Disease Proof : Disease Proof : Health & Nutrition News & Commentary : Dr. Joel Fuhrman

Spend a day in New York City and you’ll run into dozens of street merchants hocking bootlegged DVDs and “Alvin Klein” designer watches, but Joe Ades was different. For 60 years the salesman, originally from Manchester, England, setup shop throughout Manhattan, often at the Union Square Greenmarket, and demonstrated his amazing $5 Swiss vegetable peeler on carrots, potatoes and pineapples for eager onlookers and tourists. Joe died on Sunday, at the age 75; The New York Times reports.

Sadly, I never saw him in action, but this video captures what Joe was all about. How could you not buy hundreds of peelers from him!

And in 2007, we lost another fruit and vegetable pioneer. William F. Whitman Jr. died at the ripe-old age of 92. Bill Whitman, as he was known, spent his entire life tracking down rare and exotic fruits from all over the world and was the only person to grow mangosteen outdoors in the continental United States.

Mangosteen is a high-antioxidant fruit very popular in Japan, but easily perishable and hard to export.

Via Serious Eats.

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Last week, Howard Stern said he wanted six-pack abs. So, being a super-fan, I asked Dr. Fuhrman to help him out. And today, Lisa G. of Howard 100 News talked about it on the show!

Here’s the transcript of Lisa in the studio with Howard and Robin from today’s show:

Howard: Anything else?

Lisa: Yes, an online health blog has given advice to you. Advice on how you might be able to finally get the six-pack abs that you’re hoping for. Dr. Joel Fuhrman recommends that you eat carefully every other day, just vegetables, beans and fruit with no grains, oils or animal products. You should be avoiding bread, olive oil and egg whites on those careful days.

Howard: If I did that, I would probably lose another 20 pounds and I’d look like a skeleton.

Robin: But your abs would be flat!

Lisa: You’d get cut.

Howard: I see these guys and they’re also big on top and stuff. I don’t know how they do it. Me, I just start looking more like I was just released from Auschwitz. I don’t get it.

Lisa: Well, the bodybuilders I know they eat eggs whites chicken and broccoli.

Howard: Nah. I don’t think they run. I think that’s what the secret is.

Robin: No. But you got to run. Because you got to take down the body fat, right?

Howard: I don’t know. I don’t know how they do it. And you know what, I’m a little passed my prime.

Robin: You think it’s that. You’re passed the prime.

Howard: My trainer says if I stood up straight I would have no belly.

Everyone laughs.

A mention on the Howard Stern Show, so freaking cool! Thanks again to Lisa G. And Lisa, come on. Take me up on my offer. You and me, let’s do dinner! I’ll bring you free books.

Hey everyone, email Howard 100 News and tell Lisa G. she needs to have dinner with yours truly: howard100news@sirius-radio.com. Help a brother out!

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Here’s proof. Animals can get food addictions too! Stains, the Australian Sheppard, loves cupcakes. So much, that when animal trainer Victoria Stillwell tries to teach him some table manners, he snaps into an eerie trance. Eek!

Stains might like junk food. But other dogs and cats love their fruits and veggies, from corn and watermelon to carrots and broccoli.

Via Serious Eats.

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