The Better Cheaper Slower Gift Guide
Save time and money. Preserve peace of mind. Online shopping for those Better Cheaper eating and exercising gifts that bring happy, healthy New Years.
Roasted Pear-Maple Syrup Pudding Cake
Just in case its name doesn't say it all, let me tell you how thoroughly delicious this really is. Perfectly pure pear flavor, intensified by quick roasting. The deeply dark version of sweet from pure maple syrup. Big, mouth-filling flavor. Amazingly light but luxurious and rich.
Mexican-Italian Pizza
A crisp-soft-firm-gooey "pizza" with all the flavors. Sweet, tart, nutty, earthy, creamy, mildly spicy. Wildly aromatic. 14 ounces of a great thing with just 310 calories and a Glycemic Load of 14. Gluten-free. This is a great meal.
Slower Sunday: Gone with the wind
November 3, 2013. The slowest form of transportation on the planet. On a Slower Sunday. A good day to get through without cars or trains or planes. Go catch some. A perfect pursuit for a Sunday. Press Play.
Better Cheaper Slimmer: One Day
Let's eat! Well. All day. Here are three days of meal options that add up to three very low-glycemic, low-calorie days. All delicious. Total satisfaction, no deprivation. Glycemic loads that don't add belly fat to your waistline.
The Veg-O-Matic of All Stretch Exercises
It doesn't slice or dice. But it stretches, it strengthens, it balances and gets you off your butt. It's the Quadriceps Stretch. Multi-tasking on one foot. Cost-Benefit Analysis: a lot of benefits for a minute of your time.
Stronger Monday: C’mon. Over your head.
It's good to be a little stronger. So it's easier to climb a steep stairway. Or a mountain. Easier to pick up packages. And put them up on a shelf - above your head. As you get older, you inevitably lose some muscle mass. But you don't have to lose muscle strength. Here's another Way to increase and maintain it.
Vanishing point
You walk up 7 flights of stairs. In a parking garage in lower Manhattan. Not a big elevation gain. Not a very scenic hike. But when you walk out on to the roof, you're in a forest of giant light beams. Press Play for the perspective.
Feet, Shoes, and Hiking: A Short History
I should be sore. But I'm not. After two weeks of steep mountain hiking. Tens of miles on the trail. Miles of elevation gain at high altitudes. I'm pretty sure it's my new trail shoes. I thought I should tell you because you're more likely to hit the trail when you're confident about having an easy, comfortable hike.