Tag Archives: truth in advertising

• Why being sore makes me smile

  Posted on January 17, 2012 by FitYoginiRunner in My fitness journey

  Share It snowed last night when I was driving home. I think it kept snowing at least part of the night. When I was leaving for work this morning and went to scrape off my car in the beautiful snowy winter morning, my pecs hurt when it was time to scrape ice off of my [...]

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• Change up your routine.

  Posted on September 5, 2011 by FitYoginiRunner in Coaching, My fitness journey

  Share If you don’t like what you’re doing, are you going to do it for very long? And if you just started exercising (again or for the very first time), don’t you want to see if there’s something even more fun out there? You never know what you’re missing! You never know what you haven’t [...]

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  What is wrong with this idea?

  Posted on July 27, 2011 by FitYoginiRunner in Eating healthy

  Share Take a look at this old ad. (I saw this on another blog, but on a completely different subject.) What’s wrong with this idea? Isn’t it interesting how logical it sounds when you leave out a number of facts about sugar, hunger, satiety, and the human brain? If you look around enough, you’re bound [...]

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• Consumer Reports found heavy metals in several protein powders, including Myoplex and Muscle Milk

  Posted on September 3, 2010 by FitYoginiRunner in Eating healthy, Online resources

  Share I saw an article in Consumer Reports on heavy metal contamination of protein powders and ready-made shakes. That’s obviously mildly disconcerting. While googling for the information online to send to a twitter friend, I found a video on the article content. Since Myoplex and Muscle Milk are popular brands, I thought I’d repost the [...]

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• Distrusting before and after pictures

  Posted on August 4, 2010 by FitYoginiRunner in Coaching

  Share I’ve never been one to trust what I see in advertising. In fact, had I seen the P90X informercial before my husband told me about it, I would probably have been actively opposed instead of passively worried it’d cut into my running time. (Luckily for me, I didn’t.) So coming across this blurb about [...]

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