450 Miles in 45 Hours: My Birthday Challenge to Beat Cancer
A couple years ago, Steve Edwards gave me a bike. I don’t mean a beat up, rusty ol’ beach cruiser, but rather a high performance, decked-out Cannondale road bike. At the time, I had little more than a passing curiousity in cyc
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Usually, I save my bile for ranting here on The Nerd, but today I decided to throw down a little over at the Beachboy Blog. Here’s the skinny: In what appears to be part of the government’s continued effort to make potato
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Long time Nerd Herders out there are probably well aware of Steve Edwards, my mentor and long-time collaborator. More than anyone else, he’s the person who opened my eyes to the importance of helping others look after themse
Continue Reading | Add CommentSaturated Fat? Attack!
In the last few years, a number of “experts” have become quite vocal with the notion that saturated fat isn’t bad for you. They drive me a little nuts, to be honest, because they all fall back on the same three,
Continue Reading | Add CommentFung-Lung Chung vs. Cancer
Cruciferous vegetables, including broccoli and cauliflower, have been shown to battle cancer and now scientists have discovered the substances within them that do this. Appearing in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, the study, h
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