Food

Let’s Have Dinner

Back in the far gone days of my youth, I was given an assignment by an English teacher which I still remember to this day. We were asked to write about the 3 people we would invite to dinner if we could invite anyone who ever lived. While I don’t remember who I chose to write about at the time, I am going to give it a shot now. The…

Fast Food Workers Hate Me

I recently took a trip to the nation’s capital, a place known to some as “The District”; a place where they proudly display on their license plates the slogan “Taxation Without Representation”. As is typical for a trip to a far off land, I stayed in a hotel and ate every meal in a myriad of fast food joints, slummy diners, and average restaurants. For 4 straight days I got…

The Challenge

Can an ordinary guy compete with professionals at a not so ordinary level? That is the challenge I have put myself to for the month of April 2010. I intend to compete with professionals in a mountain bike race at the end of the month. Why would I inflict this pain upon myself? Because I want to. I want to prove…

Obesity Is Communicable

* Much thanks to S.A. for sending me the article and the idea. Have a topic idea? Let me know.

According to a July 2007 article in “The New England Journal of Medicine” titled The Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network Over 32 Years, obesity is communicable, meaning you might gain weight if you spend time with people who are obese. For the sake of…

One Day To Eat It All

In the pursuit of athletic glory (Mountain bike racing), I have adopted a fairly strict diet and exercise program. The diet requires that I limit calorie intake and only eat certain kinds of food (Protein, vegetables, beans) 6 days a week. One day a week the diet allows me to eat as much of  whatever I want. The reasoning behind this says that extended periods of low caloric…