Throwback Thursday: Standards of Beauty
I don’t even know where to start with this piece of diet-trendy propaganda. Maybe I’ll begin with the stellar headline, which basically states that if men can’t stand the sight of you, it means you’re...
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: In a Bind
If there’s one thing we know how to do in America, it’s that we can create and sell the crap out of literally ANYTHING that promises weight loss. From pills and potions to books and contraptions, we...
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: Soda for Babies?
It’s the eternal question for all new mothers: “Should I feed my baby with breastmilk, formula, or soda?” I mean…what?! Is that a real question?! Well, yes absolutely…if the kind folks at 7-Up had...
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: The “Tasti-Diet” Secret
Don’t you just hate it when you’re living in the 1950s, you’re trying to diet, and the only options out there are full-fat salad dressings and sugary desserts? When the only canned fruits you can find...
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: The Kelp Candy Diet…Yes, This Was a Thing
So you’re telling me that there is a diet out there where I can eat CANDY every day?!?! Sign me up! Oh wait…the candy is made from kelp? And I can only eat 1,000 calories a day?! Ok in that case…GOOD...
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: Don’t Be a Cereal Killer
#ThrowbackThursday vintage Cheerios ad from 1950, where the dad can literally lift a piano with one finger because he ate his Cheerios for breakfast! I’m willing to bet that most of us ate cereal for...
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: Cheers to Oral Health!
Today’s blog post is dedicated to your teeth. Your chompers. Your pearly whites. For every quarter you got under your pillow for losing one, you paid thousands to lock them up in metal torture...
View ArticleNon-Nutrition Professionals Say the Darndest Things: Round 1
Friends, you know me. You know that I try my best to write all of my Pocket RD posts in an unbiased, non-judgmental manner. I stick to cruising down the middle of the road, rather than detouring to...
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: Liquid Diets
All trends seem to have a way of making a comeback. I literally just saw a segment on E! News explaining how to bedazzle denim. So it’s no surprise that diet trends follow the same waves....
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover
We’ve been subjected to lofty health claims on foods since seemingly the beginning of time, and cereals seem to be the worst offenders of this practice. Wheaties claimed to be the “Breakfast of...
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