Feb
03
Posted by Darren
The low carb diet movement has taken the world by storm. Nearly everyone has heard of it – who could avoid doing so? Variations of this reducing diet have been endorsed by celebrities and other popular figures. Advertisements for low carb food products and low carb recipes have been portrayed prominently in magazines and television, with the promise that you WILL lose weight even if you eat large food portions; you just have to make sure that the food you are eating has little or no carbohydrate content.
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Feb
01
Posted by Darren
Caffeine is good for you. Caffeine is bad for you. Is caffeine really an either/or proposition?
In the first place, deciding whether caffeine is good or bad is just another example of the relativism that scares so many people nowadays. Face it, we live in an increasingly standardized, one-size-fits-all world. Or at least that’s how big business, politicians and the educational system would have it. But as with most other things, your individual reaction to caffeine will vary from other people. Take tolerance to caffeine, for example. Just as there seem to be people who can sit down at a buffet and eat for an hour straight and never gain weight, there are also people who have high or low tolerances to the effects of the caffeine. While a single strong cup of java may be enough to leave one person jittery for the rest of the day, his buddy may be downing 20oz Mountain Dew bottles one after another all day long and still get to sleep by 10:00. While tolerance can vary significantly, caffeine does seem to affect children and older people more effectively.
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