“Keep a diary or journal. Record your reflections on your life experience in a journal. You will find this simple practice to be invaluable in your quest for wisdom.” Warren Bennis (March 8, 1925 – July 31, 2014) was the distinguished professor of business administration and founding chairman of the Leadership Institute at the University […]
Monday I restarted a food diary. The recollection of my indiscipline over the past several months plus a recent online article on this topic reminded me of the effectiveness of writing down what you eat especially if you want to lose weight or maintain what was lost. Put simply I’ve been bad. Time once again […]
Journaling, it seems, is one of the most successful strategies for achieving long-term weight loss.[3-4] It increases a person’s awareness of what they’re eating and helps to unveil habits and patterns of eating. A Kaiser Permanente study with 1,700 participants found that those who kept food diaries six days a week lost twice as much […]
Female participants who consumed an avocado a day as part of their meal had a reduction in visceral abdominal fat — the hard-to-target fat associated with higher risk — and experienced a reduction in the ratio of visceral fat to subcutaneous fat, indicating a redistribution of fat away from the organs. However, fat distribution in […]
With food inflation absolutely skyrocketing I decided to write a post about finding bargains. Yes, bargains in the grocery store. A little while ago I boasted about finding a dozen eggs for $0.89 and wrote Egg Salad (because you will be eating more eggs). Well eggs in my part of the world are no longer this […]
I guess another reason to wear a mask when around people.
One of the studies I came across was very small involving three families in a restaurant in China.
When the researchers looked at who got infected the patrons were at three different tables in the path of the airflow from the HVAC system. Let’s just say any barrier is better than no barrier.
What about people living in places like Brooklyn with these huge multi story apartment complexes all close together? I’ve seen pictures of what looks to be a whole block of buildings 4 x 4 of buildings maybe 16 of them, each probably housing hundreds of people. Wouldn’t they have a shared ventilation system? The big cities have such a huge density of people. The more affluent ones can flee to the Hamptons or Florida. But the middle and lower classes are stuck.
The rich get richer and the poor get the blame.