INSIGHT: A Screed Against The Keto Diet
Keto is the new diet fad. It’s also possibly the worst diet fad out there because it’s not a sustainable diet (apologies to the Grapefruit Diet, which has you eating nothing but grapefruit until you …
SCAM ALERT: Healthier Patriot Remedies
Healthier Patriot advertisements pop-up in various websites. They often look like news sites, but they aren’t. They are far worse than “fake news”; they are insidious scams. Beware! Fraud is prevalent on the Internet. Scattered …
The Scary Scoop Behind the Statin Controversy
If your doctor has or, in the future, prescribes statin drugs for you, we urge you to read further. First off, we are not doctors and hold no special expertise in medicine or, more specifically, …
SCAM ALERT: PureFit Keto Diet Hoax Uncovered
If an ad for PureFit Keto supplements pops up on during a browsing session, just close the page and move on. This scam is yet another one of the weight loss pill schemes that proliferate on …
The Paleo-Pegan Diet Puzzle
Diets are like the tide: they inexorably come and they go. Like clothing fashions, diets are a la mode. A recent Google search turned up over 100 different fad diets that are regularly searched. …
COOL TIP: Where Is Your Google Data Backed Up?
You’ve accumulated years and terabytes of Gmail correspondence, calendared events, contacts and photos. So where are they backed up? “Google’s servers,” you answer. Think about it — all of this data relies upon Google having …
COOL TIP: Perfecting the Elusive Poached Egg
Why is cooking nature’s most perfect food so perfectly puzzling? It’s not you, it’s the egg. Alas, the healthiest way to prepare an egg turns out to be the most challenging. We’ve spent the better …
IN DEPTH: Should We Fear Big Brother, Big Data or Both?
Should you fear big brother or big data? Or both? Increasingly, industry observers have realized that the Internet has been taken over by giant data companies who have or will soon lose any regard for …
COOL TIP: Intermittent Fasting Intrigue
Intermittent fasting is a form of calorie restriction that has been recently popularized by a number of diets: 5:2 Diet, The Fast Diet, Leangains, Eat Stop Eat, The Warrior Diet, Alternate-Day Diet, among many. All …
Do UltraShape, CoolSculpting and Other Non-Invasive Fat Reduction Systems Work?
UltraShape is one of a number of emerging a non-invasive medical procedures that use ultrasound or thermal technologies in order to destroy fat cells in order to achieve fat reduction. Other such non-invasive procedures include Zeltiq/CoolSculpting, Bella …