Live Long and Strong

What’s Making Us Fat and Sick?

Is sugar evil? Here I examine why sugar and other high glycemic carbohydrates have been eviscerated, and examine if this is deserved. A nation now eating 20+ times the amount of sugar than in the late 19th century, with a concomitant spike in obesity, needs to know the truth.

How To Sculpt Your Body Like Schwarzenegger

See something in the mirror you’d like to change? First dissociate “you” from “it”. Then use this hourly, once-a-week body weight technique to get the look you want.

Practice Your Fears With Tim Ferriss

Tim Ferriss, best-selling author of The 4-Hour Workweek and The 4-Hour Body presents a good case for focusing on your fears before your desires to a Google audience.

Tim Ferriss Underwhelms Barbara Walters With His “Four Hour Body”

Barbara Walters gives Tim Ferriss some combination of a cold shoulder and dismissive comments in this video as he attempts to summarize his book, The Four Hour Body.

Ray Kurzweil’s 100+ Pills per Day Age Defying Fight

Here’s a quick video interview with futurist, author, inventor and overall brainiac, Ray Kurzweil about what he does, to (hopefully) live a much longer life. Watch the video.

What A 50-Year Old VW Can Tell You About Your Lifespan

Few of us are lucky to have been born Mercedes Diesels, famous for their long lifespan. Instead, most of us are more like VW Beetles, where how we choose to drive our life — our lifestyle habits — will eventually overwhelm our body’s gearbox, engine and transmission, sorta speak. Don’t worry — plants to the rescue, say anti-aging researchers.

Was Abe Lincoln Prescient?

Abe Lincoln: “In see in the near future… Corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow…

Happy Independence Day in Sausalito

The tradition continues. Another zany 4th of July Parade in the little hamlet just north of San Francisco. That would be Sausalito, my home since college, which I finished sometime in the last century. Check out the pics.

What’s The Only Definition Of Success That Matters?

Many people have elaborate images of what success is, of what it would take to become successful, or appear that way to others. But Jeff Haden in The Only Definition of Success That Matters dives down to the bottom line, the basic component that every ideal of success must have.

The Supersizers: “The Men Who Made Us Fat”, Episode 2 of 3

This is the Episode that all parents need to watch, for although supersizing has made us dangerously overweight, the new generation may be the first with a lower life expectancy than their parents. Consumption taxes may be on the way, but – surprise – the food industry is fighting back.