Drink tea, hold the milk? »
Revered by the British, a cup of tea is essentially their national dish**. Introduced from India a few hundred years ago, it took off in a big way. And while coffee tends to be more the drink of choice in this writer’s region, the US has a ton of regular tea drinkers. The health benefits [...]
Amid Fiery Tempest, McGwire’s Rhetoric Boils Down to Protecting the MLB System »
Mark McGwire will no longer discuss his use of anabolic steroids and human growth hormone in baseball, so says a spokesperson for the St. Louis Cardinals, according to www.sportingnews.com. And I say, Thank God. In my 50 years as a Missourian, I cannot recall a public persona capable of tainting this state like McGwire has [...]
Eat Slow, Eat Less, Feel Fuller »
For most people, this really shouldn’t be something too radical, but latest research coming out of Athens, Greece states that if you eat slower then hunger-inhibiting hormones have a more pronounced effect. Or, in a nutshell, re-read the title of this article. The researchers already know of a correlation between obesity and the rate at [...]
Mark McGwire comes clean about being dirty. »
This doesn’t come as a big surprise to anyone in the steroid industry but it’s certainly something to write about. I think its interesting that McGwire is willing to talk about his steroid use now (that he is getting a job back in baseball), seemingly after the statute of limitations would have run out for [...]
2008 tax records for the National Physique Committee, Jim Manion’s salary, etc… »
While I realize that non-profit Organizations do earn money, I’m at a loss to explain how the NPC (National Physique Committee) legitimately meets many of the requirements to be treated as such legally. Still, as they are registered as an NPO, their financial records are subject to public disclosure. Form 990, the one I’ve published [...]
The first UK GBL death »
The Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine has released a report of the first UK death from the Gamma Hydroxybutyrate (GHB) precursor Gamma Butyrolactone (GBL) on the same day it became a scheduled substance in the country. In 2008 a 25-year old man died after taking the drug while in a night club. There [...]
