My journey through the Medicare jungle- advice for those ready to sign up
I recently turned age 65, which made me eligible for government health insurance for the first time in my life. I've been paying into...
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Dan Connors
- Dec 1, 2021
- 4 min
Dopesick- Hulu's maddening, sad miniseries on the opioid crisis.
Watch the trailer above to get some idea what this miniseries was about, and watch all episodes if you can. It will make you both mad...
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Dan Connors
- Oct 3, 2020
- 4 min
Covid Mental Health Challenge #2- My depression story
In any mental health journey, the discussion turns to stories. Everybody has a story, especially of when they realized they had mental...
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Dan Connors
- Sep 26, 2020
- 3 min
Mental health and why weight problems start with your thoughts.
All of the weight loss programs out there are useless without one basic thing- mental health. Losing weight, or making any major change...
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Dan Connors
- Sep 24, 2020
- 5 min
Fasting- can literally starving yourself break the obesity code?
The Complete Guide to Fasting: Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day, and Extended Fasting- Jason Fung (2016) The Obesity...
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Dan Connors
- Sep 23, 2020
- 4 min
Take the chicken test- or are ya chicken?
Chicken is one of the most popular foods there is. It's great for the fast-food giants like KFC, Popeyes, and Chick-Fil-A. It's a...
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Dan Connors
- Sep 22, 2020
- 5 min
The $71 Billion dollar photo and the diet industry
Every year on January 1, Americans of a certain girth make new year's resolutions to take off some of the extra pounds they carried the...
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Dan Connors
- Sep 20, 2020
- 4 min
Drugs, side effects, and weight gain
So far on this journey I've presented that what you eat has a huge impact on your health and your weight. Watching both portions and...
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Dan Connors
- Sep 17, 2020
- 4 min
Test your egg knowledge with this little quiz.
Which came first? ___ The chicken ___ The egg 2. Which eggs are healthiest to eat? ___ White eggs ___ Brown eggs ___ Both...
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Dan Connors
- Sep 16, 2020
- 4 min
Cell phones and apps- nutrition tech could save us all.
Back in the old days, if you wanted to keep track of your weight or eating, all you had available was a scale and a piece of paper. Now...
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Dan Connors
- Sep 13, 2020
- 4 min
You can't work off those double cheeseburgers at the gym!
Regular physical exercise is essential to both physical and mental health. It helps to strengthen the heart and lungs, increases your...
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Dan Connors
- Sep 11, 2020
- 5 min
Potatoes, taters, spuds and yams
Without the potato, I wouldn't be here today, nor would many other Irish descendants. This little starchy tuber has become one of the...
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Dan Connors
- Sep 3, 2020
- 5 min
It's 3 AM. Want a cookie? You know you do...
Have you ever gotten that feeling that you have to eat something naughty right away? This isn't the hunger you feel if you haven't eaten...
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Dan Connors
- Sep 1, 2020
- 5 min
Goals, goal setting, and still enjoying the now.
So today is the last day of my original weight loss challenge. I lost nearly 5% of my body weight in 30 days, which is a pretty good...
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Dan Connors
- Aug 31, 2020
- 6 min
How Not to Die
How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease Michael Greger with Gene Stone This book is...
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