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Crossfit Total (CFT) this Saturday at noon! If you’re curious about CFT here’s a little background info. Signup sheet in the lobby. Be down!

Hat tip to Lucia Hawley for showing me this video. Watch it. You won’t be sorry. The paleo lifestyle has been kicking sand in the face of the nutrition establishment and a lot of wonks out there have responded with crackpot theories about why we shouldn’t paleo. Naturally many paleo cultists have taken the bait [...]

Recently on a business trip I attended a conference held at a high-end health and fitness resort. There are numerous such resorts around the country. They offer  comprehensive programs of diet, exercise, medical testing, all in luxurious surroundings. It provided an interesting opportunity to note the differences, of which there were many, between the CrossFit [...]

Before I had a baby I really enjoyed the life of the mind. I read books. I even read books about reading books. Since baby was born I haven’t managed to finish a single book. The last time I tried, I face-planted between the leaves and woke up in a puddle of drool. Sadly, I’ve [...]

Check out this interesting article in the Star Tribune. Scientists at the University of Minnesota have had great success with smoking cessation programs designed around a “chronic disease” model of care, which involves monthly check-ins with a counselor. The “chronic disease” model is different from other smoking cessation strategies in that the counselors don’t give up [...]

Help! I’ve fallen and I can’t get up! We laugh at the LifeCall commercial because of schadenfreude. To be so decrepit that you can’t pick yourself up off the ground is not even remotely funny. We laugh so we don’t cry. And yet, most of us are not so far off from this piteous state. [...]

Rabbit Starvation is a form of malnutrition caused by a diet of lean meat. In olden times explorers and expeditioners found that eating only lean meat for extended periods can result in nausea, diarrhea, fatigue and eventually death. Rabbit Starvation happens not because protein is toxic, but because we need fat to survive. Arctic explorer [...]