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How to Gain Weight the Healthful Way

So the other day my wife is talking to her younger brother (let’s call him Slim). All of a sudden, she hands me the phone and says, “Slim wants to know how he can eat 6,000 calories a day.” Let’s take a step back and put this in perspective. Slim is not a 300-pound, competitiveContinue reading “How to Gain Weight the Healthful Way”

Eating for Heart Health and Reducing Cardiovascular Disease Risk

In order to actively improve our health, we should be actively seeking out foods that improve our health. So, rather than follow a long list of foods to avoid, let’s think in terms of foods to include in our diet. For heart health, this tends to mean we actively include certain kinds of fats andContinue reading “Eating for Heart Health and Reducing Cardiovascular Disease Risk”

Now for something a bit different…

I recently competed in a global competition for NASPAA involving a simulation of sustainable cities. How? Why? Who is NASPAA? All valid questions that I asked myself as I checked in for the competition that morning. The short version – a professor asked for volunteers to go, myself and a friend realized it was atContinue reading “Now for something a bit different…”

Diet: The only rule is…there are no rules.

Some might call this a cliché, some call this a classic movie trope. OK, it’s definitely a cliché. At its best, it solicits the excitement, tension, and insanity of Brad Pitt delivering his speech in the sweaty basement of a bar in Fight Club. At its worst, it brings to mind a plethora of lousyContinue reading “Diet: The only rule is…there are no rules.”