Author Archives: Berto
About Berto
Hi! This is my blog!Why the New Diet Soda Weight Loss Study is Flawed to the Core
This week, a new research study is trending, with article titles such as Clinical trial reaffirms diet beverages play positive role in weight loss.[1] This study came out of the University of Colorado's Denver medical campus.[2]
The TL;DR they want you to readThese stories provide the following bits of information:
- It was a 12-week trial,
- 303 participants were selected and placed into a water group or an NNS Group (non-nutritive sweetener -- diet
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What the SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch Success Means to America
Yesterday morning, SpaceX successfully launched their Falcon 9 rocket and accompanying Dragon capsule into orbit, and safely brought Dragon back home. This was COTS Demonstration I, which means they are proving to NASA that they are capable of launching and maneuvering cargo (and eventually astronauts) into orbit and to the International Space Station.
This mission is paramount because the Space Shuttle program is being decommissioned and we're going to have to rely on Russian Soyuz … Read the rest →
You Can't Live the American Dream in Europe
Greetings from Guangzhou, China! A few weeks ago, I traveled to Europe with friends. We did a weekend in Amsterdam, spent Sunday night in Belgium, hung in Interlaken, Switzerland during the week, and then finally the boys and girls split and we guys headed to Munich, Germany for Oktoberfest (the girls opted for somewhat-less-exciting Paris). It was an utterly epic trip.
Throughout these travels, I met an incredible amount of European men and women, and … Read the rest →
My 2010 Mission Statement
This is interesting to read. I'm keeping it here.
The mission statement below really launched PricePlow into what it became. It centers around our fight for transparency in the supplement industry -- a mission we (as a whole industry) were laregly successful with.
My personal journey, however, has evolved from crusading against "bad actors" to exploring metabolic health through an alternative lens, while creating food to support our findings. The investigative … Read the rest →
Week One in the Books
...well, kinda. I just concluded my first three days of reporting to nobody and no one. Honestly, I didn't think it'd feel that much different, as I already worked from home. But it did. In fact, it felt GREAT.
The greatest thing was the lack of distractions. On Wednesday, something [good] came up on one of my sites and I needed to put in a serious 3 hours of grunt work*. I turned the … Read the rest →
Two Paths From Here
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. --Robert Frost
Tomorrow is the big day. My first day as a fully self-employed entrepreneur.
Over the past few months, as I've seen this time coming, I asked myself who I was going to be in the foreseeable future. And the more I thought and talked about it, the more clear it became.… Read the rest →