Archive for November, 2009
Detox Meals to Soothe Your System
Friday, November 27th, 2009All of this holiday eating and drinking can take it’s toll on the body. It sure tastes great and what the hell, you’re having fun right? But later, that’s when you pay for it with indigestion, a hangover and who knows what else. Basically you need to detox all of that junk that you took [...]
Crib Recall: 2.1M Stork Craft beds pose risk
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009Another day, another product recall. More than 2.1 million drop-side cribs made by Canadian-based Stork Craft Manufacturing are being recalled. This is the biggest crib recall in U.S. history and comes after reports that four infants suffocated in them. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said that the recall involves 1.2 million cribs in the [...]
America’s Healthiest Airports
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009Holiday travel is the worst. There are crowds, unpleasant people, stress and of course all kinds of germs leaping back and forth as if they are performing an invisible circus act. If you’re traveling over the holidays, you’ll be faced with long waits, deafening public-address systems, and indigestion to say the least. But airports are [...]
The 13 fattiest Thanksgiving creations
Friday, November 20th, 2009Thanksgiving is all about feasting and family. And sure there’s a lot of fat involved in the foods that we serve up. Some more than others. For instance, have you ever heard of a Turbaconucken? It’s new to me. It’s a chicken inside a duck, inside a turkey…then all wrapped in bacon. Yeah, that qualifies [...]
Movie theater popcorn is worse than the movie
Thursday, November 19th, 2009It’s bad enough that they don’t make many great movies these days, but does the popcorn need to kill you too? Theater popcorn is loaded with calories and artery-clogging saturated fat, according to a new analysis. But common sense would have already told us that. For instance a large-sized popcorn at Regal theaters has 20 [...]