“Well-dressed cute girls mixing god-awful drinks”
Shortly after he returned from his volunteer stint at the Red Cross today, Number One Son ambled into my office and greeted me with a cheery, “Hey Mom, wanna see something disgusting?” Kids are so cute. But of course, I had to go see what he had up on his computer...
read moreFTC Gives Kinoki Foot Pads the Boot
I missed this bit of news from early November: For Release: 11/04/2010 At FTC’s Request, Judge Imposes Ban on Marketers of “Detox” Foot Pads Advertising Claimed “Ancient Japanese Secret” Could Treat Medical Conditions At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a federal...
read moreScience-Based Medicine on Bill Clinton’s Diet
In the wake of his well-publicized bout with cardiovascular disease, Bill Clinton has given up McDonald’s (good) for a mostly-vegan diet. The former prez has lost 24 lbs. and is now approx. the same weight as he was in high school. His current diet is quite restrictive,...
read moreMeet Olga Kotelko
The NYT headline, “The Flying Nonagenarian” pretty much says it all. She picked up softball again after retiring from teaching in 1984 — slow-pitch, but pretty competitive. (“We went for blood.”) And then one day when she was 77, a teammate suggested she might enjoy...
read moreHappy Turkey Day (Almost)!
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-OFXUaMIv8] For the record, we’re having Italian… My kids got bored with turkey years ago, so we’ve eaten non-traditional fare ever since. C’ya Friday!
read moreThe Worst Foods in America – 2011 Edition
Slashfood has a “sneak peek” of 10 of the 20 “Worst Foods in America” from the 2011 update of Eat This, Not That by David Zinczenko and Matt Goulding. It’s not a pretty sight. Here are the 10 winners (or losers, depending on how you see these...
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