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Yummy…

Under: Health & Fitness @ 9:23 pm on Thursday, 04.6.06

In an ideal world, you’d steer clear of greasy, high-fat takeout and pack yourself a perfectly balanced lunch to bring to work every day of the week. In the real world, brown bagging can be an extra hassle that you can’t always handle. Telle me about it … every night I get lazy preparing tomorrow’s lunch and end up opting for some extremely unhealthy -not to mention close to disgusting - lunch! anyway, thanks to fitness magazine, below is our guide to the healthiest sandwiches, soups, and salads at our favorite grab-and-go lunch spots - provided one is near you!

Cosi

Best Salad: Shanghai Chicken Salad with Low-Fat Ginger Soy Dressing
295 calories
11 g fat, saturated fat amount unavailable
675 mg sodium
6 g fiber
27 g protein
Best Sandwich: Hummus & Fresh Veggies
432 calories
8 g fat, saturated fat amount unavailable
1,128 mg sodium
8 g fiber
13 g protein
Best Soup: Chicken Noodle, regular size
116 calories
4 g fat, saturated fat amount unavailable
818 mg sodium
1 g fiber
10 g protein
Worst Overall: Tuna Melt sandwich
1,012 calories
60 g fat, saturated amount fat unavailable
1,948 mg sodium
4 g fiber
64 g protein
Takeout Tip: Yes, the bread comes free with your soup or salad, but spring for an apple or bag of baby carrots instead. Each slice of Cosi’s famous bread adds 265 calories and 740 mg sodium to your meal (Read on …)

I Cannot Stand …

Under: Random Thoughts, Uncategorized @ 1:52 pm on Thursday, 04.6.06

People who:

1) Slurp their coffee…

2) Chew with their mouths open…

3) Chew Big Red gum…

4) Crack their gum…

5) Make too much noise eating chips…

6) Say ’Like’ every other word…

7) Nag ALL the time, and I mean ALL the time…

There are many other things that I cannot stand, but this should do for now! And yes, Sayeda! Believe it or not I love many things…I just have not gotten around jotting them down just yet … at least not here!

 

Oh My God!

Under: How Outrageous, Uncategorized @ 11:47 am on Thursday, 04.6.06

Is this ever going to end?! Ever???

Overreacting?

Under: Around The World, Uncategorized @ 11:26 am on Wednesday, 04.5.06

Last night, at around 6:30 pm police officers pulled over a 75 year-old Hasidic driver in Brooklyn for talking on his cellphone while driving in Borough Park. According to police, the driver became uncooperative and was arrested. As he was being put into a police van, two other men attempted to intervene and were also arrested. Soon after, hundreds of Orthodox Jewish protesters surrounded a police station house chanting “No justice no peace,” lighted bonfires and set a police car on fire.

“Residents of the neighborhood said Mr. Schick (the old man arrested) is known to be deaf in one ear. Many said they suspected that he did not hear the police officers’ requests for his license and registration when they first stopped his car.” I can totally envision the scenario and I understand that this may be the case. Police officers tend to be very aggresive at times, so it’s quite possible that they were aggressive with the old man, but does this really warrant such reaction? No justice No peace? they sure are on the wrong side of the ocean!

So Comforting to Know…

Under: Around The World, How Outrageous @ 10:02 am on Wednesday, 04.5.06

A deputy press secretary for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was charged with using a computer to seduce a child after authorities said he struck up sexual conversations with an undercover detective posing as a 14-year-old girl.

This guy is Brian Doyle, who is 55 years old and is the fourth-ranking offical in the department’s public affaris office! He was expected to be placed on administrative leave Wednesday.

Doyle found the teenager’s profile online and began having sexually explicit conversations with her on the Internet on March 14. That is so outrageous! He knew that she was 14 years old! He sent her pornographic movie clips, as well as non-sexual photos of himself, officials said.

During online conversations, Doyle revealed his name, who he worked for and offered his office and government-issued cell phone numbers, the sheriff’s office said.

This is absolutely dispicable, to say the very least! It is so comforting to know that the fourth ranking official in our homeland security is being held in a child-sex sting!

Let Go…

Under: Thought of The Day @ 11:20 pm on Monday, 04.3.06

Let go of that nagging feeling that something could go wrong. For whatever may happen, you can always choose a way to move forward.Let go of your resentment and anger over things that are beyond your control. Do the very best with where you are, with what you have, and that will be more than enough.

Let go of the pain you carry from things that happened long ago. Allow yourself to experience the glorious freedom of forgiveness.

Let go of the needs that you don’t really need, that keep your life so anxious and complicated. Find real fulfillment not in getting, but in being.

Let go of the regrets, the disappointments and distress. Choose to follow the very best of the possibilities that beckon you forward.

Let go of all the excuses you have for not living fully. Give beauty and meaning to the life and the world that you’re in right now.

– Ralph Marston

No Kidding…

Under: Around The World, Health & Fitness, Uncategorized @ 11:53 am on Monday, 04.3.06

Sexy media a siren call to promiscuity?  I could’ve told you this without any studies! but it’s always good to have ’scientific’ data backing up your ‘claim.’

Notice the mention of parents not talking to their kids about sex? I guess it’s not only in China and Arab countries…

Sexually charged music, magazines, TV and movies push youngsters into intercourse at an earlier age, perhaps by acting as kind of virtual peer that tells them everyone else is doing it, a study said Monday.

“This is the first time we’ve shown that the more kids are exposed to sex in media the earlier they have sex,” said Jane Brown of the University of North Carolina, chief author of the report.

Previous research had been limited to television, said the study which looked at 1,017 adolescents when they were aged 12 to 14 and again two years later. They were checked on their exposure during the two years to 264 items — movies, TV shows, music and magazines — which were analyzed for their sexual content.

In general it found that the highest exposure levels led to more sexual activity, with white teens in the group 2.2 times more likely to have had intercourse at ages 14 to 16 than similar youngsters who had the least exposure.

The effect was not as pronounced for blacks, the study said, perhaps because the black youngsters in the study were already more sexually experienced than the whites were when the research began and thus were less influenced by media exposure over the two-year period.

The teenage pregnancy rate in the United States is three to 10 times higher than that found in other industrialized nations, making that and exposure to sexually transmitted infections a major public health concern, the study said. (Read on …)

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