I promise I am not affiliated with Freakonomics in any way. But they had another podcast recently about health and nutrition that I found very interesting. It was the antithesis of Super Size Me and fits within my philosophy pretty well, too. The podcast, titled “The Cheeseburger Diet”, follows the story of a women who …
My apologies for my 2 week+ hiatus. I was traveling Thanksgiving week, and the week after was oddly a train wreck at my house. I hope you had a holiday that was delicious. Mine was. Freakonomics published an extremely interesting podcast about food a few weeks ago. I highly recommend you listen to it if …
I’ve mentioned before that I don’t really enjoy running. I enjoy the way I feel after I run and the feeling of accomplishing something, but I don’t get pleasure out of actually pounding my feet to the pavement. I also hate cleaning my house. I clean on Mondays, since it is already a kind of …
A recent Freakonomics radio episode discussed the importance of incentives for people to make healthier eating choices. Studies indicate that educating people on the benefits of healthy eating is not enough; an incentive or “bribe” is necessary for actually making a change. With my limited financial resources, I cannot bribe any of you to make …
