I got this goofy new puppy the other day and everything I’m reading insists that she’s gonna love some bacon and cottage cheese in her food. Clearly a girl after my own heart. I had a good amount of back fat just sitting pretty in my freezer so I thought I’d render my fluffy lady [...]
Category Archives: Health
Interval Training in the NYT
Seattle Doug (the other Seattle Doug) has been pushing me hard on this Interval Training notion as of late. And Matt’s been experimenting with it as well. But the program Matt posted a few weeks ago was too brain bending and turned me off to trying it. However, this set proposed in this NYT article [...]
It was 68 Years Ago Today
Bicycles are great for so many things. These low impact, meandering expressions of self-sustainability are not only the most elegant way to travel between destinations – offering exercise and a mercurial posture – they also offer a chance to see the fast-forward world with slow-frame-advance eyes. The mere act of riding a bike seems subversive, [...]
U.S. Meat Contaminated with Resistant Bacteria
In more, isn’t the world sick of being a bummer all the time news: Meat in the U.S. may be widely contaminated with strains of drug-resistant bacteria, researchers reported Friday. Nearly half of all meat and poultry sampled in a new study contained drug-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus, the type of bacteria that most commonly [...]
Bicycle Maintenance Made Easy
Although some of you really brain damaged sods might have been riding through this god-awfully cold and long winter, there are other, less brazen folks who have been relying on public transportation for the past few months. Either way your bike probably needs a little TLC to get it ready for spring riding. Here are [...]
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Interval Training for The Treadmill
As this detox has progressed and my fitness level has improved I’ve been interested in ways to intensify my workouts. All signs seem to point to interval training as the current craze. Generally, I’m not very interested in exercise fads, unless of course you count Jazzercise or Tony Little’s Ab Isolator, but interval training seems [...]
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Chicago Honey Co-op
A few weeks ago my wife was coming down ill with a seasonal bug. Her mom suggested that an old folk remedy was to eat several tablespoons of locally sourced honey in water with some cinammon, the idea being that bees are carriers of many local microorganisms and pollens and can help boost one’s immunity [...]
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Yoga for Bicyclists @ Moksha 10am May 21st
This is a bit advanced notice, but our friend Kathleen Ellis is running a beginner’s yoga class designed especially with the cyclist in mind. Expect work on leg and lower back strengthening with some focus on parts otherwise neglected by our two-wheeled friends as well as some energetic work for that special kind of the [...]
I Found Mangosteen In Chicago
I posted the other day about the Grand Vatican Wizard’s penchant for Tiger Blood and that I was going to try and find it around Chicago. The stuff Charlie is drinking is Xango and it’s available on the intertubes for about $35 a bottle. In short, you’ve got to be either stupid rich or just [...]
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Fasting, Veggie Sausages, Saltimbocca & Your Eternal Salvation
As Matty mentioned yesterday, one of the best coping devices to use while sludging through the long decay of a month long detox is to think, intensely, about the foods you will indulge your face and body upon once you’ve managed to scratch that last bloody hash mark into the cell wall of your fast. [...]
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