Tag: Data
Carbs are getting in the way of healthy eating
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Canadians heeded the exhortation to reduce fat and reduced their fat intake to 31 per cent by 2004. But during this time, obesity rates spiked, which suggests that dietary fat is not a “primary contributing factor” in obesity, said the report. I got healthy (and lost 45 pounds in the last 8 months) but not…
So…Cold-fX is BS
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“The study actually showed the placebo to be more effective at relieving (some) cold symptoms than Cold-fX.” In something surely nobody could have seen coming, it looks like there’s a non-zero chance anybody who purchased Cold-fX as a cold or flu remedy could be able to join a class-action suit in order to get some…
The Internet’s Gatekeepers can do better (January 18)
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Another internet company took an unlimited plan and added asterisks to it. This time, it’s Karma Mobility. We made a mistake. We modeled Neverstop usage to be much higher than usage on Refuel. But we never anticipated that some customers would use over 1,000GB a month. They aren’t the first company to choose to throttle…
Losing Weight, When You’re Lazy (January 13)
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“Play to your strengths” is the advice given to Harry Potter during the Triwizard Tournament, and it’s invaluable insight is applicable not just to facing dragons in a magical school. When I set out to improve my health last summer, I knew it would take more than some kind of amazing burst of willpower. I…
I Still Hate Facebook
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I have written a LOT ragging on the various things I hate about Facebook, and though some of my concerns have been addressed over the years, there is still a lot I just really don’t like about the social network. Today, I’m going to detail what has always been one of my biggest nuisances with…
Milestones! Gains! Losses!
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That’s a lot of views (I’m just one man)! It’s been far too long since I last wrote something on here, and given that a whole heck of a lot has happened in the last month! First up, around the time of the writing of this post, my blog is going to pass another base…
Weight Loss (How I Am Breaking The Pattern)
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One of my favourite things to do is open up and talk about things that are going on in my life. If you want to hear about me in more detail, I convinced my co-hosts on Ottawhat? to let me talk about myself for an hour this week (listen here). But that’s not what today…
Adventures in Podcasting with SoundCloud (Volume I)
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.code { text-align: left; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1; } I’ve been podcasting and building my website for a couple of years now, and I thought it would be useful to some people if I talked about some of the things I’ve gone through in getting my site up and running that I couldn’t find anywhere…
Voicemail, Feedback, Future Chat and Ottawhat? (April 15-21)
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Lots going on at Unwind Media this week! I also finally closed down robattrell.com and moved that site over to this blog (which means that I now get a bunch of spam traffic here :(. I also FINALLY updated my voicemail message, which I also put online for your listening pleasure. In case it wasn’t…
Future Chat #47 – That Unfortunate Looking Car
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#47 – That Unfortunate Looking Car http://t.co/D76U3OJqnK #futurechat #science #tech #mercedes — Future Chat (@FutureChats) February 3, 2015