Nottage makes Super Bowl commercial

it's actually for the Doritos contest to be selected for showing at the SB, but fun nonetheless!

here's the Youtube link too: http://youtu.be/nw1sfjhJov4

Dave Madden is a WorldMaker at CES

Whately Wisdom from Nate Nourse...

Here’s to fat portfolios and skinny bottom lines. 

I am glad Willy corrected Mark on the Potato issue, there is way too much misinformation on foods. A little sour cream or butter is fine, it is the cheese and bacon that make them very bad. I’d also resonate Willy’s comment on buying the best, but don’t stop eating something if you can’t get organic, the health benefits of all fruits and vegetables are huge whether conventional or organic. The importance of eating 5 or more servings per day can’t be over emphasized. Berries will provide some of the greatest benefits. 

One of my strategies includes never eating the same thing for lunch or dinner two days in a row and eating/treating myself to a sushi lunch at least once a week. Eating different foods every day causes the digestive system to be less efficient and decreasing the amount of food adsorbed. 

All the best for 2012!

Barcelona Beefcake muses on food

From Scott Pryce: Thanks for this.  I remember fondly the days when I was trying to gain weight by lifting and eating as much as possible (say double full English breakfast with pie).  This was after getting out of the marine corps and in my first grad degree.   How times have changed!    And I have double Mark’s issue with the fast eating thing:  in the Marines we had no time to eat literally.  You ate when you thought you had a few minutes in which you wouldn’t move or be tasked with something.  So if you opened up a ration and didn’t wolf it all down quickly, you were likely to get interrupted and lose what you hadn’t finished.

Singapore Slim - Piersol weighs in

"Mark’s comments are pretty much spot on—eliminate all processed/fried foods—this is your biggest enemy. If it’s possible—particularly from a time perspective—make your meals at home from scratch with the best ingredients you can muster. These will be the biggest initial hurdles.


Mark’s claims about carbohydrates are accurate. Despite what “experts” claim and the claims of carbo-heavy FDA food pyramid—carbs are what will kill you weight-wise as it catalyzes into sugar and eventually leaves you hungry. One aspect Mark doesn’t discuss is eating proper proteins. You need fat to satisfy your hunger—otherwise it will be more challenging to lose weight sustainably. If you are eating high-quality meats, fishes, and poultry this should fulfil your hunger, and prevent you from snacking between meals. Even consuming low-fat yogurt, drinking skim milk, eating no butter—has the opposite effect in my opinion. You’ll be hungry in a few hours time.

If you are eating the proper proteins and fats, it should keep you from being delirious by 3pm. A diet of denial is difficult to sustain. Eating smartly is. And you should be able to keep the weight off sustainably with this type of balanced approach.


I do disagree strongly on his claim for potatoes. Potatoes –buy quality if you can (i.e organic)-- have Vitamin C and B complex, as well as potassium, calcium, and iron. The skin is full of fiber as well, and the potato itself has chloragenic acid which some believe has anti-cancer properties. It is true, in some people like diabetics, potatoes induce blood-sugar levels to rise, but the pros outweigh the cons IMO and you better served to forgo white rice, white bread, etc.
My best to you and your family for 2012—the Year of the Dragon. Tell anyone who is coming to Singapore to look me up.

Last thought on the diet discussion: exercise is important but it's secondary in importance to a proper diet, A proper diet will do a lot of the heavy lifting for you."