Nominated in 2010 in the Best Documentary category for an Academy Award, “Food, Inc.” ruffled a few feathers in the food industry it examined. Sure, the agriculture-manufacturer-retail complex (largely, Monsanto and Walmart, with over-leveraged farmers in the middle) bears little resemblance to the farmer-consumer relationship of the past. And the type of nutrition that typifies the American diet, heavily-laden with high fructose corn syrup, is likely responsible for skyrocketing obesity and diabetes rates. But consumers can fight back, and the industry feeding them will respond. I wrote this review for client HairLoss.com from my perspective as a nutrition writer and former communicator for both The NutraSweet Company (Monsanto) and McDonald’s Corporation’s public relations firm.
It takes six pounds of plant protein to produce a pound of beef. If you know nothing else, that fact helps drive home the central message on the environmental cost of Western-style diets now being adopted in developing nations that include China, India and Brazil – following Americans’ 33 percent increase in consumption of animal protein since 1960. This article for Hairloss.com reviews the global as well as personal reasons for adopting a diet that leans much more toward plant foods and away from animal sources of protein. It doesn’t mean we all have to turn vegetarian – it’s all a matter of proportions.
Ignore everything you’ve ever heard or seen on television exercise product infomercials: to be strong and fit takes time, effort and variation. But still, there are techniques that can speed things up. One is eccentric movements – a.k.a., “negatives” – that portion of any weight-resistance exercise that we typically think of as the easy part. For example, after pressing a weight overhead, it’s the drop-down half of the exercise. If you go super slow on that portion, you significantly increase the muscle-building benefit. I explain it in detail in an article on HairLoss.com, where I am the fitness and nutrition section editor.
Chronic tendonitis in forearms and wrists, tibia (shin), plantar (foot arch) and elsewhere is often a sign of development imbalance. Find that balance and get back into form by understanding how it works and following some simple tricks of exercise via this article I wrote for HairLoss.com.
In development since January 2009, HairLoss.com launched last week with about a dozen of the articles I’ve written for this site. I am the health, fitness and nutrition section writer, with five articles each month on ways to proactively approach wellbeing; each article touches on the relationship between healthy living and alopecia, which includes male pattern baldness as well as other conditions of hair loss in men and women. My profile page is here, and the article currently drawing the most traffic is on yoga for men, a topic near and dear to my lower back.