Yesterday, I became aware of a hot new diet program called "AFD." Now, I don't need it, because I've already lost 60 pounds the old fashioned way, by putting less food in my mouth than I used to, getting some daily exercise, and taking some of my own brand of supplements.

I was in Florida yesterday, where the sun is hot and the beer is cold. You couldn't ask for a better combination than that, although I have so many things to do that beer can't be on the agenda until very late in the day.

Working out what is the best training plan and regime for your time spent at the gym can take a while. It can depend on what you want to achieve from your work out sessions, how much time you have and what exercises keep your interest. It is easy to make mistakes in your exercise planning.

I heard this story last week and was going to write about it, but then, I got busy and it slipped my mind for a couple of days. I was looking for something else entirely on the internet, when it popped up again. I thought I had better write about it, while it was fresh in my mind. Almost everyone I know has an airline story about sitting next to a "Lardassian," a turn of phrase coined by a friend of mine called The Big Kahuna. He travels quite a lot and has had a number of instances where the spillover has been quite unpleasant.

If you're a television watcher, you know that you are going to see at least a half dozen commercials every night, selling drugs to deal with depression. In one two-hour segment last week, I counted seven spots for depression, five for ED and two for arthritis. In most cases, there's a lot of blue sky being sold.