"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one." –Marcus Aurelius
I’ve been temporarily living in Europe for the last few months. And two things have happened. The food is mostly bread and meat in the countries I’ve visited, leading me to miss eating vegetables. And I’ve lost about 30 pounds in 6 months. How to reconcile these two facts? The diet isn’t as ‘healthy’ according…
Some interesting studies have come out confirming that we are less male than our predecessors. The studies show that we have less testosterone than we did in the 1980s. A 20-, 40-, or 70-year-old person today has less testosterone than a person of the same age a generation ago. What happened and why should it…
A study came out recently by the University of Newcastle that said that we are eating about one credit card’s worth of plastic a week. It could be higher because the study did not measure plastic in many types of food and drink. This startling statistic immediately brings two questions to mind. Question #1 –…
The modern world has come to accept something that should have been unthinkable. Many people now believe that it is a normal part of life to struggle with weight. We accept this disease as normal despite the fact that this has only been going on in anything like the current numbers for about 40 years…
Eat Food, Not Too Much, Mostly Plants. These are the wise words of Michael Pollan. He’s got four books on food , and at least one Netflix documentary made from those books, Cooked. I’d like to use this article to summarize his message because I think it is a healthy way to approach food. What’s…
As we saw in our last article which dealt with expenses that included eating and drinking at restaurants and bars, the Groceries budget is a unique category. Why? Because this is a category that can be used to shift expenses from elsewhere as a result of your budgeting, depending on what you were doing before. Our…