Are you eating straight from your backyard? Most of us aren’t. We have little control over what ADDITIVES go into our food. The FDA has already banned some additives, but there are still some foods on the shelves–COMMON ones–that nutrition experts, such as Mira and Jayson Calton, PhD, that are somewhat dangerous to your health.
1. MAC and CHEESE, which contains FOOD COLORING agents yellow 5 and yellow 6, that give it its cheesy color. These are dangerous dyes made from coal and tar–not edible, and similar to the ingredients of anti-lice shampoo, a product designed to kill lice. Articifical colors are also possible contributors to allergies, ADHD and cancer.
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2. FLATBREADS and WRAPS, which include brominated flour (potasium bromate) which is used to speed up/cheapen production, and which has been linked ot kidney and nervous disorders, as well as gastrointestinal discomfort.
3. Sports drinks, which are colored with agents blue 1 and blue 2, added to make the drink attractive, are unnatural and may pose special risks to kids. Studies have shown the dyes may hinder cognitive development.
4. DIET CHIPS (Fat Free Chips) have been shown in animal tests to make animals MORE HUNGRY later.
5. YOGURT, THE NON-ORGANIC KIND, which, unlike organic yoghurt, come from growth-hormone-fed cows. They hormones may also cause cancer.
Using 1940s-50s era hunting cabins as his inspiration, this DIYer created a man cave in his basement and only spent $107!
This “cabin” is actually a re-done version of the man’s garage. The original garage was just white gyp-rock or painted plywood walls — totally plain, and had a shoe-rack shelf and a bunch of plastic bags full of things on the floor on one side. He also had a disco ball and light set up on the ceiling, which was just removable sections and fluorescent lights.
Basically, he covered the whole thing with wood. Horizontal slats for the walls, 2 inch wide floorboards. He build chairs. He build a stone fireplace on one side, and put a bunch of traditional items on it. The fireplace doesn’t actually burn wood, mind you. It’s fake, even though a metal kettle hands in front of it and there are buckets full of fire tongs and a stack of kindling and firewood beside it. My friend told me he took a lot of inspiration from my project but decided to do it in his garage, so he looked at getting the right garage doors from someone similar to William Garage Doors (https://www.william-garagedoors.com) to ensure his awesome project came together. My friend who had a similar project planned told me that he decided to have someone who could work Garage door repairs nearby just in case his changes messed with his garage doors and damaged them but I digress. The idea had him thinking about renovating his garage completely into something new, he even looked into the different types of garage flooring rolls that on the market and it has given him a ton of different ideas. But I digress.
“I used old crate wood that a local metal company used for shipping. The boards after breaking apart were 1″ x 8″ x 12′ rough cut pine. I used a couple dozen of these, they were free!” said the DIYer of his rustic man cave.
He’s also got a wall with a bunch of tools hung up which was kind of interesting. He seems to have set up a steel mesh on against the wall, and just put double-ended hooks in the mesh, and hung the axe, hammer, saw, drawknife, etc from the hooks.
He’s got guns on the walls, animal heads, licence plates, and several felt hats.
He also has a banjo, it looks like, in an old case.
One of the greatest things about this room must be that its just full of interesting, useful objects, right down to the wooden pails filled with straw rope.
“I used a draw knife to make each board look hand cut.
“Same wood as the walls was used for the floor boards. I ripped them to 3” wide then cut each with tongue and groove.
“Took about 6 weeks, with about half that time spent scavenging materials. The construction cost me $107 in materials. Everything else was free. The contents cost a lot more! Room is built and furnished to give a 1940’s-1950s era hunting cabin look.”
This is a question for all you ladies and all you gentlemen who have significant others they care about. Or it could be for those who are looking for a person they can start to be with this New Years…
So what is the most important thing?
New Years varies a lot by location and culture–some locations spend New Years with their family, and some are more party-bound. Individually, some people might really want go to a great party together. Some might say it is best just to be together alone. Other people want something to mark the occasion, like a gift or to be taken out somewhere special.
It will depend on the person, and to find out what other people feel is most important is not as important as what those in your lives think. To find out, share this post on Social Media, and read what your friends and family write.
Top 5 Korean Dramas of All Time
1. My Love from the Star (2014): Romance, fantasy and comedy
My Love from the Star is a fantasy romance between a top actress and a man who has supernatural powers. Extra terrestrial Do Min Jun landed on Earth in the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1897), but 400 years later in modern times he falls in love with actress Chun Song-Yi. This drama attracted many foreign tourists to Seoul, as it displayed popular districts for food and shopping in city areas.
2. The Heirs (2013): Romance
If Gossip girls disclosed the lives of privileged teenagers in Manhattan’s Upper East Side, The Heirs unveils the lives of young inheritors from families of Chaebol [Korean form of business conglomerate] in Korea. But the main male character Kim Tan, who is the heir of the biggest conglomerate in Korea, falls in love with Cha Eun-Sang from a poor family background. His love for Eun-Sang causes a conflict with his parents. What decision will he make in the end? His family’s wealth or love?
3. Iris (2009): Action
If you are a fan of the action genre, this drama is highly recommended for you. It was Korea’s first blockbuster drama. The story is based on a spy thriller between the two Koreas, and it portrays betrayal and romance in the National Security System (NSS). Lee Byung-Hun, who made himself known as G.I. Joe’s Storm Shadow in Hollywood, starred in Iris.
4. Goong [The Princess Hours] (2006): Romance and drama
Goong [The Princess Hours] is a romance drama which focuses on the lives of Crown Prince Lee Shin and his new bride Shin Chae-Kyeong, who is a commoner. This drama depicts 21st century Korea’s imperial family, but imagining that Korea has still maintained its monarchy since it gained independence from Japan in 1945. Therefore, viewers can see harmony between tradition and modern in architectures, costumes and food.
5. Dae Jang Geum [The Great Janggeum] (2003): Historical fiction
Daejanggeum [The Great Janggeum] is a perfect drama to introduce traditional Korean history and cultures including food and costumes, as it is set in Korea during Joseon Kingdom (1392-1897). The story is based on the historical figure Janggeum, who was the first female royal physician of the Joseon dynasty. It was exported to 90 countries. In Sri Lanka, it marked 99 percent of the viewing rate.
Some Mind-Blowing Facts About Billionaire Warren Buffett
One of the richest businesspeople, American (Omaha) Warren Buffet, in his 80’s, is looked to to see if there is anything we can learn from his words or his life.
Some notable points:
Warren buffet earned 99 percent of his wealth after his 50th birthday. According to investor Dan Kanivas, although this may seem unintuitive to many of us, this phenomenon was “essentially a preordained outcome for him” because of the nature of compound investment.
Note, too, that Buffett at age 50 had been investing for 39 years. Buffett began making money selling chewing gum, soda, and magazines door-to-door, and worked in his grandfather’s store. He also sold newspapers, golfballs, stamps, and detailed cars. When the investor filed his first tax return (in 1944 when he was around 14 years old), he took a $35 deduction for the use of his bicycle and watch on his paper route.
When Buffett was 11, he bough 3 shares each for himself and his sister of Cities Service Preferred.
In high school, he invested in a business owned by his father and bought a farm worked by a tenant farmer.
When Buffett finished college, he had over $90,000 in savings (in 2009 dollars). Buffett is known for his value investing and personal frugality.
Although Buffett is among the people who control the most wealth, he has pledged to give away 99 percent of his wealth to philanthropic causes, primarily the Gates Foundation. The investor gives his money mostly to charity, not his children.
Bill Gates met him for the first time only 5 years ago and did not think the two businesspeople had anything in common. Gates had scheduled his meeting only for half hour, but when he met Buffett, the meeting lasted for 10 hours and Bill Gates became a devotee of Buffet.
As for stocks, the investor owns relatively few, and the stocks he owns, he tries to hold “forever.”
Buffett has been remarked for his reluctance from public speaking, jet set socializing, private jet charter flying (although he owns the world’s largest private jet company). Instead, the investor relaxes at the end of a day by making popcorn and watching TV. He also plays bridge online several times per week. At least 4 times per week, it has been reported.
Some business advice from Warren Buffett: Here’s the 2 rules he gives to his CEOs (his company, Berkshire Hathaway, owns 50-60 companies, and he writes the CEOs of these companies only once per year, giving the CEOs goals for the year):
Rule number 1: Do not lose any of your shareholder’s money.
Rule number 2: Do not forget rule number 1.
This could be good advice for smaller business owners, who are looking for a small business advisor, especially if their business grows enough to have shareholders.
Tips by Warren Buffett (actually, I’m not sure if these are based on direct quotes, paraphrases, or just lessons based on Buffett’s words, but here is a set of basic investment ideas widely circulating):
On Earning: “Never depend on a single income; make investments and create a second source.”
On spending: “If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.”
On savings: “Do not save what is left after spending, spend what is left after saving.”
On taking risk: “Never test the depth of a river with both feet.”
On Investment: “Do not put all your eggs in one basket.”
On Expectation: “Honesty is a very expensive gift, do not expect it from cheap people.”
Maybe we should also note that Buffett himself had teachers, and the one he usually mentions is his respected investment/ business teacher Benjamin Graham, who wrote a few books in the 30s and 40s that are still looked to today for information on security analysis and value investing.
So here’s the problem: Your dog can’t go down your wooden stairs. Don’t worry there are plenty of stairs with carpets at Pear Stairs. But if you are sticking to wood then there is still a solution to help your dog.
The dog’s nails are getting long and your other dog is attacking her while she goes down the stairs. She has no going-down-the-stairs confidence. You have to carry her down the stairs.
Sponge Neoprene, 1/8th an inch thick–to go between the carpet layer and the floor to allow the carpet to stick to the wood floor, not slide, and not damage the wood floor. $20 a roll, needed 2 rolls for the 16 steps. Carpet free from the basement. Glue everything together — put one pad on each stair tread — and you’ve got it. Your pup can now climb the stairs easily, and hopefully his or her improved ability to manage his or her environment will lead to improved self confidence and mental health.
Just invented recently, these steam engines are smaller than red blood cells and most bacteria between one and three millionths of a meter. The significantly strong pistons are powered by a combined process of optical manipulation which bypasses microfabrication and draws strength from simplicity.
To our eyes, they look just like little pulsing circles (almost like what we’re accustomed to interpreting as biology under a microscope). But they are tiny explosions in water.
What is happening to create this explosion is due to the combination of two techniques.
Optical tweezers focus laser beams on a spot. The beam causes microscopic objects to move toward the point where it hits the water. But when the objects get there, they would like to stay there, but instead, there are microscopic vapor explosions that drive everything out (replacing it all with a bubble). The explosion forces things out with a force several times that of the force of the optical tweezers.
It’s this combination — the two forces working one after the other — that is the mechanics of the piston.
“The piston is a microsphere is powered by light, which also heats the sphere inducing the vapor microexplosions. Similar to an internal piston combustion engine,” said Dr. Pedro Quinto-Su of his inventions. “This is the first time that a steam engine has been miniaturized to a length scale of a micrometer.”
“The combination of optical tweezers and vapor explosions resulted in a microparticle (piston) that is periodically attracted towards the focused laser and then is pushed away at a fast speed by microscopic vapor explosions. In a sense it is similar to an internal piston combustion engine.”
This is the tiniest piston ever. It produces significant power though… for its size: 0.3 pico Watts on average.
The challenge of the past with regards to making a tinier piston was that they were based on the heat engine model, which is limited in efficiency. Even still, they were demonstrated at micrometer size.
But these pistons are only as big as a red blood cell, or as big as a single bacterium.
You want a flat stomach–flat abs? Here are 6 exercises for you to try. Do all of them in 6 minutes. 6 times (or as many as you can). 6 reps each. Rest 2 minutes in between. Warm up first.
You need a moderately heavy dumbbell or medicine ball (70-80 percent of the max you can lift), a timer/stopwatch, water bottle and chair/bench
1. Single-leg squats holding the medicine ball/weights overhead. 6 per side.
2. Side lunges and Press outs (push the ball out while lunging to one side. Do both sides 6 times.
3. Dumbbell cross rows (hold the ball and lower it toward your left ankle, pause and pull it to your waist. Do both sides.
4. Step-ups and press-ups (with your right foot on a chair, ball held at chest level, step up and push the weight up at the same time)
5. Farmer’s walk (walk 6 steps with the weight held in each hand)
6. Woodchops and twists (hold the ball overhead and drive it between your bent legs and with hips extended)
Japanese Cucumber Molds
Creating beautiful and fun shapes for your fruits and veggies is really awesome! Cucumbers can be easily molded and shaped into a star shape. Make your salad fantastic with this cucumber mold. It is perfect for your parties, get-togethers or simply for your daily salads. Kids will take interest with fun shapes and they will learn to love eating fresh, nutritious fruits and vegetables. Who says that veggies or fruits are boring? Mold it and make it fun! This is the way to make it extra special.
It is also simple and easy to use! How? Attach the pins in the cucumber mold and make sure it is kept together to form the right shape. Then place a small cucumber into the mold. Shape it into a form of a star.
Gardeners, what do you think? Is this something you’d grow in your kitchen garden or on your porch?
This star-shaped cucumber mold includes a set of three pieces of a 3 by 25 cm size.
Grab yours today and start creating a fantastic salad!
Creating beautiful and fun shapes for your fruits and veggies is really awesome! Cucumbers can be easily molded and shaped into a star shape. Make your salad fantastic with this cucumber mold. It is perfect for your parties, get-togethers or simply for your daily salads. Kids will take interest with fun shapes and they will learn to love eating fresh, nutritious fruits and vegetables. Who says that veggies or fruits are boring? Mold it and make it fun! This is the way to make it extra special.
It is also simple and easy to use! How? Attach the pins in the cucumber mold and make sure it is kept together to form the right shape. Then place a small cucumber into the mold. Shape it into a form of a star.
This star-shaped cucumber mold includes a set of three pieces of a 3 by 25 cm size.
Grab yours today and start creating a fantastic salad!
10 Breakfast Smoothies That Will Help You Lose Weight
I was speaking to a few friends the other day when our conversation came to the topic of weight loss. From where the conversation headed, I noticed that there are many people who want to lose weight. I mean, I was on that boat very recently. As I heard my friends speak about how they or other people they knew planned to lose weight, I laughed. They all seemed to want to spend hours in the gym and starve themselves to lose those unwanted pounds. For all those people who think like my mates do, there is a brighter future for you. Now I’m not saying that you don’t have to eat healthy and exercise, but I am saying that there are other things you can do that make it so much easier to lose weight. The many ways include yoga and eating certain types of food, but the way which I found the most beneficial was to drink smoothies for breakfast. Yes it is that easy. That is all that there is to this part of my weight loss journey.
Now, you can’t drink any smoothie and expect you might lose weight at all, but here are ten that you can drink and will give you the weight loss results that you want… and give you a lot of nutrition…
1. Metabolism-Boosting Smoothie (A mixture of Greek yogurt, almonds, cinnamon, strawberries and broccoli)
2. Sweet Spinach Smoothie (Made from spinach, grapes and other greens of your wanting)
3. Vegan Milkshake Smoothie (Comprised from a mixture of various vegan products)-Its really good actually
4. Apple Flax seed Cinnamon Smoothie (This smoothies is made out of apple, flax seeds and cinnamon)
5. Chia Berry Smoothie (This one is a combination of yummy berries and the new super food in town, chia seeds)
All these smoothies are really yummy and I would drink them even if weight loss wasn’t on my mind. They provide many health benefits and really help you in losing those extra few pounds. The one other thing I will point out is that it is definitely worth while finding the right blender for crushing ice – ice is a key ingredient in all smoothies as it makes them very cold and they will taste much nicer than it would if it was warm.
The theme here seems to be that PVC works for fishing rods. Fishing rods are long, and PVC comes in long tubes. Likewise, ceiling mount. Long fishing rods need a place to rest out of the way. Walls usually are cluttered already, so why not hang them on the ceiling. The ceiling is also a good spot for rods because nothing will fall on them up there — all you have to do is be careful you don’t let them fall yourself.
Option 1: PVC on Wood
Here’s a simple one. You can make this at home. It’s also very inexpensive. It could take a while to build though relative to the other options.
Materials for this fishing rod holder:
2? PVC pipe (length depends on number of rods needed)
Either 2?x4? or 1?x4? lumber (length depends on number of rods needed)
Saw
Drill
1/2? Screws
Option 2: Hanging Tree
This is a great option if you just have a few rods to store. It is quick and easy to build and you don’t have to spend a lot of time giving each rod an individual home.
Materials for this fishing rod holder:
3/4? PVC pipe
90-degree elbow pipe fittings
90-degree cross-tee pipe fittings
90-degree tee pipe fittings
Metal pipe strap
PVC Primer & Glue
Saw
Screws
I shared these ideas with a fisherman I know, and he seemed to think this was a pretty good idea. So if it passes that test (this guy makes a lot of things to do with fishing himself), it might just be a good installment.
If you’re looking for something different you don’t necessarily have to use a PVC pipe. For example, you could just as easily use a metal pipe from an online metal retail store instead. Let me know if you decide to make one of your own – I’d love to see it in action.
There’s nothing wrong with curves, is there? I don’t think so at all. And what does a belly really matter? However, for some, it is the ideal of many women and men. So, for those of you who are looking to get that thin-tummy look, here are 10 tips that can get you there more quickly.
Unfortunately for some due to health reasons they can’t lose the weight they want to, if you’re thinking about surgery you may want to scour around the internet for a good surgeon, like these tummy tuck services in Orange County.
1. Drink a glass of water before eating. In fact, make it a big glass or maybe two. This will help to reduce your appetite when you do eat your meal.
2. Eat five small meals a day. This is also called “grazing”. The idea behind this is that your stomach will never be too full from large meals, thus allowing it too work more easily. Also, if your stomach is too full, your muscles will become distended, giving you that “beer belly” look.
3. Eat slowly. After fifteen minutes into a meal, your brain begins to tell your stomach enough! Therefore, the slower you eat the less you’ll eat. You should still enjoy your meal though!
4. Know your serving sizes. Try not to overdo it. One suggestion would be to buy smaller bowls and plates so your brain is tricked into thinking your serving size is larger than it really is.
5. Do cardio 20 minutes a day, five days a week. This will help you lose fat around your tummy; this can also be speed walking, swimming or any other exercise where your heart’s BPM is raised.
6. Maintain good posture; it strengthens tummy muscles. Plus, slumping simply isn’t attractive.
7. Strengthen your core by buying a heavy exercise ball and doing exercises with it. Just be careful, as it’s easy to get injured when you’re just starting out.
8. Cut your sweets and junk food. These are simply high sugar foods that contribute nothing nutritionally. Try high fiber fruit instead.
9. Do push-ups and sit-ups. When performing sit ups, remember to raise your knees, don’t keep them flat. That increases risk of injury.
10. Cut down on alcohol and reduce salt intake. Again, alcohol is simply empty calories and is simply not good for you. Salt increases your risk of stroke and other diseases.
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