Weekend Roundup - Sunday Dedication Edition

For the first time in my life, I went to Sunday church services. Actually, this is the first time in my life that I’ve been to any church services. Now before you have a heart attack mom, I’m still Jewish. However, my wife and I went to the dedication of our month old nephew today. It was a very pretty ceremony. Congratulation to my wife’s sister and her husband on a beautiful baby boy.

And on that happy note, here are some articles I thought you mind find helpful and/or interesting:

From Reuters we have this article debunking some of the myths around water consumption. Turns out, drinking a lot of water may not be the detoxifier some people have claimed it was. Now, don’t go crazy here and stop drinking water altogether. The article simply states that the old myth of 8 cups of water a day may be a bit overdone. Just drink when you’re thirsty and make sure you hydrate while exercising and you should be fine.
@Reuters

This article isn’t directly health related but it’s an interesting read nonetheless. Take a look at some of the details the articles discusses about the connections between big tobacco and health research. Unfortunately, many of the health researchers you trust may be paid by industries like tobacco, beef, farmers and others who don’t have your best interests in mind. Next time you read some research that sounds too good to be true, take a look at who’s funding the study. You might want to rethink what you just read.
@The Boston Globe

Michael Pollan is one of my favorite authors. I highly recommend his books, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals and In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, and plan to review them at some point on 60 in 3. So I really liked this interview of Mr. Pollan in the Times Online. For people like me who want to balance taking care of our bodies with taking care of the world around us, he has a lot of useful information. Unfortunately, what’s best for us is not always best for the environment and it’s a tough balancing act sometimes.
@The Times Online

There’s nothing too new in this article from the Los Angeles Chronicle about how to control your weight, but it’s well written and has some good points that can never be repeated too often. If you’re really serious about getting fit, have a plan. Come up with goals, write them down and then figure out how you’re going to achieve them. Anything else is almost certain to end in failure.
@Los Angeles Chronicle

And in a bit of random trivia and you may or may not like, here’s a chart showing who really owns the big “organic” food companies in the US. It’s interesting to see that almost all the names we associate with healthy products are actually owned but the companies we associate with mass market junk food. Remember that next time you’re in the supermarket. It’s why I usually try to shop for my food at places like a farmers’ market or a local produce store that deals directly with local farmers and growers.
@Good Magazine

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