The (Real) Nutrition Nerd

The FDA has proposed a complete makeover for nutrition labels. Hooray! 
At the risk of supporting a government agency that usually frustrates the hell out of me, they're pretty good recommendations--provided the food industry (or "Big Food") doesn't completely whittle them down during the 90-day public comment rodeo following...

Happy Friday, Nerd Herd! I hope you all have big plans this weekend. What am I up to? Glad you asked! Last weekend was my first ever cycling race, the UCLA Road Race out in beautiful(ish) Pearblossom, CA, where I spent a little over an hour being ritually...

Once upon a time, there lived a chemist named Linus Pauling. He was a great man and the founder of several fancy, scientifical-type fields including quantum chemistry and molecular biology. Thanks to his hard work and big brain, he won a couple...

As regular Nerd Herders may know, I spent the better part of 2013 collaborating with Tony Horton on his new self help book, The Big Picture: 11 Laws That Will Change Your Life .
I've worked with Tony for years, writing collateral and creating nutrition plans for his programs, including his P90X series, but this was different. We spent some serious one-on-one time together, so much so that he almost had my name embroidered on...