Politics is playing a role in the nutrition debate and public health is the worse for it, and will continue to get worse unless people take more interest.

Popular fitness company #CrossFit drops Facebook because Facebook, without explanation, deleted a user page with 1.65 users dedicated to the hi-fat/low-carb diet. Agenda-driven health and nutrition types are now using censorship to silence opposition.

Agenda-driven diet and nutrition advice has done more to damage the public health than any other element save cigarettes. As tobacco use drops, this bad diet advice will continue to do damage in the future. The meat is bad, fat is bad, cholesterol is bad agenda is not just based on bad information; these positions are flat out lies.

The New York Yankees have started the season off with a bang. Unfortunately for them it’s not winning games, but losing players to injuries. It’s their training.

Going beyond mere body weight issues and other superficial dietary matters, ‘Grain Brain’ will tell you how what you eat effects your brain in the short and long term. A must read!

‘Why We Sleep,’ is such an important book that I want to spend more time discussing how detrimental lack of sleep is. Please read - or listen to - this book!

If you think you can get by on 6 hours of sleep per night, or that you can catch up on lost sleep, listen to this episode and get a teaser for just how wrong you can be.

The book ‘The Thinking Body,’ was written by Mabel Elsworth Todd almost 100 years ago, and is better than 99% of the exercise books currently available. Get it and read it. More than once.

Just like at Thanksgiving, now is the time to enjoy holiday food and drink and not stress about it. Also, don’t fall into the New Year’s Resolution trap. Make changes if you must, but don’t tie this to the calendar.

Here are 3 books that you should find interesting and thought provoking. One each from the worlds of exercise and nutrition and one, a non-fitness book, that provides info that’s applicable regardless of the field of endeavor.