Andrew’s Blog

Don’t Recycle!

You are sticking to your diet to lose weight, but the scale won't budge. You are following a training plan, but you're constantly getting injured. You are making good money...
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Budweiser Tumors

Alcohol is eventually broken down into acetate in the body. Acetate inhibits lipolysis, or fat burning. Can you say beer belly? I knew you could.
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Obvious conclusion

The brain uses 80% of the available blood sugar any time a person is cognitively engaged. I think there are a lot of starving cerebrums out there...
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Recommended Destroy your vitality Allowance

Everyone's concerned about fat grams in a food. No one cares about the man-made chemicals in what we eat. What's your RDA for carcinogens?
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Dear Cancer

If you or other people you know would like to submit letters, Varian will donate $50 to the American Cancer Society. And, yes, I'll admit I think a better strategy...
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Keeping it real

"The greatest wisdom is in simplicity. Love, respect, tolerance, sharing, gratitude, forgiveness. It's not complex or elaborate. The real knowledge is free. It's encoded in your DNA. All you need...
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Ironman Lake Placid 2007

Ironman Lake Placid 2007 Triathlon is a contact sport. That fact got punched or kicked or elbowed into my head 100m into the first lap of the Ironman swim. My...
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Hawaii Ironman 2006

2006 HAWAII IRONMAN RACE REPORT (This is going to be a long one, so I won’t be offended if you skim it) The earthquake is probably a good place to...
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