I Can Make You Thin: Not an infomercial

At first I thought “I Can Make You Thin” which airs on TLC was an infomercial. Infomercials are ok, but only late at night & only for a few minutes if they are about acne treatments. It just has that infomercial feel. I think the studio audience is just there to motivate people. It’s quite […]

I can make you thin & the clean plate myth

Like so many others I was raised with the adage “waste not want not”. I never really thought about how this applied to food until Paul Mckenna brought it up on “I Can Make You Thin.” Most of us just clean the plates even after we’re full. We don’t measure our food by whether […]

Let the record stand

I use blogging to vent. I use blogging to make money. I read blogs to be informed. I’ve never thought about blogging as a way to preserve history. I guess it’s because I think of the internet as an excellent place to find platform beds, but I don’t know if it will be around in […]