David Rabie

May 27, 2008

Low-Cal Brews Aid Ale-ing Six-Pack Abs

By David Rabie

With summer looming on the horizon, many of you are probably planning on spending inordinate amounts of time at the beach. To that end, the gym will probably start to get more crowded, much like it does right after New Y...

May 19, 2008

I.V. Streets Deserve Additional Leafy Eats

By David Rabie

Remember when it was awesome at 2 a.m. to be hungry and to be in Isla Vista as a freshman? Yeah, me neither. OK, that's a lie.

May 12, 2008

New Studies Bolster Caffeine Craze

By David Rabie

Caffeine... the most innocuous of stimulants. What began with tea and coffee over a thousand years ago has grown into a multibillion-dollar industry of Caramel Frappuccinos and Monster energy drinks. Between coffee, tea,...

May 5, 2008

Mind, Body and Soul: Big Restaurants Conceal Bigger Calories

By David Rabie

In light of the recent publication, and rapid rise atop the Amazon.com bestseller list, of Eat This, Not That, I thought it would be salient to help expose some of the ostensibly fraudulent claims of massive chain restau...

May 2, 2008

Funky Facts Contradict Fishy Fables

By David Rabie

If you're like me, you would love to eat sushi every night of the week if you could. Unfortunately, as college students we are hamstrung by our ever-thinning wallets and, naturally, for our own safety, we want to avoid e...

April 23, 2008

Scientific Evidence Debunks Fatty Fables

By David Rabie

Whole, low-fat or nonfat? Which do you usually go for? Do you choose based on taste or health, or do you compromise? Best-selling author and nutrition expert Michael Pollan has deemed the low-fat craze to be the greatest...

April 11, 2008

Drinking Wine Comes With Some Grape Expectations

By David Rabie

Healthy vice. Oxymoron? By the strict definition, it most assuredly is. However, with a change in perspective, something once viewed as a vice could theoretically be viewed later as something healthy. There could also be...

April 4, 2008

Take a Deep Breath, It Will be OK

By David Rabie

Take a deep breath. How often do you hear people saying that when you are stressed or angry? Simply breathing in and out slowly can relieve your stress and make you infinitely more level-headed. Ninety-nine percent of th...

March 7, 2008

Eschew Atkins in Favor of Veggies

By David Rabie

Vegetarians, vegans, pescetarians, fruitarians - the list of different diets is endlessly confounding. There are people who eat only meat and fruit and others who eat only raw foods. Even more astounding is the naivety o...

February 29, 2008

Ethanol Fuels Intense Food Debate

By David Rabie

In an environmentally conscious environment like UCSB, the issue of global warming seems front and center among the problems afflicting the world today. American politicians, especially the three presidential contenders,...

February 22, 2008

Organic May Just Be a Veggie Tale

By David Rabie

The word organic has traversed in and out of the American lexicon for decades - each time coming out with a seemingly fresh definition. Science geek's aside, today organic is associated with an environmentally friendly w...

February 15, 2008

Guru Uncovers I.V.’s Healthy Vittles

By David Rabie

Freebirds, Super Cucas, Cantina, Rosarito and even El Sitio - to most, Isla Vista is synonymous with dirty, greasy, unhealthy Mexican food. If you want healthy food and are afraid of venturing outside the safe confines o...

February 8, 2008

Mind, Body & Soul: Hush Little Baby, Don’t Say a Word

By David Rabie

The average college student sleeps about seven hours per night, while the typical requirement for adults is eight hours per night. Obviously, everybody knows the atypical person who functions just fine on four hours per ...

January 31, 2008

Mind, Body, and Soul: Pill Popping Pervades our Society

By David Rabie

I decided to do an experiment that might threaten my health and well being to be able to write an entertaining column for all my loyal readers - all five of you. So through illicit means - which are all too easy these da...

January 25, 2008

Army Against Cancer Needs Help

By David Rabie

Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods. They are two of the most world-famous athletes of all time, yet they both share one blemish on their resumes.

January 18, 2008

Boot Camp Purges the Urges to Eat

By David Rabie

Fifteen miles of hiking, four hours of daily exercise class, 1400-calorie-a-day vegetarian diet and not to mention a 5:30 a.m. wakeup call - The Ashram is a glorified boot camp celebrities and average Joe's alike pay tho...