Sugar is fat. This simple relationship is revealed in this 9 part video series. You absolutely MUST watch this whole series. When sucrose and fructose enter the body the end result through various biochemical reactions actually creates new fat in the body. Featuring Dr. Robert H. Lustig, M.D. of UCSF Division of Endocrinology and Professor of Pediatrics – this lecture is not the over-simplified story of “increased calories from carbohydryates (sugar) of course makes us fat” but the actual hard science that has decoded the fructose mystery. Fructose in nature is embedded with super high levels of fiber. The industrial food companies have spent countless hours of research figuring out how to strip natural foods of this embedded relationship of sugar to fiber. Think of the sweetest food… yup -sugar cane. This plant is basically as fibrous as a stick! And don’t count on the FDA to help here – they are not getting anywhere near this. It’s up to you to educate yourself.
Dr. Lustig draws his conclusions that sugary drinks are the cause of the epidemic obesity levels in children in the US. Watch and be blown away. Fast forward part 6 if you are scientifically challenged.
I’m a big fan of the new Google Chrome browser, particularly searching without history with the “incognito browser”. The best trick this pony has is the dual split screen window with dual address bars. Writing side-by-side to my research is so much nicer (or like right now watching Louis CK on youtube on the right while writing on the left side of the page.)
Click on Chrome Plugins for code. And as an added bonus it should work on Safari too.
Being a big fan of of comfort and ergonometrics I just had to put together some of my favorite wobble stools. Unfortunately the stool I’ve used for years has been discontinued from what I guess is a quality issue – it tends to break pretty quickly if you wobble too much. I’ve been through about 5 of them myself. The Swopper is a high end version that is a bit loud design-wise but it works great.
A cheaper version that looks like it could work well is the Balance Point stool. At $199 it’s quite the bargain and when compared to an Aeron chair, which is just plain crap for your body in my opinion, you could pay 4 times as much.
I really like the design aesthetic of Michael Puryear’s wobble stool. It will definitely be my next purchase when I break my last wobble stool.
And for six simple tips on making your life ergonometrically efficient, check out the site Save Yourself.
These are two great videos that explain Structural Integration, aka Rolfing, in Dr. Ida P. Rolf’s own words. There is not much video out there featuring Dr. Rolf hersefl these days so do check these out.
