Selling Soda

Mark Bittman raised some great points in his piece in the Times yesterday, in which he discussed celebrities lending their likenesses to soft drink companies to endorse their products. Money talks, of course, but at whose expense? If you’re already a multi-millionaire and you claim to be interested in supporting the First Lady’s “Let’s Move” […]

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A Gym for Those Who Don’t Like Gyms

Something caught my eye the other day.  It was an ad for a gym which read that “members wouldn’t experience ‘gymtimidation’ from muscle bound brutes”. This piqued my interest; after having been a private fitness trainer for nearly eighteen years, I think I may have heard every excuse in the book for why one wouldn’t […]

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A Dispute Over “No Crash” Post Energy Drink

Interesting.   According to an article in the Times, the claim that the 5-hour Energy Shot brand had about its product not causing a ‘crash’ (the ‘letdown that consumers often feel when an energy drink’s beverage wears off’) is being disputed. Whether or not there is a post-consumption crash, in my opinion, is not the […]

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