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Skinny Bitch Diet

Another diet book has hit the shelves and if you can believe what you read it’s  already found a legion of followers. Posh has been responsible for the exponential rise in sales of a diet boo that was until her intervention doing mediocre. Apparently Posh, the science lab skeleton, was recently photographed with the book under her wing. This has been a huge coup for the authors apparently sending sales up by 700%, who better than a waif to promote starvation to the masses.

Diet tips from fools

The Authors of the “Skinny Bitch Diet” aren’t nutritionists or dietitians, but two women from the modeling industry.  Rory Freedman, a model agent and Kim Barnouin, an ex model promoting their ideas on how to get skinny by starving yourself.

So how do stick insects become diet gurus?

If you can go by their bio it would seem that between the two of them they had little idea how to eat or more to the point when to stop, “Kim and I were total pigs, but when we started eating better and feeling better, we felt passionate about sharing that knowledge”

Some tips from the gurus

To give you some idea of the type of eating patterns we’re talking about; here are a few tips from the girl’s book.

• “Stop being a moron and get skinny”
• “Get used to being ravenous”
• “Fat people who think milk can be low fat are morons, cow’s milk grows 40kg calves into 907kg cows in 2 years, uhh sound fattening? It is duh!”

What a waste of trees

To think that healthy trees go into providing the paper for these books that only add more angst and confusion amongst the already confused women of the world. And why would anybody take advice from two women that have been disgorged from an industry so fucked up that they had to introduce a BMI evaluation to circumvent starving catwalk models falling off the perch.

My only advise, make sure if you end up as skinny as Posh you carry a large handbag, it will give you something to hang onto should you fall through a storm water grate.

Matthew McConaughey, A Man’s Man & A Woman’s Dream

It would seem Matt McConaughey has cornered the market on testosterone, not only do the girls go ape over his shirtless torso, men also aspire to look like him. Whenever you see photos he’s always in shape, between shoots on the many movies he’s been involved in he is always captured training along a beach or on some hot location. So how does he get and stay in such good shape?

Good Genetics will always help

Although Matt has great genetics (his dad was a Green Bay Packer) he still needs to work to stay in shape and the way he does is by being consistent. Any photos, always catch him either riding a bike, shooting hoops, surfing or just throwing a Frisbee, he is always doing something active.

Great abs don’t come easy

Matt’s abs can be found sandwiched between most gossip rags or splashed across newspapers.  It would seem when on location he doesn’t mind training out in the public eye and being in such good shape, he laps up female admiration sending most men off to the gym. His ab routine consists of crunches, leg raises, side crunches, twists and light weighted side bends.

Cardio overtime

Whenever Matt has the time he’s doing cardio, he obviously learnt that good abs aren’t much good if they’re buried under a role of fat, cardio keeps him lean and his abs in your face. Overall having a lean frame excensuates your musculature and makes you lean and mean.

Pay dirt

Keeping himself in peak condition all year round has not only landed him some great roles where we are happy see him loose his shirt, but also into the lap of some of Hollywood’s hottest women. Sandra Bullock, Ashley Judd, Patricia Arquett and Penelope Cruise to name a few. When he was recently down under for his role in the movie Fools Gold, word on the set was that he loved to not only have a drink with the locals but also a few night caps. 

Matts Motto

To sum up Matt’s life and training routine in one sentence would be best left to him “Be a lean horse for the long ride”.

Ageing Stars Turn Back The Clock

We are told that with age comes wisdom and that wisdom is revered, unfortunately it would appear that society today views ageing as a disease, a disease that must be treated by all means possible. A wrinkle isn’t a wrinkle but a laugh line, a man doesn’t age he becomes more refined. If any one sector of society can take credit for the anti ageing rebellion its Hollywood. The stars are leading the way with procedures, to remove wrinkles, diets to reduce weight and drugs to turn back the biological clock. But are the stars turning back the clock or is it all just smoke and mirrors.

The Superannuated stars

Action hero sequels are making a come back, Sylvester Stallone at 60 pocketed $150 million for Rocky and is now on set doing Rambo 4, Harrison Ford is pushing the envelope at 66 and is reprising the role of Indiana Jones, Bruce Willis is 52 and is preparing to jump back into his role in Die Hard 4. You can only do so much to turn back the years and after that it would seem Hollywood may turn to smoke and mirrors.

Old guys get buffed

Trainer to the stars Ricardo Macedo, says “older guys need more work in the gym, with sluggish metabolism and ageing bodies they don’t respond as well as younger guys, Stallone has bulk and needs to focus on cardio, Bruce Willis on the other hand needs to focus on weights” and if all else fails Hollywood steps in with digital enhancements.

Balding, creaking, wrinkled stars

The ravages of time eventually catch up with all of us unless you have the unfortunate luck of walking under a bus or dieing like James Dean in a car accident. The plucked, pumped and preened stars of the big screen is clear evidence Hollywood doesn’t intend to grow old gracefully and the message to us,

“Yippee KiYaa motherfucker”, and yes “they’ll be back”.

What's Worse, Eating Crap or Listening to it?

A recent study found that people on high protein low carb diets are more likely to turn up their toes earlier than their high carb-eating counterparts. High protein diets have been in favour for some time with several high profile personalities including Geri Halliwell, Jennifer Aniston and Sandra Bullock all asserting the benefits of the low carb protocol. It would appear the whole diet industry might be one big contradiction, what is thought to be beneficial one day is thrown out the window the next. So are you able to eat high amounts of protein and less carbs and still stay healthy?

What they didn't tell you

The study apparently carried out on 40,000 middle aged women over the course of   12 years, found that the less carbs they consumed the higher the risk of an early grave. What the study didn't say was the higher risk of dying wasn't the protein but the saturated fat that usually accompanies high protein, e.g. meat, burgers, fried chicken etc. High levels of Saturated fat intake is a known risk for coronary heart disease (CHD) compounded by the decreased levels of estrogen and progesterone, that decline with the onset of menopause. Both hormones are thought to be the protective factors for younger women. 

Possible renal damage

High protein diets have been associated with increased risk of kidney problems, the increased clearance rates of urea, which is a by-product of protein waste that is excreted as urine, is suggested to be the mechanism for renal problems. The findings, that increased levels of protein can cause kidney damage in healthy individuals are unsubstantiated.

Ketosis and metabolic conditions

What happens during carb restriction is the body goes into ketosis; the liver converts fatty acids to ketone bodies, which can be used as energy in the absence of glucose, the preferred fuel of the bodies' cells. Ketosis is considered to be the crisis reaction by the body, its way of coping with lack of carbs. This study referred to the dangerous state of ketosis, yet the state of ketoacidosis (Severe ketosis causes blood PH to fall) is what is being referred to.  The milder form of ketosis that Atkins, Zone and L.A. shape diets aspire their followers to achieve, is as  Dr Atkins referred to "benign dietary ketosis"

In short

Another study that identifies that extreme anything isn't good for you and how a little information may not only be dangerous but also hard to digest.