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Dogs playing tag in the living room. My Shih Tzu Snickers playing with my moms Husky Cookie..

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In the last 30 years, childhood obesity has tripled in the United States, and if no action is taken today's children will be the first generation in recorded history to be less healthy than their parents. Hundreds of lifestyle and culture changes have combined to effect this change, and hundreds of action steps will need to be taken to combat it. One important step should happen in schools. Many children eat two meals a day at school, and many more eat at least one. They deserve the best, and schools are just starting to understand that.

While some districts are completely overhauling their school lunch program - Boulder, Colorado among them - others don't have the resources to make such big changes so fast. Installing healthy vending machines can solve both problems at once: a substantial and immediate change that generates revenue for bigger changes down the road. What's more, healthy vending machines in schools can help students build life-long habits and learn about healthy lifestyles.

Choosing the Right Snacks

Along with hot lunches, most schools offer a number of other snack options to students via vending machines and snack bars. This is to help the school make money, but should such enterprises be done at the cost of student health? Nachos, candy bars, and cookies are hardly fair for lunch, but kids don't know any better; when given the option, they go for what tastes good. Even adults are guilty of that, so no one would expect more self-denial from kids. However, recent brain research suggests that even into the teen years the frontal lobe - the part of the brain that regulates self-control and judgment - is being re-structured and developed. That means it is even harder for young people to resist the urge to have a candy bar than it is for an average adult. Therefore, it is even more critical that responsible grown-ups make important choices for students that will help them eat right now and learn to choose to do so in the future.

A healthy vending machine in the school building is one way to start that process. Filled completely with nutritious options, kids can learn that "healthy" doesn't mean "gross" and can find themselves coming to enjoy the taste and effects of fueling their bodies with something substantial. That is a lesson that will pay dividends for the rest of their lives.

Multi-Media Health Education

Today's youth are a technology generation, and no doubt about it. Texting, gaming, social networking, and YouTubing all comprise the language kids speak, however foreign that language is to parents. To educate them effectively, anyone with a message for students needs to communicate in a way they understand. No one would guess a vending machine could do that.

Some innovative healthy vending machines include LCD screens that come with educational information both on the snacks in the machine and on healthy tips in general. With state-of-the-art technology and bold graphics, these machines market themselves to young people, but instead of deceiving consumers into buying something they don't need, they encourage them to make the best possible choice when it comes to snacking at school.

Generating Profit for Extra-Curricular Activities

The LCD screens also serve as valuable advertisement space that can be sold to augment even more the profit of owning a vending machine. The reason why many schools have soda machines and snack machines in spite of the obvious health concerns is they are so lucrative that administrators feel it is worth the risk of childhood obesity in order to avoid cutting back already tight budgets on opportunities kids need. How much better to retain the profit and encourage student health? In fact, those extra curricular activities that need the funds are often exactly the same ones that get kids exercising and socializing - the ones that teach them how to live healthy lives outside of school as well as in it. Who knew a vending machine could be so powerful?

However valuable such an investment will be, it still might be a hard sell at the beginning. Working with a trusted vending franchise that specializes in health-food machines is important to avoid mistakes that lead to unsuccessful experiences. For instance, if a Snickers bar is sold next to a granola bar, it's rare that a teenager will be able to resist the former. In fact, having unhealthy snacks available at all, even in another machine, will lead to smaller profit margins than if only nutritious options are presented. That's just common sense, remembering the under-developed frontal lobe of adolescents and children. On the other hand, if someone's hungry for a little something and they look into a window that offers pita chips next to vitamin water next to whole grain honey graham sticks, something is bound to look tasty. If a district is interested in going healthy, it's going to be a commitment. The process of throwing out old junk food habits and creating new one may take a while, but it's worth it.

Your kids will thank you.

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Most of us, who work in the corporate world, spend about 8 -10 hours in the office and the inhabitants of the office are our co-workers, with whom we spend almost one half of the working life. Cut to the holiday season, you definitely need to show you appreciation and wish them well .But, the challenge is what gift is appropriate for your male or female co-worker in terms of price and also whom you are giving to as seniority, professionalism and office politics can come into play.

Now since the most of the times you would be giving gifts to your co-workers who are large in number, which means you definitely set yourself a price range as even small numbers can add up a lot when the number of co-workers is huge.

Remember a few golden rules of gift etiquettes in the office and these help you select a nice gift. Set up a price range as expensive gifts at the office can make others uncomfortable. No personal or religious flavor things and always acknowledge the gift that you have received.

Here are a few ideas that make for inexpensive gifts for co-workers.

Get a Christmas Ornament with a year and space for the name of each co-worker on it. A never fail gift for the co-workers.

Another favorite and great gift is a bag of candies and snacks like snickers, Hershey kisses. Make hand made tags for each bag and I am sure your co-worker will love it. I have had lottery tickets given to me as gift. Though, not my favorite but people were happy as it is a change from the traditional gifts.

Homemade Goodies or foods would be good idea especially like bake a cheesecake or bring a turkey. Or home made rum balls. Another favorite is wood crafts and handmade special effect cards printed out from a lot of websites online.

Another thing to remember if you are buying individual gifts for your co-workers make sure to buy different gifts for your male and female co-workers.

For male co-workers, the best is getting each of them a coupon for two rounds of beers at a local pub after hours and they love that. Starbucks gift cards still holds to be the best as it is inexpensive, though I must say it is for both the sexes. Another favorite with the guys is cookies, make some big sized cookies at home and pack them in a nice bowl you get at dollar store.

Inexpensive gifts for female co-workers?? The bets gift is body lotion from body shop. They have it in all price ranges and in all sizes, so choose the one that fits your price range. Another gift which is appropriate is the movie tickets or a blockbuster gift card or a popcorn gift basket.

Choose wisely as it can get tricky giving gifts co-workers but make sure to give gifts on Christmas or other occasions like winning a project or completing a big assignment.

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How to start getting rid of the stomach fat is a question which seems to be more complicated than a long mathematical equation. And it may get complicated and difficult to solve just like a mathematical equation IF the rules applied are not correct.

The quickest and Easiest way to lose fat is relative to what you consider quick and easy. While there are no true fixes, there are definitely strategies and rules that you can apply to get your goals the best way.

First of all lets start off with the first rule..

1. To lose weight you must create a caloric deficit in your body.in simple words, you must eat less calories than you are burning in a 24 hour time period.

2. Get good at rule number 1 and you wont need anything else.

Calories are burnt doing everything and anything. Working, walking, brushing your teeth, typing on your keyboard,sitting idle... EVERYTHING. Even thinking burns calories.Thought requires glucose transfer and neurochemical production and synapses to fire. All require calories to be burnt to make it happen.

This does not mean that I recommend thinking your way to lose fat. Although you are burning calories when thinking, its not an efficient way to lose fat. Efficiency is time spent vs. results received.

There are two ways of creating a caloric deficit:

1) Increase activity

2) Lower calorie intake

Although you can use either method mentioned above, it is better to use a combination of both.

I am giving you a few tips on how to use both to do so...

1) INCREASE ACTIVITY First of all, you need to get moving. Do high intensity exercises, high intensity exercises has been shown to beat the pants off low intensity, long duration carsio. it quite simply gives you the most calorie burn for the time you spend exercising.

A person preforming 20 minutes of high intensity exercises will burn more calories than someone performing low intensity exercise at the end of a 24 hours time frame. This is due to metabolic changes in the body, including exercises post post oxygen consumption. Basically this amounts to a higher metabolic rate all day long. At the end of the day you can easily create an extra 300-500 calorie burn through high intensity exercise. Add to this the deficit we are going to create with lowering intake, and you"ll be ready for swim suit season in no time.

Lets take a look At a second way of creating a caloric deficit.

2) LOWERING CALORIE INTAKE- Now, depending on your personal experience, this may seems like the tougher of the two ways to create the deficit. What I"ll do here is give you the easiest and most effective way to lower calorie intake. Lowering calorie intake does not mean suffering. It means making wiser choices about your total intake. This could be as easy as exchanging regular sugar filled beverages for the diet versions.

A pound of body fat is equivalent to about 3,500 calories. So if you cut 100 calories a day by reducing the intake of calories plus the 300 approx. calories burnt by working out for 31 days, you're cutting 12,400 calories--or about approx. 4 pounds. WOW!

Losing 4 pound a month doesn't require drastic changes in your eating habits. It can be as simple as eating two egg rolls with your Chinese stir-fry instead of three. Here are 100 painless ways to cut 100 or more calories a day. As a bonus, they all reduce fat or sugar, which means, calorie for calorie, you're getting more vitamins and minerals.

1. Spread 1 tablespoon of all-fruit jam on your toast rather than 1 1/2 tablespoons of butter.

2. Replace 1 cup of whole milk with 1/2 cup of nonfat milk.

3. Eat 2 poached eggs instead of 2 fried eggs.

4. Replace 1/2 cup of granola with 2 cups of Cheerios.

5. Instead of using whole milk and eggs to prepare 2 slices of French toast, use nonfat milk and egg whites.

6. Snack on an orange and a banana instead of a Snickers candy bar.

7. Munch on 35 pretzel sticks instead of 1 ounce of dry-roasted peanuts.

8. Replace 1 cup of sweetened applesauce with 1 cup of unsweetened applesauce.

9. On your lamb-and-vegetable kabob, replace 2 of the 4 chunks of meat with fresh whole mushrooms.

10. Dip an artichoke in 1 tablespoon of low-fat mayonnaise instead of 1 1/2 tablespoons of regular mayonnaise.

11. Steam your asparagus rather than sauté it in 1 tablespoon of butter or oil.

12. Instead of a 5-ounce glass of wine, opt for cherry-flavored sparkling water.

13. For a chewy snack, have 1/2 cup of dried fruit rather than 9 caramels.

14. Replace 3 slices of bacon with 3 slices of Light & Lean Canadian bacon.

15. Eat a Lender's egg bagel instead of a Sara Lee egg bagel.

16. Select 1 cup of home-style baked beans instead of an equal serving of baked beans with franks.

17. Replace 2 biscuits with 2 dinner rolls.

18. When making a sandwich, use 2 slices of Roman Light 7-grain bread instead of Pepperidge Farm wheat bread.

19. Eat 1/2 cup of steamed fresh broccoli instead of 1/2 cup of frozen broccoli in cheese sauce.

20. Make a burrito with 1/2 cup of fat-free re fried beans and 1 ounce of nonfat cheese instead of the same amount of traditional re fried beans and cheese.

21. Replace an apple muffin with a high-fiber English muffin.

22. Reduce a typical serving of chocolate cake (1/8 of a two-layer cake) by one-third.

23. Switch from 1 cup of whole-milk hot chocolate to 1 cup of steamed 1% milk flavored with a dash of almond extract.

24. Replace 1 cup of caramel-coated popcorn with 2 1/2 cups of air-popped popcorn.

25. Switch from 1/2 cup of yogurt-covered raisins to 1/2 cup of plain raisins.

26. Snack on 1 cup of nonfat plain yogurt instead of 1 cup of custard-style yogurt.

27. Top your celery sticks with 2 tablespoons of fat-free cream cheese instead of 3 tablespoons of regular cream cheese.

28. Replace 2 fried-chicken drumsticks with 2 roasted drumsticks and a cup of peas and carrots.

29. Instead of eating 5 chocolate-chip cookies, savor the taste of 2.

30. Lighten your 2 cups of coffee with 2 tablespoons of evaporated nonfat milk instead of 2 tablespoons of half-and-half.

31. Replace a 12-ounce can of cola with a 12-ounce can of diet cola.

32. Thicken your cream sauce with 1 percent milk and corn starch instead of a roux of butter and flour.

33. At the appetizer tray, choose 4 fresh raw mushrooms instead of 4 batter-fried mushrooms.

34. Use 2 tablespoons of fat-free sour cream instead of regular sour cream (on baked potatoes or in stroganoff). If done twice in the day, 100 calories will be cut.

35. Reduce the size of your steak from 4 1/2 ounces to 3 ounces.

36. Grill a cheese sandwich with nonstick cooking spray instead of margarine.

37. Replace 1 cup of chocolate ice cream with 2/3 cup of nonfat chocolate frozen yogurt.

38. Snack on 2 ounces of oven-baked potato chips instead of regular potato chips.

39. Instead of topping your salad with an ounce of croutons, get your crunch from 1/4 cup of chopped celery.

40. Instead of 1 cup of macaroni salad, eat 3 1/2 cups of spinach salad with 2 tablespoons of low-calorie dressing.

41. Cut the peanut butter on your sandwich from 2 tablespoons to 1 tablespoon.

42. Serve your turkey with 1/4 cup of cranberry sauce instead of 1/2 cup.

43. Order a sandwich on cracked wheat bread instead of a croissant.

44. Complement your hamburger with 1 1/4 ounces of oven-baked tortilla chips instead of a side of fries.

45. Split an apple Danish with a friend rather than eat the entire thing.

46. Order 2 slices of cheese pizza instead of 2 slices of pepperoni pizza.

47. Grab a Dole Fresh Lites Cherry frozen fruit bar instead of a Sunkist Coconut frozen fruit bar.

48. Snack on 1/2 cup of fruit cocktail canned in water instead of 1 cup of fruit cocktail canned in heavy syrup.

49. Switch from 1 cup of fruit punch to 1 cup of sparkling water flavored with 2 teaspoons of concentrated orange juice.

50. Instead of eating garlic bread made with butter, spread baked garlic cloves on French bread.

51. Rather than snack on 1 cup of grapefruit canned in syrup, peel and section 1 small grapefruit.

52. Dip your chips in 1/2 cup of salsa instead of 1/2 cup of guacamole.

53. Switch from 1/2 cup of Frozen Glade butter pecan ice cream to Brewers butter pecan ice cream.

54. Use 1 tablespoon of mayonnaise in your tuna salad instead of 2 tablespoons.

55. Hold the tartar sauce on your fish sandwich, and squeeze lemon on it instead.

56. Replace 3 fish sticks with 3 ounces of grilled halibut.

57. In sandwich spreads or salads, use 3 teaspoons of mayonnaise instead of 4 teaspoons of mayonnaise.

58. Use 2 tablespoons of light pancake syrup instead of 2 tablespoons of regular syrup.

59. Top your pasta with 1 cup of marinara sauce instead of 1/2 cup of Alfredo sauce.

60. For each serving of pasta salad you make, reduce the oil or mayonnaise by 1 tablespoon.

61. Replace 1/2 cup of peaches canned in extra-heavy syrup with 1/2 cup of peaches canned in water.

62. Prepare 1/2 cup of steamed peas and cauliflower instead of frozen peas and cauliflower in cream sauce.

63. Cut back on sampling during cooking. The following "tastes" have 100 calories: 4 tablespoons of beef stroganoff, 3 tablespoons of homemade chocolate pudding, 2 tablespoons of chocolate-chip cookie dough.

64. At an Italian restaurant, snack on a large bread stick instead of a slice of garlic bread.

65. Eat a 3/4-cup serving of pudding made with skim milk rather than a 1-cup serving of pudding made with whole milk.

66. Choose 1/2 cup of brown rice instead of 1 serving of frozen rice pilaf with green beans or 1 serving of frozen Oriental rice and vegetables.

67. Compliment your sandwich with 3/4 cup of split-pea soup instead of 1 cup of chunky bean and ham soup.

68. Replace 3 tablespoons of strawberry topping on your ice cream with 3/4 pint of fresh strawberries.

69. Pass on the second helping of mashed potatoes.

70. Eat 3 grilled prawns with cocktail sauce instead of 3 breaded and fried prawns.

71. Make a pie crust with 1 cup of Grape-Nuts cereal, 1/4 cup of concentrated apple juice and 1 tablespoon of cinnamon, instead of using a traditional graham-cracker crust. You'll save 100 calories per slice.

72. Replace 8 sticks of regular chewing gum with sugar-free chewing gum.

73. Snack on a papaya instead of a bag of M&Ms.

74. Substitute 3 ounces of scallops for 3 ounce of lean beef in your stir-fry.

75. Rather than spread 4 tablespoons of cream cheese on two slices of raisin bread, dip the bread in 1/2 cup nonfat apple-cinnamon yogurt.

76. Munch on 1 cup of frozen grapes instead of an ice cream sandwich.

77. Rather than drink a strawberry milkshake, make a smoothie of 2/3 cup of low-fat milk, 1/2 cup of strawberries and 1/2 a banana.

78. Replace 2 brownies with 2 fig bars.

79. Eat 2 meatballs instead of 4 with your spaghetti.

80. On a hot day, quench your thirst with a glass of ice water with lemon or mint instead of a can of light beer.

81. Eat 1/2 cup of black beans instead of 3 ounces of roast beef.

82. Replace 1 1/2 tablespoons of I Can't Believe It's Not Butter spread with 1 1/2 tablespoons of Nucoa Smart Beat margarine.

83. Choose 1 serving of vegetarian lasagna instead of lasagna with meat.

84. Eat 2 Kellogg's Nutria-Grain bars instead of 2 Kellogg's Pop-Tarts.

85. Drizzle 3 tablespoons of low-calorie French dressing on your salad instead of 2 tablespoons of blue cheese dressing.

86. Replace 1 large flour tortilla with 1 six-inch corn tortilla.

87. Eat a turkey sandwich instead of a chicken salad sandwich.

88. Choose 4 1/2 ounces of tuna packed in water instead of 4 1/2 ounces of tuna packed in oil.

89. At Burger King, have a Whopper Jr. Sandwich with regular fries instead of a Whopper With Cheese Sandwich.

90. Order your Quarter Pounder without cheese.

91. At Jack in the Box, eat a regular taco instead of a super taco.

92. Fix 1 cup of turkey chili with beans rather than regular chili with no beans.

93. Use 1 cup of fat-free cottage cheese instead of regular cottage cheese.

94. Order a sandwich with barbecued chicken instead of barbecued pork.

95. Replace 1 cup of corn with 1 cup of carrots.

96. Reduce your helping of turkey stuffing from 1 cup to 2/3 cup.

97. Have a single scoop of ice cream instead of a double scoop.

98. Replace 2 ounces of corn chips with 2 ounces of SnackWell's wheat crackers.

99. Eat 1 hot dog at the baseball game instead of 2.

100. Shred 2 ounces of fat-free cheddar cheese on nachos instead of regular cheddar.

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If you are heavier than you want to be, you probably think that you want to lose weight. Think again. If you truly desire to permanently transform your body into a slimmer, more compact vehicle in which to experience life's journey, there's a good chance your real desire isn't to lose weight. It's to weigh less.

One of the most common reasons people seek out the services of a nutritionist is for weight loss. This certainly is true in my holistic nutritional counseling practice, and it's part of what I love best about my work. Helping people take control of their food consumption and release unwanted pounds is a privilege that gives me great satisfaction. However, what I really love best is not helping my clients transform their bodies for the short term, but for the long haul. My aim is to empower my clients with the experience and understanding needed to make lasting changes that bear fruit year after year.

If you are overweight, you are well aware of how the extra pounds you are lugging around place a burden on your body, your health and your self-esteem. Wanting to drop that padding is a sign of wanting to be healthy and love yourself more. But think about this. Is losing weight your ultimate goal? Or is it something else?

Let's put it this way. If you had a choice between losing weight and weighing less, which would you choose?

When I ask my clients this question, it becomes clear that the goal is not simply to succeed at "losing" weight. The goal is to become a different size person altogether, to inhabit a leaner and lighter body for life.

Achieving this goal entails more than going on a diet. Deeper, long-lasting changes are required. These include changes in the daily choices you make about what foods to put into your body, changes in the way you relate to food overall and changes in the level of physical exercise you engage in on a regular basis.

If you make these changes properly, you are guaranteed to lose weight - almost as a side effect, a bonus - whether or not you ever go on a diet again. In fact, going "on" a diet implies that one day you will go "off" it, setting you up to regain the pounds you so diligently shed through hard efforts, once you return to "normal" life. (We've all been there and the jury is in: diets don't work.) You don't need to "go on a diet," you need to transform your diet, as a whole, in order to achieve long-term physical transformation.

Body weight is a direct result of eating and exercise habits. Even if you have a thyroid problem or other medical condition that affects your metabolism, to a large degree your food and fitness choices are still driving the results reflected by the mirror and your waistline. You know this. If you want a lighter body, your eating and exercise habits must change at a fundamental level, individualized to your needs.

A lighter body - YOUR lighter body - is sustained on a different quality and amount of food than your heavier body. Your lighter body also engages in a greater amount of physical activity than your heavier body. That's the bottom line.

Along with moving your body more, if you want to weigh less than you do now, you need to eat differently than you have been up to now. This is the only way your shape and size will change for good. To think otherwise would be insanity. Did you know one definition of insanity is "to keep doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result"? Not going to happen! If you continue your old habits, nothing will change.

The way to weigh less is not to go on a diet but to change your diet. And this means changing your relationship to food. Because ultimately, your weight is not just a function of the kinds of foods you eat, but also a function of the way that you eat them: when and how and in what feeling state of mind. That's where, in my work, the counseling component of "nutritional counseling" takes on a fuller meaning. Helping my weight loss clients understand and heal the roots of their emotional eating is of great benefit in supporting their recovery and transformation. When it comes to weight, emotional factors are at least equally important as biochemical factors.

Addressing the biochemical piece is where cleansing comes in. Cleansing, which entails removing all artificial and processed foods from the diet and replacing them with fresh, water-rich fruits and vegetables, legumes, whole grains, nuts and seeds, is different from dieting which focuses on calorie restriction alone. I believe it is critical to remove certain sub-optimal substances (such as food additives, wheat and sugar) from your dietary repertoire for a period of time, in order to break free of physically needing them.

Yes, I said physically needing them. It's not all in your head: many, if not most food cravings and addictions are real, biochemical responses. You're not just "weak" when you can't resist buying and eating that cupcake or pint of ice cream or fast-food burger or entire bag of spicy tortilla chips. These foods contain chemical ingredients and specific combinations of flavors that trip the pleasure pathway in your brain - the dopamine pathway - which is your biological trigger for addiction.

What foods trip the dopamine pathway? Refined sugar, in all forms. Wheat, especially in white flour form, and other grains that contain gluten (rye, barley, spelt). Food combos of fat+sugar (candy bars, cookies, pies) and fat+carb+salt (pizza, french fries, chips). Numerous man-made additives and flavor-enhancers. Human beings are neurochemically wired to respond to these substances with an intense pleasure response, followed by craving for more....and more...and more! The result: substance abuse, presenting as food abuse. Food abuse takes many forms: compulsive eating, bingeing, overeating, eating to soothe emotions, eating to numb stress or unpleasant feelings, continuing eating even when part of you wants to stop, etc.

Food addiction is, perhaps, the most insidious addiction in our society. Because despite the fact that so many people suffer from its consequences, consuming junk food, processed foods and, indeed, overeating on any food (big gulps, big grabs and all-you-can-eat buffet, for example) is accepted, promoted and condoned. After all, we have a food industry to support! And believe me, food scientists are hard at work every day creating new "designer drugs" to keep you hooked for life. Big Macs, Doritos and Snickers bars were only the beginning.

However, take heart and know this: you are not a helpless victim. Far from it. In spite of all the temptation and media messages urging you to succumb, you still get to choose what you put into your mouth every day. With the proper education, information, support and resolve, you can turn your diet, your health and your weight around at any time. Yes, you can!

Doing a cleanse provides a break from old habits and teaches you how to "just say no" to your food addictions. A dietary detox or cleanse re-educates your taste buds, your brain and your entire body, showing you by example how brilliantly fresh, natural foods revitalize your system, give you energy and make you feel good. When you eliminate all processed, fake and industrial foods from your diet and spend a period of time eating only real foods that grow in or on the earth, you will start to see results in just days. After a few weeks, the results will be profound, even life-changing. You will learn by experience that the foods which nourished your ancestors - not just for centuries, but for tens of thousands of years - are the same foods upon which your body is designed to, and will thrive. You will start eating to evolve.

There are plenty of cleanses out there, some more extreme than others. I recommend choosing a program that feels doable to you, because the only cleanse that will work is the one you complete! I suggest that you avoid strict fasts like the Master Cleanse that start and end without safely transitioning you back into eating. Those programs can help you lose weight but usually don't support "weighing less" for the long term.

The program you select may be a juice-rich program like (my new hero) Joe Cross's fabulous reboot, or it may be something that gives you wider food options. I offer my clients two fantastic cleansing programs: the popular four-week Ultimate Detox Diet developed by my mentor, the late Teri Kerr, and my own 21-day Rainbow Cleanse™, which weaves principles of color healing and chakra awareness into a gorgeous diet of fresh, nutrient-dense foods. In addition, I provide coaching for people interested in following the protocols of my friend and colleague Natalia Rose, author of The Raw Food Detox Diet and Detox For Women.

All of the above recommended cleanse programs are geared towards making the lasting changes that ensure permanent results, long after you have left the actual cleanse behind. Like a diet, cleansing will help you to lose weight - most of my clients release ten pounds on average over three to four weeks. But, even more importantly, cleansing will teach you how to practice and embrace new healthy diet-lifestyle behaviors. Reshaping your relationship with food and eating is what takes you to the final goal that lies beyond losing weight: weighing less, for life.

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Deep fried candy bars sound mouthwatering to some people and rather unappetizing to others. Whether or not you have tried this unusual treat, it might interest you to learn a few facts about this dish, as well as its history.

Candy bars can be fried in the batter you normally use for fried chicken recipes, fish, or sausages, or you can use a coconut batter instead. Candy bars are chilled before they are battered. This stops the chocolate from melting into the hot fat.

This dish originated at a fried fish shop in Scotland as a novelty item but it soon because really popular. The Haven Chip Bar in Stonehaven is said to have invented this recipe in 1995. Stonehaven is near Aberdeen on the northeast coast of Scotland.

Three hundred fried fish shops were interviewed in 2004 and twenty two percent of them sold fried candy bars. An additional seventeen percent had sold them in the past.

Three quarters of these shops had only been selling them for the last three years and average sales were twenty three bars a week, although ten outlets sold between fifty and two hundred every week. The average price was one dollar and three quarters of the purchasers were children.

Deep Fried Candy Around the Globe

A British cafe called "Oh My Cod" in Bangkok, Thailand, lists this delicacy on their menu. This item was added to the menu as a joke at first but soon became very popular with locals and tourists. Reiver's Fish Bar in Scotland sells deep fried Easter eggs and along with Snickers bars cooked this way and they are very popular in the United States.

You can get deep-fried candy bars at the Bondi Surf Seafood Fish and Chip Shop in Sydney, Australia. The chocolate bar is coated in coconut batter, deep fried, and then sprinkled with powdered sugar.

New Zealand also has a number of outlets selling them. You can get deep fried Mars bars in Auckland's Bonzo Burger and deep fried Moro bars in the Acropolic fish and chip shop in Wellington.

New Zealanders love deep fried confectionary, especially Moro bars, which are sold in most fish and chip shops where there are a lot of tourists or a university nearby. Dunedin is the area in New Zealand with the most fried fish stores offering deep fried candy and they have been sold there since the late 1990s.

Recipe for Deep Fried Candy

Combine a cup of sifted all purpose flour with a teaspoon of salt and three quarters of a cup of water until the mixture is smooth. Let it stand at room temperature for half an hour. Stir quarter of a teaspoon of baking powder into the batter.

Heat some peanut oil in your deep fryer until it reaches 350 degrees F, then dip four caramel-covered candy bars into the batter and fry them in the hot oil for a few minutes, or until they are golden brown and crispy. Drain on paper towels and serve warm.

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Noir!

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Snickers, at 6 days old, chirping at Cookie for a feed!

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As a tax practitioner who files Sales and Use tax returns in 45 states, I'm on all the mailing lists for each state and get notices when the state (and sometimes local) tax laws are about to change. One such notice came in the other day and I felt compelled to share it here with you.

I just received a notice from the Illinois Department of Revenue announcing some really bizarre changes to their sales tax laws that will take effect September 1st. (Disclosure: I have clients for whom we file Sales and Use Tax returns in Illinois, but their business has nothing to do with the items listed here - I just thought these were silly and wanted to pass them along!)

The Changes

First up, is the change to the tax on candy. Yes. The Illinois Candy Tax. According to the notice I received, the new Sales Tax form (ST-1) will include a separate line item for candy. So, now, candy must be taxed at the general tax rate, which varied depending on whether you are an out-of-state vendor, or based on location if you are an in-state vendor. But, lest you get confused as to the definition of "candy", Illinois clarifies this for you.

The following items are considered candy by the Illinois Department of Revenue:

chocolate bars, yogurt or chocolate covered nuts or fruit, honey coated nuts, caramel popcorn, lollipops, snack mixes containing yogurt or chocolate, breath mints (thank goodness), and gum. Nothing wrong yet.

Like every good (open to interpretation) government program, there are exceptions to the "what is considered candy rule" and Illinois says that chocolate covered cookies, yogurt covered pretzels, "candy" that contains flour, plain dried fruits and nuts with no added sweeteners are NOT candy and, therefore, are taxed at the lower "food" rate.

As a guide to help consumers and retailers to make sure that they have not violated this rule, IDOR provides a helpful rule of thumb. "You must check the ingredients label or package. If an item contains flour or requires refrigeration, it remains taxed as food (low rate). If an item contains sugar, it is taxed as general merchandise (high rate)."

There are similar clarifications on soft drinks and which soft drinks qualify for the lower rate (food) and which are taxed at the higher rate (general). Basically, the determination is the same - if you look at the label and see that the soft drink contains milk or juice without sweeteners (sugar or artificial), it is taxed at the lower rate (food). Otherwise, it is taxed at the higher, general, rate. And don't forget the special Chicago Soft Drink Tax - it's also clearly defined.

The Ramifications

Silly, silly, silly. As a former "insider" in another state department of revenue - not Illinois, I can just imagine the ridiculous amount of time wasted on developing these rules.

First, I can imagine legislators considering the hoary problem of the "Candy Tax Loophole" and spending valuable floor time debating it.

Then, I can imagine their staffers calling frantically to the Illinois Dept of Revenue asking for face time with Commissioner Brian Hamer, or one of his staffers. Because government policy makers are often fresh-out-of-college compassion-bots, I can imagine the flavor of that meeting. "Gentlepeople, we have a serious problem with the Illinois tax code. We need your help to strengthen our language. In the development of the regs, legislative intent was to clearly define that chocolate covered pretzels should get a tax break but that chocolate covered nuts should not. The citizens of Illinois are dying from eating Goobers and Raisinettes. We have to get them eating chocolate covered pretzels, immediately."

Not to mention the 2 cents difference in the tax on the two different items. Let's analyze what's going on here. Suppose that in the entire state of Illinois, during the course of a year, consumers purchase a hundred million soft drink cans at roughly a dollar apiece. If the difference in the tax rate is 2 cents, consumers will be paying into the Illinois Treasury approximately $2 million in additional tax - just on soft drinks. Sounds like a lot of money doesn't it? I assure you that an enormous amount of that additional revenue was consumed by the state in trying to apply the law change. For example, in the meeting I described above, there were probably 20-25 state employees involved over several hours worth of meetings. Then there was time involved in drafting the new regulations, developing the methodology for collection and distribution, advertising the changes - as required by other law, mail outs to who-knows-how-many tax preparers like myself. Then, computer systems changes were required. Add to that developing and printing of the new forms, getting approvals at every step of the way and final signoffs by Commissioner Hamer and his team, and all of a sudden, two million bucks - gone.

Now, let's say it's not a hundred million cans, but a billion cans and twenty million in new taxes. Now, you're talking about a tax increase that an Illinois politician can sink some teeth into, like a Snickers bar (high tax).

In future articles, I'll pass along some of the dumbest meetings I ever sat in. And, I'll talk about some of the dumbest people I ever fired (names will be changed to protect the innocent). When I watched Dragnet when I was a little kid, I thought they said at the end "Names have been changed to protect the idiots."

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Ahurrrr~! This is just me and my huzzah buddy being bored. So uhh. Fear me. Or something. Oh yeah. Can you, fellow youtube viewers, come up with some funny disguise, and just come up with a tagline? I'd like to see your creativity. =]

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Any reflective student of history is often amazed at the products and processes invented and discovered in the ancient world that we take for granted today. Paint, gunpowder, weaponry, cement, the arch, beer, silk, papyrus, champagne, and so many others remain at the center of modern society and commerce in one form or another. Two of the most interesting ancient inventions are among the most popular consumer products of modern times, chewing gum and chocolate.

Chocolate was first harvested and converted into a consumable drink by the Aztec's in Mexico. Before the Aztec's, the cacao bean was considered a nuisance plant that neither animals or humans would eat. Tough, bitter, hard, and inedible, cacao was the plant seemingly least likely to have an upside commercial destiny.

The Aztec's took the cacao bean and blended the meat of the plant with peppers, cane and various liquids to form a drink that was consumed vigorously as a luxury tonic. The cultivation of cacao became a significant industry in Mexico and the beans actually represented a type of currency that facilitated trade.

When Hernando Cortes conquered Mexico, he and his Spanish conquistador's were repulsed by the taste of the cacao spirit drink that the Aztec's consumed in such large quantities. They spit it out and written accounts refer to their disgust at the drinks harsh, bitter taste. However, through experimentation, they found that by removing the pablano peppers and other Mexican herbs and substituting pure sugar the combination produced a sweet, savory foodstuff that was consumable as a drink or a candy.

The undesirable cacao bean had found it's initial commercial niche. Plant specimens were transported back to Spain and soon the popularity of chocolate spread across Europe. Planting of cacao trees spread across parts of Africa and Asia as demand increased and plantations were required to produce cacao in huge quantities.

The Aztec's likewise are central to the discovery and commercialization of chewing gum. In remote parts of southern Mexico, trees release a type of sap called chicle. The Aztec's harvested this chicle resin and developed a chewable paste that could be imbued with herbs, sweets and flavors. For hundreds of years the use of chicle as a forerunner of modern chewing gum was common throughout Mexico and parts of Central America.

Hernando Cortes however did not just conquer the Aztec's. He obliterated their society and culture. The southern source of chicle was unknown to the Spanish and thus lost for centuries. In 1870, Thomas Adams, exploring in Mexico's southern-most jungle rediscovered the ancient chicle resin. Soon after, William Wrigley found the source and the first chewing gum war soon commenced.

Adam's most famous brand of chewing gum was Chiclettes. Wrigley launched the Juicy Fruit and Spearmint brands. Both were very successful, though Wrigley came to be a towering beacon of Chicago commercial and social life. The Company he founded, in addition to the eponymous Wrigley Building and Wrigley Field, has seared the name Wrigley as one of America's great brands.

Inadvertently, the search for new sources of chicle in Southern Mexico has lead to the discovery of many ancient Aztec and Mayan cities that the jungle had devoured. To this day archaeologists are diligently working, and discovering lost tombs, pyramids and ruins that might have never been brought from beneath the jungle's grasp without the commercial desirability of chicle acting as the apex prod for exploration.

The Conquistador's were not interested in foodstuffs. They were lustily seeking gold, silver, jewels and mineral wealth. However, after plundering Mexico and Central and South America of all the booty they could pilfer and transferring this haul to Spain they never recognized the real treasures they had discovered.

Many types of grains, vegetables and fruits were introduced to Europe and the world as a result of the rapaciousness of the Spanish Conquistador's. These unintended side effects of the Spanish invasion of the New World were, at that time, considered tertiary benefits of the conquests. Certainly, the exportation of chocolate and chewing gum has provided the modern world with several of life's most appreciated and satisfying products.

Cadbury, Nestle, Mars and Hershey are international behemoth brands that provide sinful delicacy and enjoyment to humankind at amazingly affordable pricing. Hundreds of enterprises, large and small, all over the world produce amazing confections based on the Aztec discoveries of chicle and chocolate. Today, we are the beneficiaries of the Aztec genius for taking unwanted forest by-products and converting them to wondrous concoctions that make our mouths salivate and tongue's quiver with delight.

The Aztec legacy would be great even without the treasured gifts of chewing gum and chocolate. But when I watch a child eat chocolate ice cream, or a Snickers bar, or blow bubble gum bubbles, I know the world is a happier place as a result of this ancient genius.

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Everybody looks forward to party favors and goodie bags from the hostess. You don't have to spend a lot of money on party favors if you don't have a lot in the budget; creativity can go a long ways.

Follow your theme and it will add to the fun and excitement of the party. For example, if you decide to use a 50's theme, you could hand out homemade mix CDs of 50's music--think Elvis, Little Richard, Bill Hailey and the Comets, The Platters, and other artists from the era.

Sweet Sixteen Party Favors Ideas

Photo Lollipops with the birthday girl's picture on them. Find a company on the internet and order the lollipops about a month in advance so you are sure to get them in time for the party.

Special sticky notes, printed with fun, teenager type themes, music, trivia, etc. are good party favors. They are great for putting into purses and grabbing when your guests need to write down a cell number or a quick message.

Happy Birthday Pencils are fun, too. You can order in bulk from places like Oriental Trading Company. Take 4-5 pencils and tie them together with some pretty satin ribbon and then add some paper wrapped candies on the ends of the ribbon; tie the candies with the ribbon and let them hang down for added decoration.

Purchase small cloth bags from a craft store and fill them with candy coins or mixed chocolate candies like mini Snickers, Milky Ways, or Kit-Kat bars.

Noise Makers! They may be cool teenagers, but they still love to make noise. Grab a few bags at the party store and hand them out to your guests as they arrive to celebrate.

Bubbles are always fun and set the party mood.

These are just a few suggestions for Sweet Sixteen Party Favors. Take the ideas and embellish them any way you want. Ask the birthday girl for ideas on what her friends would like. Maybe find out what kind of favors were given at the last party she attended and then put your own special spin on it.

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I was significantly overweigh for over forty years of my life. During that time I tried pretty much every diet that existed and by age 65 nothing had worked.

I tried;

- The Peanut butter diet.

- The Ice cream diet.

- The low carbohydrate diet.

- The high protein diet.

- The no deserts diet.

- The vegetable diet.

- The coffee diet.

- The cottage cheese diet.

- The chewing gum diet.

- The yogurt diet.

- The watch your weight diet.

- The eat everything you want diet.

- The Jell-O diet.

- The low fat diet.

- The count the calories diet.

This list goes on and on folks.

None of them worked. Why? Oh sure each one has it's success stories I am sure, but in the end how many people ended up putting most of the weight back on? I'll wager most of them sooner or later. They didn't work because diets don't work! I'm sure this statement will annoy most of the diet specialists. Sorry folks, it's just true.

I'll bet that few of the people who failed at losing the weight permanently blamed themselves. Most I am sure, blamed the diet, the pill, the health club or the foods they were consuming.

Well, I have news for you. Guns don't kill people, people kill people. Food doesn't make people fat, people make themselves fat. It's that simple.

So, if you want to look better, live longer, have more fun and energy, be healthy blaming the latest diet isn't going to give you much satisfaction. But, if you keep at them you will certainly make all of them wealthy.

Where was I? Oh, for the past thirty-five years as a professional speaker preaching; discipline, persistence, success, goals and accountability around the world, I often felt like a fraud as I am sure there were always people in my audiences who thought, "RIGHT, you ought to practice what you preach buddy. You could afford to lose a few pounds yourself"

One morning I looked in the mirror after my shower and realized - I had breasts. This book is not aimed at men or women, so let's get that clear from the beginning.

The bottom line is men are not supposed to have breasts where they need a bra to hold them up. Just imagine me shopping in the lingerie department of the local store for a bra when the sales clerk approaches and says, "And what size would you like to purchase a bra for your wife?" "Sorry Mam this bra is for me." Well you get the picture I'm sure.

Well, it was time to finally do something about my 45 plus pounds of excess flab. I was out of excuses and people to blame.

And so the decision was made.

I would lose fifty pounds no matter what.

But, here's the problem. I love sweets, you name it, I love it. I love;

Key lime pie.

Snickers bars.

Chocolate cake.

Crème Brule.

Tiramisu.

Bread pudding.

Carrot cake.

Ice cream.

Brownies.

And, oh yes, let's not forget chocolate chip cookies.

Well, before I move on here I have to tell you, that I am also a sucker for;

French fries

Onion rings

Pizza

Pasta

A big steak

Barbecue

Potato chips

Hamburg's

Potato soup

This list is also far to long to bore you with.

It was time for a change. Not a change of food tastes, likes, preferences but time for a new decision - a time for no more excuses.

It was time to be thinner and yes, lose my breasts so I could watch my grandchildren grow up and not be embarrassed at the local pool when playing with them.

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www.uberpulse.com Anthony Zuiker, creator of the famed CSI:Crime Scene Investigation TV franchise had a nice run giving away chocolate bars at the Virtual Worlds conference audience. "I have a point to this", he said! Well his point was that virtual worlds are for real and that he, Hollywood, Fortune 1000, marketers, developers, etc... can make a lot of money out of it. Well it's all about story telling and how you script... and Zuiker is a pro in that! "50 years ago, Milton Hershey gave his chocolate to Frank Mars' cookies and vice versa. They built the most successful candy bars in the world: Snickers, Milky Way and the 3 Musketeers. You out there, business community, marketers, virtual, Fortune 1000... by you working with us at CSI, we as the narrative, the future for all of us is very very good. So like that Snickers, the future is delicious, has a lot of nuts, but for all of us it's also sweet. I'll see you in first life, I'll see you in SecondLife, and God willing, I'll see you in the after life!" On October 24th, Gary Sinise's character and other CSI:NY characters will chase a killer in the real world and follow his avatar in Second Life. CBS will provide two 30-second spots advertising the virtual world created by the Electric Sheep Company to bring people online. Now I understand why "sheep" is in ESC's name ;-) www.uberpulse.com

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This is my beloved Dutch rabbit, Snickers. She'll be 5 years old in May. And yes, I know she looks more like an Oreo cookie...but that name is so cliché, is it not? No, actually a friend of mine already had a rabbit named Oreo, and I didn't want to use the same name. So I just decided on my second favorite junk food: Snickers bars. Hence, her name is Snickers.

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(Recommended to read the description first.) Let's hope that by changing the settings a bit, we'll have no in-and-out audio going. If this DOESN'T work, you may wanna read my reasons and beliefs a little below here. But of course, if I made the right changes, then no need to worry about the next parts. There's also a backup plan that should work, but the game's screen will have to stretch in the process, and I DON'T want that to happen. I want 100% quality stuff from my videos. (That, and I'm picky. :\) For some reason, Kirby's Adventure's audio is different from the audio of my other games (ie, Metroid, or Super Mario Bros). I noticed that the audio when rendering to AVI looks way different than my Metroid video. Kirby's audio has some what of an up-down motion going on, while Metroid's, as well as others', has their audio nice and bunched up. Kirby's up-down audio can really be noticed if you increase the bit-rate (the higher the bit-rate, the better the audio's quality will be), so I decided to bump down the bit-rate so hopefully the up-down audio isn't too noticeable. ~ If you understood what I meant up there, give yourself a cookie. Now, let's get into entertaining descriptions. Here, I tackle Level 2's yummy Ice Cream Island. Watch as I make noobish mistakes, almost die an endless amount of times, and make myself look like I can't press 2 simple buttons! With all of these UNNEEDED mistakes, the video has to be in 2 parts, each containing 3 stages, so that makes it ...

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Teryn and I checked out this place called MyFroYo. It's pretty much an awesome frozen yogurt place. Lots of toppings. It's like Pretzal Day in The Office. We also watched School Of Rock.

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Chances are your nutrition is terrible. Or at the very least, your nutrition plan is good but you allow yourself far too many treats. Take today for example. How many Halloween candies have you treated yourself to at work? And you still have to go home and resist the leftover candy bowl or your child's Halloween loot. The bottom line: You can't succeed in your fat loss program if your diet is average.

I need to bring up this point because of the many emails people send me about their nutrition. From what I read, most people's nutrition plans are far too poor to allow them to lose fat. And yet they are working harder than ever in the gym and wondering why they aren't losing fat. No workout will help you build muscle and lose fat if you keep eating at fast-food restaurants, drinking sugary sodas, and raiding bags of leftover mini-candy bars.

And it's frustrating because the secrets to fat loss nutrition are so simple. The best approach is eating several small meals per day, with each meal containing lean protein, vegetables, and other whole foods. You must eliminate unnecessary calories such as soda and high-fat, high-sugar snacks (like that mini-Snickers bar that's on your desk right now). If you're trying to lose fat, you can't have treats every day. If fat loss is the goal, then cookies, apple pie, ice cream, nachos, fried foods, etc. just don't make the cut, as unfortunate as it is.

Research shows that an increased intake of fruits and vegetables is associated with fat loss (nutritionists never put a limit on the number of vegetables that people should eat - provided they are not fried or covered in fat or sauces). Other research suggests that replacing carbohydrates with almonds (a source of fiber, protein, and monounsaturated fats) leads to greater weight loss. Almonds are a very healthy snack and help curb hunger. A typical serving is 1 ounce of almonds (about 22 pieces) and can replace chips, chocolate bars, and cookies in your diet.

Make sure you are logging your food intake and making notes about your energy levels when you eat certain foods. Soon you will identify the nutritional reasons for your fatigue or for your consistent energy levels. You will quickly associate sugar and fried foods with poor mental performance, while noticing that small, whole, natural food-based meals and snacks help keep you alert and full of energy.

If you are overweight and just starting to improve your nutrition, I have some good news for you. You should begin losing at least 1 pound per week (probably 2 or more) simply from the nutritional changes.

Nutrition is that powerful. Don't expect to start eating perfectly tomorrow, but you should slowly build up to eating much better and healthier than you were yesterday. Try to improve your nutrition plan everyday. Stay consistent and focused with your nutritional approach. You can do it. Here are three nutrition changes that would pay huge dividends for a fat-loss beginner:

1) Eat several small, whole food meals per day.

2) Don't consume any unnecessary liquid calories (i.e. no soda, alcohol, or sweetened beverages). Drink more water - nutrition experts recommend 3 liters per day.

3) Eliminate processed carbohydrates and sugar from your nutrition plan (no soda, cake, chips, white bread, or chocolate bars).

If you're fed up with the body fat and spare tire around your middle, then it's time to take a structured approach to fat loss.

If your current nutritional plan is preventing you from losing fat, then it's time for you to start working on building better eating habits. This can be as simple as committing to one small nutritional improvement per day (such as replacing your lunchtime soda with water) and one large nutritional change per week (such as setting aside time on a Sunday to prepare a weekly menu and all of your meals).

But you need to have a plan to make this work, just like how you have a plan for your workouts. Your nutrition plan should include the contents of every meal, as well as your grocery list for the week. This will enable you to have meal alternatives for nights when you might need to be running from one event to the other with no time or healthy snack alternatives when you are on the road between meetings.

It's important that you make your plan something you can follow. If you are currently eating 7 meals per week at the golden arches, it wouldn't be realistic to plan to replace those meals with carrot sticks and tofu this week. A better plan would be to substitute a couple of those meals with healthier sandwich options and then work on improving things even more in the following weeks.

So here's a three-step guideline on building a better nutrition plan:

1) Prepare a weekly menu. Outline each meal and snack for every day of the upcoming week. Take into account the possibilities that you might work late or get invited out to lunch. The more options you have and preparations you make, the better you will be able to stick to your fat loss plan.

2) From your menu plan, you'll now know what foods and ingredients you need to make it through the week. Make your grocery list and stick to it (see mine below). Grocery shopping is your first opportunity to break some bad nutritional habits. You can't eat chips, cookies, or cakes if you don't have them in the house - so don't buy them and you'll avoid any future temptation.

3) Prepare the meals or prepare the ingredients so that making the actual meal doesn't take a lot of time. Like shopping, it's best to do all of these preparations at one time (such as on a Sunday or another day off).

My shopping list includes:

Fruits

· Apples

· Oranges

· Blueberries

· Melon

· Peaches

· Grapefruit

· Raspberries

Vegetables

· Peppers (red, yellow, green, & orange),

· Spinach

· Asparagus

· Broccoli

· Snow Peas

· Mushrooms

· Frozen mixed vegetables

· Tomato sauce

Protein Sources

· Chicken breasts

· Turkey breasts

· Salmon fillets

· Lean beef

· Skim milk & low-fat, low-sugar yogurt

Carbohydrates

· Oat bread

· Oatmeal (no sugar added)

· Whole-wheat pasta

Other

· Green tea

· Unsalted, not roasted, Almonds

You'll notice that most of these foods come without a food label. Most of the foods that you should avoid come in a bag or a box. Building a shopping list that contains very few bagged or boxed items is something to aim for. But when you do purchase something with a label, make sure to avoid two of the unhealthiest ingredients created by man:

1) High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS)

2) Hydrogenated or partially-hydrogenated vegetable oil (the sources of trans-fatty acids)

You might have heard of these two ingredients. They are strongly associated with obesity and other lifestyle-diseases (such as diabetes).

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Adults will often use it as an antidepressant. No matter what the reason, has become the most popular dessert in the world.

is said to have been processed and consumed for over 3000 years. In that time, there have been a countless number of types of created, with some of the most popular being milk, dark, and white. There are bars, drinks, cakes, pies, fudge, and pudding, not to mention popular movies and books about the product. is a worldwide phenomenon, and you would be hard-pressed to find someone who is not fond of the cocoa bean.

Questions arise when discussing the most popular. Since there are so many different types, this argument can be broken down into a number of categories.

Candy Bars

Based on sales, Snickers is the most popular bar in the world, with the Kit Kat bar following close behind in second place. Other popular American candy bars include Twix, Hershey's, 100 Grand, Milky Way, 3 Musketeers, Baby Ruth, and Almond Joy. Hershey's and Nestle boast the highest sales in the United States, Cadbury's ranks first in the United Kingdom and Australia, and Pocky is the most popular in Japan.

Cakes and Pies

is often the main ingredient in many cakes and pies. A short list includes cream pie, pecan pie, peanut butter cake, lava cake, and cheese cake, just to name a few. It is impossible to discuss the product without also mentioning chip cookies and brownies.

Chips

chips often form a base for many great recipes. They are used in cookies, muffins, ice cream, pancakes, waffles, trail mix, and even granola bars.

Drinks

While hot is a popular beverage that has kept people warm on cold, snowy days, there are quite a few other drinks that contain a base. These include, but are definitely not limited to, Nesquick, Yoo-hoo, martinis, and milk.

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Millie here.! Last night I made cookies. Snicker Cookies. I asked my sis to try them. Jazmine known as Silent J. And I didn't know my piano had those cool sounds.Enjoy the real story that happened that day.! =]

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hahahah im still a noob xD hahah i suck here.... This is dedicated for the followning people: -Lilbeatz(Denise) -Cookie(Marian) -Monique -Maiko(Snickers) LOVE YOU GUYS XD

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Halloween is one of those holidays that has its own special brand of fun, not the least of which is trick-or-treating. My son will turn 3 a month before the holiday, and he is at the point where he really gets what trick-or-treating is and is very excited about it, even though we don't let him eat much candy. I think half the fun for him is dressing up and parading around the neighborhood - he's going to be Tigger this year - and visiting with everyone. He is a very social little guy. I remember last year, we ended up with tons of candy, and he probably got to eat one or two things (who gives a 2-year-old hard candy or Tootsie Rolls?!). This year, at least I know what we can do with some of that extra candy: Make this recipe for Halloween candy cake! It looks delicious, like so many of these fun Halloween recipes.

Halloween Candy Cake

Ingredients

1 cup unsalted roasted peanuts
3/4 cup flour
6 eggs
2 egg yolks
1 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
1/2 cup butter
5 tablespoon powdered sugar
1/2 cup whipping cream
5 1.8-ounce packages Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, finely chopped
1-1/2 cups chilled whipping cream
3 tablespoons light brown sugar
1/2 cup unsalted roasted peanuts, coarsely chopped
3 2.1-ounce Butterfinger bars, cut into 3/4-inch wedges
1/2 cup Reese's Pieces

Instructions

Preheat oven to 375F degrees.
Butter and flour two 9-inch round cake pans.
Grind nuts and 3/4 cup flour in processor until fine.
Using mixer, beat eggs, yolks, sugar and vanilla in large bowl until mixture whitens and triples in volume.
Fold in nut mixture.
Divide batter between prepared pans and smooth tops.
Bake until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, about 20 minutes.
Cool cakes in pans on rack.

Filling and Topping

Blend peanut butter, butter and sugar in processor until smooth.
With machine running, add cream through feed tube and blend until mixture is light and fluffy.
Invert cakes onto work surface.
Using serrated knife, cut each cake into 2 layers.
Place 1 cake layer on platter, cut side up.
Spread with 1/3 of filling and sprinkle with 1/3 of chopped peanut butter cups.
Top with second cake layer, cut side down.
Continue layering with remaining filling, peanut butter cups and cake, ending with cake, cut side down.
For topping, beat cream, sugar and vanilla in large bowl until almost stiff. Transfer 1/2 cup to small bowl and reserve for garnish.
Spread remaining whipped cream over top and sides of cake.
Press nuts around base of cake forming a 1.5-inch high border.
Cover top of cake with Butterfingers leaving 1/2-inch border.
Spoon reserved whipped cream into pastry bag fitted with medium star tip; pipe stars around top edge.
Garnish with Reese's Pieces.

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With the Glycemic Index Diet, it is the quality of carbohydrates that matters. Its concept is to make individuals feel fuller by indulging in low-GI good carbohydrates together with healthy fats and lean protein. Good carbohydrates include whole grains, whole fruits, legumes, and vegetables. Avoiding foods high in Glycemic Index is necessary especially since most of them are processed and made from white flour.

However, some nutrition experts claim that having a low GI score is not an effective assurance of being healthy. Carrots have glycemic index between 16 and 92, while sugar or candy can have lower GI score than a potato. Candy bars like Snickers are categorized as low GI food. However, when you check its GI score, it is 55. On the other hand, foods with high GI can also be nutritious, like corn, baked potatoes and fruits juices. The point here is to use common sense.

Glycemic index diets are popular in the weight loss industry. It is based on the concept that high GI foods increase the levels of blood sugar, cause the body to produce excess insulin, and encourage fat storage. Another reason why the glycemic index diet is controversial is the fact that GI scores can be altered by several factors like ripeness and cooking method. For instance, the riper the banana is, the higher is the score. Rachel Johnson, PhD, MPH, RD expound that al dente pasta has a higher GI than well cooked pasta. When fats are added, the GI scores become lower, or when a food product is made with fructose and not sucrose, it is ingested more slowly; hence, it has a lower GI score.

Also, GI response to a particular food varies widely from individual to individual. It can also vary within the same individual from day to day as reported by the June 2007 issue of Diabetes Care.

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FINALLY!! Number 7! Watch out for a sublinimal message! And Legolas snaps once again and is out to get me *snickers* If you can guess what the got some mail thing came from, I'll give ya a cookie ^-^ (And if you listen VEEERY carefully to the credit song, it sounds like they're saying "Poor Legolas on the run" XD)

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FORMULAS AND MEASUREMENT
Bakers generally talk about formulas rather than recipes. If this sounds to you more like a chemistry lab than a food production facility, it is with good reason. The bakeshop is very much like a chemistry laboratory, both in the scientific accuracy of the procedures and in the complex reactions that take place during mixing and baking.

MEASUREMENT
Ingredients are almost always weighed in the bakeshop, rather than measured by volume, because measurement by weight is more accurate. Accuracy of measurement, as we have said, is essential in the bakeshop. Unlike home baking recipes, a professional baker's formula will not call for 6 cups flour, for example.

To demonstrate to yourself the importance of weighing rather than measuring by volume, measure a cup of flour in two ways:
(a) Sift some flour and lightly spoon it into a dry measure. Level the top and weigh the flour.
(b) Scoop some unsifted flour into the same measure and pack it lightly. Level the
top and weigh the flour. Note the difference.No wonder home recipes can be so inconsistent!

The baker's term for weighing ingredients is scaling.
The following ingredients, and only these ingredients, may sometimes be measured by volume, at the ratio of 1 pint per pound or 1 liter per kilogram:
o Water o Milk o Eggs
Volume measure is often used when scaling water for small or mediumsized batches of bread. Results are generally good. However, whenever accuracy is critical, it is better to weigh.This is because a pint of water actually weighs slightly more than a pound, or approximately 16.7 oz. (This figure varies with the temperature of the water.)
For convenience, volume measures of liquids are frequently used when products other than baked flour goods-such as sauces, syrups, puddings, and custards-are being made.

Units of Measure
The system of measurement used in the United States is very complicated. Even those who have used the system all their lives sometimes have trouble remembering things like how many fluid ounces are in a quart and how many feet are in a mile.

The Metric System
The United States is the only major country that uses the complex system of measurement we have just described. Other countries use a much simpler system called the metric system.

Abbreviations of U.S. Units of Measure Used
pound(lb)
ounce (oz)
gallon (gal)
quart (qt)
pint (pt)
fluid ounce( fl oz)
tablespoon (tbsp)
teaspoon (tsp)
inch (in)
foot(ft)

In the metric system, there is one basic unit for each type of measurement:
The gram is the basic unit of weight.
The liter is the basic unit of volume.
The meter is the basic unit of length.
The degree Celsius is the basic unit of temperature.
Larger or smaller units are simply made by multiplying or dividing by 10, 100,
1000, and so on.These divisions are expressed by prefixes. The ones you need
to know are:
kilo- = 1000
deci- = 1D10 or 0.1
centi- = 1D100 or 0.01
milli- = 1D1000 or 0.001

Formulas and Measurement
Metric Units
Basic units
Quantity Unit Abbreviation
weight gram g
volume liter L
length meter m
temperature degree Celsius °C
Divisions and multiples
Prefix/Example Meaning Abbreviation
kilo- 1000 k
kilogram 1000 grams kg
deci- 1D10 d
deciliter 0.1 liter dL
centi- 1D100 c
centimeter 0.01 meter cm
milli- 1D1000 m
millimeter 0.001 meter mm

Converting to Metric
Most people think the metric system is much harder to learn than it really is. This is because they think about metric units in terms of U.S. units. They read that there are 28.35 grams in an ounce and are immediately convinced that they will never be able to learn metrics. Do not worry about being able to convert U.S. units into metric units and vice versa. This is a very important point to remember, especially if you think that the metric system might be hard to learn. The reason for this is simple.You will usually be working in either one system or the other.You will rarely, if ever, have to convert from one to the other. (An exception might be if you have equipment based on one system and you want to use a formula written in the other.) Many people today own imported cars and repair them with metric tools without ever worrying about how many millimeters are in an inch. Similarly, if and when American bakeshops and kitchens change to the metric system, American cooks and bakers will use scales that measure in grams and kilograms, volume measures that measure in liters and deciliters, and thermometers that measure in degrees Celsius, and they will use formulas that indicate these units.They will not have to worry about how many grams are in an ounce. To become accustomed to working in metric units, it is helpful to have a feel for how large the units are.The following rough equivalents may be used to help you visualize metric units. They are not exact conversion factors.

A kilogram is slightly more than 2 lb.
A gram is about 1D30 oz. A half teaspoon of flour weighs a little less than a
gram.
A liter is slightly more than a quart.
A deciliter is slightly less than a half cup.
A centiliter is about 2 tsp.
A meter is slightly more than 3 ft.
A centimeter is about 3D8 in.
0°C is the freezing point of water (32°F).
100°C is the boiling point of water (212°F).
An increase or decrease of 1 degree Celsius is equivalent to about 2
degrees Fahrenheit.

Metric Formulas and Recipes

American industry will probably adopt the metric system someday.Many recipe writers are already eager to get a head start and are printing metric equivalents. As a result, you will see recipes calling for 454 g flour, 28.35 g butter, or a baking temperature of 191°C.No wonder people are afraid of the metric system! Kitchens in metric countries do not work with such impractical numbers, any more than we normally use figures like 1 lb 11D4 oz flour, 2.19 oz butter, or a baking temperature of 348°F.That would defeat the whole purpose of the metric system,which is to be simple and practical. If you have a chance to look at a French cookbook, you will see nice, round numbers such as 1 kg, 200 g, and 4 dL.
The metric measures in the formulas in this book are NOT equivalent to the U.S. measures given alongside them.You should think of the metric portion of the formulas as separate formulas with yields that are close to but not the same as the yields of the U.S. formulas. To give exact equivalents would require using awkward, impractical numbers. If you have metric equipment,use the metric units, and if you have U.S.equipment,use the U.S. units.You should rarely have to worry about converting between the two. For the most part, the total yield of the metric formulas in this book is close to the yield of the U.S. formulas while keeping the ingredient proportions the same. Unfortunately, it is not always possible to keep the proportions exactly the same because the U.S. system is not decimal-based like the metric system. In some cases, the metric quantities produce slightly different results due to the varying proportions, but these differences are usually extremely small.

The principle of using a baker's scale is simple: The scale must balance before setting the weights, and it must balance again after scaling. The following procedure applies to the most commonly used type of baker's scale.
1. Set the scale scoop or other container on the left side of the scale.
2. Balance the scale by placing counterweights on the right side
and/or by adjusting the ounce weight on the horizontal bar.
3. Set the scale for the desired weight by placing weights on the right side
and/or by moving the ounce weight.
For example, to set the scale for 1 lb 8 oz, place a 1-lb weight on the right side and
move the ounce weight to the right 8 oz. If the ounce weight is already over 8 oz, so
that you cannot move it another 8, add 2 lb to the right side of the scale and subtract 8
ounces by moving the ounce weight 8 places to the left. The result is still 1 lb 8 oz.
4. Add the ingredient being scaled to the left side until the scale balances.

MEASURING BY WEIGHT
A good balance scale should be accurate to 1D4 oz (0.25 oz) or, if metric, to 5 g. Dry ingredients weighing less than 1D4 oz can be scaled by physically dividing larger quantities into equal portions. For example, to scale 1D16 oz
(0.06 oz),first weigh out 1D4 oz,then divide this into four equal piles using a small knife.

For fine pastry work, a small battery-operated digital scale is often more useful than a large balance scale. A good digital scale is relatively inexpensive. It can instantly measure quantities to the nearest 1D8 oz or the nearest 2 g. Most digital scales have a zero or tare button that sets the indicated weight to zero. For example, you may set a container on the scale, set the weight to zero, add the desired quantity of the first ingredient, again set the weight to zero, add the second ingredient, and so on. This speeds the weighing of dry ingredients that are to be sifted together, for example.However, remember that careful weighing on a good scale is more accurate.

British bakers have a convenient method for measuring baking powder when small quantities are needed.They use a mixture called scone flour. To make a pound of scone flour, combine 15 oz flour and 1 oz baking powder; sift together three times.One ounce (1D16 lb) scone flour thus contains 1D16 (0.06 oz) baking powder. For each 1D16 oz baking powder you need in a formula, substitute 1 oz scone flour for 1 oz of the flour called for in the formula. In order to make formula conversions and calculations easier, fractions of ounces that appear in the ingredient tables of the formulas in this book are written as decimals.Thus,11D 2 oz is written as 1.5 oz and 1D4 oz is written as 0.25 oz.

BAKER'S PERCENTAGES
Bakers use a simple but versatile system of percentages for expressing their formulas. Baker's percentages express the amount of each ingredient used as a percentage of the amount of flour used. To put it differently, the percentage of each ingredient is its total weight divided by the weight of the flour,multiplied by 100%, or:
100% = % of ingredient

Thus, flour is always 100%. If two kinds of flour are used, their total is 100%. Any ingredient that weighs the same as the amount of flour used is also given as 100%.The cake formula ingredients listed on page 11 illustrate how these percentages are used.Check the figures with the above equation to make sure you understand them. Please remember that these numbers do not refer to the percentage of the total yield.They are simply a way of expressing ingredient proportions. The total yield of these percentage numbers will always be greater than 100%. The advantages of using baker's percentages is that the formula is easily adapted for any yield, and single ingredients may be varied and other ingredients added without changing the whole formulation. For example, you can add raisins to a muffin mix formula while keeping the percentages of all the other ingredients the same. Clearly, a percentage system based on the weight of flour can be used only when flour is a major ingredient, as in breads,cakes,and cookies.However, this principle can be used in other formulas as well by selecting a major ingredient and establishing it as 100%. In this book, whenever an ingredient other than flour is used as the base of 100%.

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