Category Archives: diet

Skin checks, the Big C and the body politic

Posted on September 22, 2020 by Christopher Cudworth

This morning I visited the dermatologist for an annual skin check. My father had skin cancer and it’s nothing to mess around with. The sight of his bald head ground down to red patches is enough reminder to get my … Continue reading →

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Is sugar trending in your feed?

Posted on August 31, 2020 by Christopher Cudworth

I read a nice blog by a fellow fitness writer today. She does such a nice job of summarizing the problems associated with eating too much sugar, and what to do about it. She noticed a trend toward a desire … Continue reading →

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The high value of red meat and bones

Posted on August 27, 2019 by Christopher Cudworth

We adopted a dog from Safe Haven, the rescue group that brings abandoned pups from Tennessee and Kentucky up to Illinois to find homes for them. We named her Lucy, in part after triathlete Lucy Charles-Barclay, a person we both … Continue reading →

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When reality bites, call in the experts

Posted on June 28, 2019 by Christopher Cudworth

Last weekend I began to notice a sore area around my #18 molar. That’s the tooth on the far back left side of the mouth. It would flare up and recede in relation to cold or sweets and I knew, … Continue reading →

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Coffee clutching

Posted on July 2, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

A true confession: I don’t drink coffee. Never have. Never will. Don’t like the taste. Didn’t like it forty years ago in college. Still don’t like it today. Yet last week while driving home from a gym workout, I picked … Continue reading →

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Keeping our wits about Cheerios and cancer

Posted on December 7, 2016 by Christopher Cudworth

A couple weeks ago the story broke that the breakfast cereal Cheerios® from General Mills is one of the products in which glyphosate was found in trace amounts. Glyphosate is the active ingredient in a Monsanto herbicide called RoundUp used … Continue reading →

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It’s time to go fast for @gofast

Posted on October 23, 2015 by Christopher Cudworth

My Twitter handle @gofast was concocted at a moment’s notice when signing up for social media several years ago. I’ve tweeted something like 6000 times since then. That means I’m quick on the draw, have an overly active mind, take … Continue reading →

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