woman with an eye patch on. The headline and the picture would have you believe that she assuredly got this problem from the…

  • Diet and Exercise – As Simple As Possible…but not Simpler

    Diet and Exercise – As Simple As Possible…but not Simpler

    If you knew exactly how long you were going to live and had no choice to change it, would you still follow a ‘healthy’ lifestyle? After all, what is the point of health foods, healthy lifestyle choices, exercising, dieting anyway? If you engage in any of this you must have some sort of end game…

  • Change Your Life To Change Your Body

    Change Your Life To Change Your Body

    Albert Einstein has been attributed with defining “Insanity” as the following: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. I feel like this is what most people are doing in the gym and with their diets on a regular basis. It truly is insane to expect a noticeable change in your body…