January 3rd, 2009 admin
Sooooo, Santa did not bring me what I wanted for Christmas. Boo hooooooooooooo! How am I suppose to get in shape in 2009? I really need one. Oh. I suppose needing a new TV has something to do with not getting a Wii Fit, but I want one! I keep hearing how people love it and how great they feel and how fit they’re getting. Oh well. I guess I’ll have to get it myself, which is fine but I’ll have to save up a little. Maybe it’ll be an early bday present for moi. Yes. Body, get ready to get fit! Want to join me?
Get Fit and Have Fun at the Same Time!
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December 31st, 2008 admin
I think the new year is a good time to think about your health, your future and your family. If I had to name an item that was so pervasive that it incorporated all of the above items, I’d say it would be your cell phone. It’s insane, isn’t it? Remember when no one had cell phones? Maybe not, but so many people depend a great deal on this tiny electronic device. Is it important? That’s up to you to decide but if you absolutely can’t live without one, here are some things to think about: 1) Is the cost of the phone worth it? Does it fit comfortably in your budget?; 2) Do you really need a cell phone? 3) Do you need a trendy, fancy one with a million functions or do you simply need a very basic one? 4) Most importantly above all, do you know how much your cell phone radiates? Make sure you find out and compare the potential dangers of using certain cell phones. Better safe than sorry. Now, having considered all that…
Get a safe cell phone now
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December 19th, 2008 admin
You didn’t think all you could do on your Nintendo DS Lite
was to play Yoshi’s Island
and Mario Kart
all day long, did you? Or are you more of a Dr. Kawashima
kind of DS game player? Whatever the case, get with the program; you can cook up a storm with Personal Trainer: Cooking on your trusty DS. It’s so wonderful because the DS is small and will fit on your counter while you cook and remind you about what you need to do to prepare some of the most tastiest dishes on earth. Check it out.
First things first: select a recipe. With 245+ to choose from, Personal Trainer: Cooking makes it easy to find what you’re looking for by helping you browse by country, ingredients, difficulty, cooking time, cooking technique or even calorie count.
Once you’ve found something that looks yummy, take a look at the ingredients. Out of butter or need to buy some cumin? Just tap them with the stylus to automatically add the ingredients to your Shopping List. Making several dishes tonight? Just keep tapping ingredients - your Shopping List keeps it all in one place for you. Now that you’ve got your ingredients, it’s time to start cooking. The DS Chef is there with you, talking you through every step along the way. Don’t know how to fillet a trout? Watch the demonstration video when you get to that step. Didn’t quite catch the last step? Just say “Repeat,” and the Chef will explain it again. You can pause the recipe at any time to consult the Cooking A-Z guide, and prompts will appear within recipes for specific terms you might need more information about.
Click below to get one now.
Personal Trainer: Cooking
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November 19th, 2008 admin
From amazon:
“Out of the thousands of new releases that came into our cubicles this year, we’ve chosen our 100 favorites, from an elegant pop-up alphabet and a deliciously dishy guide to fragance to an enthralling biography of an iconic leader and an encyclopedic history of a sport and the world that plays it. Here they are, so click below.”
Best Books of 2008
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October 27th, 2008 admin
With the impending U.S. presidential elections right around the corner, I thought I’d feature The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
written by presidential candidate, Barack Obama.
It’s funny how most of the world wants Obama to win, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that American wants him to win. It seems the educated, rational and hopeful people of the world who would vote for Obama if they could, are far from sharing the same sentiments as middle America.
If people had a sense of reason, and could just put their partisan role aside, the obvious person who will turn the U.S. around (from its horrible and colossal downward spiral), would be Obama.
He would not only be good for America, but he’d make the world a better place.
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
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October 11th, 2008 admin
I don’t need to remind you that we’re already getting into the middle of OCTOBER. But I DO need to say that it means one thing: you have to figure out what you and your kids (if you have kids) are going to dress up as for Halloween. No. Don’t wait ’til the last minute then end up going as something stupid and silly and totally not thought through thoroughly. DON’T end up throwing a sheet over your head. That is so embarrassing. Don’t put it off. Hey and remember a costume for your pet if it can handle it.
Get Costumes EARLY
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October 1st, 2008 admin
The breast cancer foundations and organizations’ missions are to save lives by increasing awareness of breast cancer through education, research, community-based outreach programs and by providing mammograms for those in need. Do your part by supporting these groups. Every time you purchase a participating product at Amazon, partial proceeds go to those people who need it the most. Please take the time to consider supporting breast cancer reasearch and THINK PINK.
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August 27th, 2008 admin
What’s better for you — whole milk, 2% milk or skim?
Is a chicken labeled “free range” good enough to reassure you of its purity? How about “grass fed” beef?
What form of soy is best for you — soy milk or tofu?
About milk: I’ll bet most of you voted for reduced or non-fat. But if you’ll turn to page 153 of “In Defense of Food,” you’ll read that processors don’t make low-fat dairy products just by removing the fat. To restore the texture — to make the drink “milky” — they must add stuff, usually powdered milk. Did you know powdered milk contains oxidized cholesterol, said to be worse for your arteries than plain old cholesterol? And that removing the fat makes it harder for your body to absorb the fat-soluble vitamins that make milk a valuable food in the first place?
About chicken and beef: Readers of Pollan’s previous book, “The Omnivore’s Dilemma“, know that “free range” refers to the chicken’s access to grass, not whether it actually ventures out of its coop. And all cattle are “grass fed” until they get to the feedlot. The magic words for delightful beef are “grass finished” or “100% grass fed”.
And about soy…but I dare to hope I have your attention by now. And that you don’t want to be among the two-thirds of Americans who are overweight and the third of our citizens who are likely to develop type 2 diabetes before 2050. And maybe, while I have your eyes, you might be mightily agitated to learn that America spends $250 billion — that’s a quarter of the costs of the Iraq war — each year in diet-related health care costs. And that our health care professionals seem far more interested in building an industry to treat diet-related diseases than they do in preventing them. And that the punch line of this story is as sick as it is simple: preventing diet-related disease is easy.
In just 200 pages (and 22 pages of notes and sources), “In Defense of Food” gives you a guided tour of 20th century food science, a history of “nutritionism” in America and a snapshot of the marriage of government and the food industry. And then it steps up to the reason most readers will buy it — and if you care for your health and the health of your loved ones, this is a no-brainer one-click — and presents a commonsense shopping-and-eating guide.
If you are up on your Pollan and your Nina Planck and your Barbara Kingsolver, you know the major points of the “real food” movement. But if you’re new to this information or are disinclined to buy or read this book, let me lay Pollan’s argument out for you:
– High-fructose corn syrup is the devil’s brew. Do yourself a favor and remove it from your diet. (If you have kids, here’s a place to start: Heinz smartly offers an “organic” ketchup, made with sugar.)
– Avoid any food product that makes health claims — they mean it’s probably not really food.
– In a supermarket, don’t shop in the center aisles. Avoid anything that can’t rot, anything with an ingredient you can’t pronounce.
– “Don’t get your fuel from the same place your car does.”
– “You are what you eat eats too.” Most cows end their days on a diet of corn, unsold candy, their pulverized brothers and sisters — yeah, you read that right — and a pharmacy’s worth of antibiotics. And they bestow that to you. Consider that the next time there’s a sale on sirloin.
– “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” By which Pollan means: Eat natural food, the kind your grandmother served (and not because she was so wise, but because the food industry had not yet learned that the big money was in processing, not harvesting). Use meat sparingly. Eat your greens, the leafier and more varied the better.
In short: Kiss the Western diet as we know it goodbye. Look to the cultures where people eat well and live long. Ignore the faddists and experts. Trust your gut. Literally.
In all this, Pollan insists that you have to save yourself. And he makes a good case why. Our government, he says, is so overwhelmed by the lobbying and marketing power of our processed food industry that the American diet is now 50% sugar in one form or another — calories that provide “virtually nothing but energy.” Our representatives are almost uniformly terrified to take on the food industry. And as for the medical profession, the key moment, Pollan writes, is when “doctors kick the fast-food franchises out of the hospital” — don’t hold your breath.
“You want to live, follow me.” I loved it when Schwarzenegger said that in “Terminator.” It matters much more when, in so many words, Michael Pollan delivers that same message in “In Defense of Food.” [review by J.Kornbluth]
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August 22nd, 2008 admin
Don’t be a cheapskate about selecting premium grade Japanese rice when making sushi. Yes, Kokuho Rose is a little bit more expensive than what you can find out there but the result you get with using it just can NOT compare to what you would use if you get something cheap. Spend a little extra and see the amazing difference. You will never go back to that crappy cheap rice ever again. If you’re a true foodie and have experience as someone who really understands quality and taste in food, you will know that I’m telling the truth here.
Get real rice now
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August 20th, 2008 admin
There’s an incredible sale going on right now on Ironman fitness equipment, so I thought I’d feature the awesome Ironman Elliptical Trainer. Ironman Aeros Elliptical is not just a great buy, but if you buy it soon, they will ship it for free. You couldn’t ask for a better cardio workout and you can keep in shape during the winter months, when normally that is when you start packing on the pounds. Forget that!
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