I am "home" in Cambodia! The flight was ridiculously long. I arrived in Phnom Penh at about 10pm on Monday night. On Tuesday my dad took me out on a tuk tuk and showed me the Independence Monument, the Silver Pagoda, and the Russian Market. Tuk tuk The Independence Monument…
Last month's poll The question that 58 of us answered was: what is your biggest issue when it comes to eating? This was a toughie because you could only pick one answer; we were identifying our major vice. However, I think that many of us would say that we fall…
Giveaway Winners Congratulations to the winners of the Sinupret for Kids medication and The Healthiest Kid in the Neighborhood book: MizFit bhealthier Charlotte Sharon Mary Healthy Ashley Marta Kim V Shannon Katy Stuffgirlswant Fitness Surfer Sharon Fairclough Blake Mishia E-mail me your mailing address at sagan.morrow@gmail.com and I will ensure…
Lately I have received quite a few emails from people letting me know about websites/articles that they think I would be interested in. With the craziness of studying for my final exam and getting ready for Cambodia (I leave on Sunday!), I figure that this is the perfect time to…
Defined as the opposite of fast food (because everything is binaries and opposition!), slow food is a lifestyle of eating real, wholesome, natural foods, with an emphasis on getting involved in the preparation and production of the food so that when we eat, it is a shared communal experience and…
When I was initially approached with the idea of checking out a child's medication and a book about how to get the whole family to eat right, I was reluctant to do the review. After all, I'm neither a child nor a parent, and as I've made clear many times,…
It's one of the most well-known stereotypes of Canadians: we're polite. We apologize. We're doormats. What can I say? There is, to some extent, a ring of truth to the stereotype. At aikido last night, sensei was telling me about the issues that the older students had when they first…
We don't move enough. And moving, even just a small amount each day, can drastically improve and enhance our lives. This is the basic premise of science writer Jorg Blech's book, Healing through Exercise: Scientifically-proven ways to prevent and overcome illness and lengthen your life", which I recently received from…
Like Erin at Fit Bottomed Girls, I have a frustrating problem with ear buds: without fail, they always fall out of my ears. Maybe I have abnormally shaped ears, but for some reason, those little guys just never want to stay put. It's for this reason that I generally don't…
Sego Diet Drink From what I gather, Sego was a diet drink that was popular in the 1960's. I've recently come across some of their ads, and being incredibly intrigued by the visual rhetoric of it all, I knew I just had to share some of these ads with all…
