Category: Active Life

Body Solid exm1500s | A Highly Rated Home Gym | Compare prices for the Best Deal

| December 26, 2011
Body Solid exm1500s among the best gyms on the market

The Body-Solid EXM1500S is a highly rated home gym with a wide range of features. These include an ally pulley system which will allow you to do a diverse selection of exercises such as lateral pull downs, seated rows, bicep curls, military press to name just a few of the exercises you will be able to do on this

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Body Solid g4i Iso-flex Home Gym | Compare Prices and FInd the Best Deal Here

| December 25, 2011
Body Solid g4i

Body Solid g4i

The Body Solid Iso-Flex Home Gym’s claim to fame is its Iso-Flex feature which is currently undergoing patent review. This feature will allow you to exercise your muscles at the point of stress of the exercise as well as the muscles which act to stabilize the motion, like free weights but with the safety design of a home gym.

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Confidence Elliptical Trainer: The Elliptical Trainer with a seat

| December 22, 2011
Confidence Elliptical Trainer

The Confidence Fitness Elliptical 2-in-1 trainer crosses the line between an elliptical trainer and an exercise bike. This is good news for your fitness routine as variation is the key to success.

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Fast Food Advertising

| January 12, 2011
Fast Food Advertising

As we push hard through January with our recently made New Years’ Resolutions temptation it seems is now pushing back harder.

Time magazine comments on a US Today story that fast food companies are trying to offer tantalizing deals in different forms:

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New Years’ Resolutions

| January 1, 2011
New Years’ Resolutions

January 01 and it is that time when so many of us pledge to change our ways. Most of the time these resolutions have to do with food and fitness. Rather than give you a list of resolutions on what to eat or what to do I would like to leave you with a four [...]

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Celebrity Chef moves into Montreal

| November 11, 2010
Celebrity Chef moves into Montreal

Gordon Ramsay, a celebrity chef best known for his on air temper tantrums has added Rotisserie Laurier, a long established Montreal restaurant that specializes in barbecued chicken to the growing list of restaurants he now owns. Rotisserie Laurier has been a fixture in Outremont for more than 80 years. The write up in the Montreal [...]

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Fish and chips at Comptoir 21

| October 19, 2010
Fish and chips at Comptoir 21

The image pulled us in. Fish and chips at Comptoir 21 down at Mile End in Montreal. Catch the review in the Montreal Gazette. Sometimes nothing hits the spot like a good fry up

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Economics of the Hamburger

| October 14, 2010
Economics of the Hamburger

If you have ever wondered just how popular hamburgers are then this poster is perfect for you courtesy of the money management site Mint. The scale of it all is something that is hard to imagine, so many hamburgers, buns, so much relish and condiment, such enormous sums of money generated. Each of us make [...]

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Freakonomics of Bad Service

| October 12, 2010
Freakonomics of Bad Service

So, you walk into a KFC and order some chicken. To your surprise the server curtly informs you that they’ve run out. They’ve run out! How could they run out of chicken? Chicken is what they do, isn’t it? No it’s not a joke. Specialized franchises will on occasion simply run out of whatever thing [...]

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Chinese Turkey

| October 9, 2010
Chinese Turkey

Trained Chef Jonathan Cheung is among the people featured in a story in the Montreal Gazette on the variations of the traditional Thanksgiving meal. The Chinese turkey that Cheung prepares is a subtle twist on the norm.

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