How to Cleanse Yourself of Toxins

How to Cleanse Yourself of Toxins

Sing it, Britney: “Don’t you know that you’re toxic?” Toxins are bad, and must be cleansed, purged, and eradicated. Not decimated though. Decimating only reduces them by 10 percent, and that’s not enough. You need to get rid of all the bad nasty evil toxic stuff in...
How SciBabe Lost (and kept off) 90 Pounds

How SciBabe Lost (and kept off) 90 Pounds

This Guest Post is by Yvette d’Entremont, A.K.A. Science Babe www.SciBabe.com / www.Facebook.com/SciBabe Screw you, Dane Cook. My brain is geared to like certain things: Puppies, dirty jokes, and data. I’m a scientist, so I made a career out of at least one of these....
The Problem with Health at Every Size

The Problem with Health at Every Size

Image source. There is a difference between coddling and compassion. Approximately one-third of the North American population is obese, and a significant number of them are suffering as a result. One of the things they suffer from is fat shaming, which, as I pointed...
The Difference Between Inspiring and Shaming

The Difference Between Inspiring and Shaming

You are a singularly unique individual. Just like everyone else. I don’t dig this whole special snowflake syndrome where everyone needs to be handled with kid gloves. Some people are awesome, and others just suck. If you go through life thinking the world owes you...
Why I Love to Run

Why I Love to Run

Okay, I know it doesn’t really look like I’m loving it in that photo, but it was during my Boston Marathon qualifying run, which felt like my entire body was getting a root canal. Extreme endurance races notwithstanding, I dig being rapidly bipedal, and...
Fuck Dark Chocolate

Fuck Dark Chocolate

Fuck dark chocolate. For about a decade the sales of dark chocolate have been soaring, regardless of the fact that it tastes like someone melted down a bunch of brown crayons then let them solidify into bar form. Why the boost? A senior VP from Hershey said in 2006 of...