Jawbone Fitness Tracker Review: What the UP Series Still Gets Right Most people assume fitness tracking requires a screen. They picture a Fitbit Charge 6 flashing step counts or an Apple Watch buzzing with move reminders. The Jawbone UP line proved that wrong — and did it years before screenless Continue Reading
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Buying Protein Powder with EBT: How to Stop Getting Rejected at the Register
I spent twenty minutes arguing with a self-checkout machine at a Kroger in 2021 because I thought a tub of vanilla whey was “food.” It wasn’t. At least, not according to the USDA. The machine kept flashing red, the line behind me was growing, and the tired-looking teenager in the Continue Reading
Stop buying trash vitamins: The only supplement brands actually worth your money
Ninety percent of the supplement aisle is expensive urine. There, I said it. Most of what you see at the grocery store or in those perfectly lit Instagram ads is just low-grade industrial byproduct stuffed into a capsule with enough fillers to make a hot dog look like health food. Continue Reading
Stop feeding your kids expensive sugar: My honest take on supplements
My son looked like a sugar-crazed raccoon. It was a Tuesday morning in November 2022, around 6:15 AM, and I found him standing on the kitchen counter with an empty bottle of L’il Critters Gummy Vites. He’d eaten about forty of them. I spent the next hour on the phone Continue Reading
