I wanted to write a short snippet about Vitamin A as the RDA has noted upper limit values for it (10,000 IU), but that is easily exceeded simply by eating a sufficient quantity of spinach (5.5 oz is over 10,000 IU). In order to be below that value, I would have had to remove spinach… Read More Vitamin A – Plant versus Animal

After I began this site, I discovered CRON-O-Meter can be used to calculate food, exercise and weight in conjunction with nutritional and caloric values. Here’s a glimpse of what filling out this section can look like for a user who signs up for the free site:

When getting serious about health improvement, there are several gadgets that can help with tracking various components such as BMI, heart rate, weight, calories burned and so on. This post will serve as a listing of some useful gadgets that I may end up purchasing to help with tracking my health better. Watch / Fitness… Read More Handy Gadgets

References Cold Temperature and Life Span: It’s not about the rate of living Wikipedia – Rate of Living Theory TRPA-1 and Wasabi DAF-16 and Longevity Discussion Studies into cold temperature for both cold and warm blooded animals indicates that both appear to live longer under such duress situations, challenging the rate of living theory that… Read More Cold Temperature Longevity

There’s a really good TED talk by Jamie Oliver entitled “Teach every child about food“. His supposition in this presentation revolves around the idea that not knowing how to cook or make food for yourself (a very basic human requirement) is progressively causing each generation of children to live less time than their parents starting with… Read More Living Longer Than Our Parents

Note: The dosage levels mentioned in this post are for a female aged 44. Please see the values for vitamins, minerals and nutrients at the following locations for your gender and age: NIH DRI IOM RDAs If you’ve read any of my Daily Logs, then you’ll see the following nutrition supplements noted for each day: Cod… Read More My Nutrition Supplements Story

These are the foods that I can eat daily: Cheese, Cream, Laughing Cow (4 wedges) Cheese, Other, Hard (such as Smoked Gouda, Havarti, Ementaler, etc.) (3 oz) Cheese, Romano, grated (1 tbsp) Cream, Heavy Whipping (2-4 tbsp) Cream, Sour (1-2 tbsp) Coconut Oil (1sp), Ghee (1 tsp), or Olive Oil (1 tbsp) Almonds, raw (1… Read More Acceptable Foods List