Summer’s approaching and it’s time to gear up for your favorite pasttime, golf. Now’s the best time to start searching for your ideal clubs so get going. You know you’ve been wanting to do this for ages. Click below and find your best swing.
This article is from the wall street journal:
“A lot of Americans think they’re eating a healthy diet these days. But it’s easy to be fooled by our assumptions and the ways that food manufacturers play on them.
Take chicken. The average American eats about 90 pounds of it a year, more than twice as much as in the 1970s, part of the switch to lower-fat, lower-cholesterol meat proteins. But roughly one-third of the fresh chicken sold in the U.S. is “plumped” with water, salt and sometimes a seaweed extract called carrageenan that helps it retain the added water. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says chicken processed this way can still be labeled “all natural” or “100% natural” because those are all natural ingredients, even though they aren’t naturally found in chicken.
Producers must mention the added ingredients on the package — but the lettering can be small: just one-third the size of the largest letter in the product’s name. If you’re trying to watch your sodium to cut your risk of high blood pressure, heart attack and stroke, it pays to check the Nutrition Facts label. Untreated chicken has about 45 to 60 mgs of sodium per four-ounce serving. So-called enhanced or “plumped” chicken has between 200 and 400 mgs of sodium per serving, almost as much as a serving of fast-food french fries.
Adding salt water became widespread when big discount stores began selling groceries and wanted to sell chicken at uniform weights and prices. Plumping packaged chicken helps even out the weight. But that means consumers are paying for added salt water at chicken prices — an estimated $2 billion worth every year, according to the Truthful Labeling Coalition, a group of chicken producers that don’t enhance their products….”
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Why are we in the dark about where our food comes from?
From forbes:
1. A House
2. A Car
3. A Vacation
4. Toys
5. High-Dividend Stocks
6. A Laptop
7. Diamonds
8. Women’s Clothing
9. A Television
10. Furniture
Whenever you hear about a “secret” discount code, obviously, it’s no longer secret! Whether it’s just a publicity stunt or whatever, it’s still a discount, hard and true. Use the code NFAF when booking at any Fairmont Hotel online and you can save a significant amount on your next Fairmont hotel hotel stay.
A few restriction apply. Your stay is for personal travel only and must be reserved within 90 days of the booking date. To note: should there be a big event going on in town and the Fairmont thinks they can get higher rates, the promo code might only give you a tiny discount. So make sure to check what’s going on in town and make sure the rates would be relatively low so you can get a good deal using the discount code.
You also need to use a Booker ID # to book it. Use this code upon Step 3 of your online reservation 54807046. (Hotel Chatter’s affiliate number, I suppose. This is where I found the news item).
The cold and dreary days of winter are almost behind us. Thank. God. - and it’s a good time to be thinking about your summer vacations. Your last trip was much too long ago, wasn’t it? While you have some leeway, start preparing now for your next holiday. Yes, you can start to think about losing a few pounds here and there if you care about that kind of thing, but what I like to think about instead, is camera gear. Last time my photos were pretty satisfactory but there were too many days where I wished I had a different lens to get the shot just right. If you have a Nikon, why not think about improving your equipment repertoire? Getting some new lenses is a good start!
Why Should You Care About Pesticides?
The growing consensus among scientists is that small doses of pesticides and other chemicals can cause lasting damage to human health, especially during fetal development and early childhood.
Scientists now know enough about the long-term consequences of ingesting these powerful chemicals to advise that we minimize our consumption of pesticides.
What’s the Difference?
EWG research has found that people who eat the 12 most contaminated fruits and vegetables consume an average of 10 pesticides a day. Those who eat the 15 least contaminated conventionally-grown fruits and vegetables ingest fewer than 2 pesticides daily. The Guide helps consumers make informed choices to lower their dietary pesticide load.
Will Washing and Peeling Help?
Nearly all the studies used to create these lists assume that people rinse or peel fresh produce. Rinsing reduces but does not eliminate pesticides. Peeling helps, but valuable nutrients often go down the drain with the skin. The best approach: eat a varied diet, rinse all produce and buy organic when possible.
How Was This Guide Developed?
EWG analysts have developed the Guide based on data from nearly
87,000 tests for pesticide residues in produce conducted between
2000 and 2007 and collected by the U.S. Department of Agriculture
and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. You can find a detailed
description of the criteria EWG used to develop these rankings and
the complete list of fruits and vegetables tested at our dedicated
website, www.foodnews.org.
Did you know that Amazon sells sofas? I just noticed them and some are awesomely cute and would go well in some of our rooms. Though I usually associate Amazon with books and DVDs. Also, now I am beginning to download music there, it just seems to be THE place to shop when you’re at home. Any chance you have to NOT drive somewhere, is a good opportunity to take. So why not try to get a sofa? Wanna?
