Advertising works, with sports & fitness near the top of industries influenced. The rise of the performance sports drink is a case study in marketing success. You can’t go anywhere in todays’ society that involves some level of physical fitness (and many that don’t….) and not notice a sea of bottles containing brilliantly colored performance sports drinks, […]
Regular readers of Rantings already know where this is going. The dogma associated with what we think is healthy in society today is clearly killing us, and it begins with plastic. Somewhere, somehow, the concept of needing to drink 8 glasses of water per day started. Maybe it was started for altruistic, but misguided reasons. […]
Intake from water from foods but not beverages, is related to lower body mass index and waist circumference in humans I have often wondered how some “health” recommendations get so blown out of proportion and become so widely accepted despite no evidence to support them, or worse–evidence to the contrary. Female HRT, dairy intake, etc…). […]
CAN PLASTIC HARM YOUR DEVELOPING BABY? The answer is really looking like a strong “yes.” Bisphenol A, or BPA, is a chemical used in making plastics that has long been known to disrupt hormones, and has recently been shown to make changes to the way genes are expressed in the offspring of exposed mothers. It’s […]
So this is not the first time I’ve brought up the toxins in our environment. However, the label of your bottled water certainly does not indicate that every case comes with a training bra, but maybe it should. Many chemicals in the environment have an estrogen-like effect. Most notable of these is plastics and compounds […]
