I haven’t been posting because my laptop started to act funny last week. Today it seemed to take its last breathe. While I did back up most of my files to an external hard drive…it looks like I won’t be able to recover a number of important files. I’ll see if I can [...]

Because an audible alarm is so last year, and waking up to fresh coffee aroma is far too common, a trio has developed the next big thing in alarm clocks, the Wake n’ Bacon!  10 minutes before the alarm is set to trip, two halogen lamps are activated to slow cook the bacon, so you [...]

In South Los Angeles, 73% of the restauarants are fast food. The convenience of these foods, which is causing unhealthy weight and health problems has led the City Council to approve a moratorium to ban fast food for a year. This is done in hope that residents will seek healthier food alternatives and [...]

 Well, it looks like the tomato scare is over.  The tomatoes are off the hook for carrying a strain of salmonella that is responsible for sickening over 1,200 people.  The FDA’s eyes are now on those beloved jalapeño peppers as the strain was found in a pepper in a Texas packing factory.  So who’s to [...]

We all know that Mcdonald’s stops serving breakfast at 10:30am.  But what if you are craving a sausage and egg mcmuffin and don’t know what time it is? Rather than ask stranger or look like a fool for ordering breakfast during the lunch hours, you can rely on the ginormous mechanical egg in Chicago.  When [...]

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If you had a choice between eating potato chips or pork rinds, which one would you choose?  Instinctively, I would choose the potato chips.  It turns out that between the two items, the pork rinds are actually the healthier alternative.  The misconception that rinds are bad for you have definitely hurt its reputation.  Compared [...]

 
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There’s another reason to add some broccoli to your diet. Scientists have found a link between delicious broccoli and prostate cancer. Don’t worry, it’s a positive link.
22 men in Eastern England were given 400 grams of either broccoli or peas a week in addition to their normal diet for a year.
The small [...]

Many excuses people give for not eating healthy is that health-foods are expensive.  Well, if you think Wholefoods is the only place to get healthy food, then you’re wrong.  Most supermarkets carry a wide range of low-cost health foods that are easy on the wallet.  I found a great article listing the 20 healthiest foods [...]

The source of the tomato salmonella outbreak still eludes the food and safety health officials.  The outbreak so far has affected more than 900 people nationwide.  What’s worse is that the FDA is now questioning the source of the outbreak.  It might not be the tomatoes after all.   The other suspects are jalapeno peppers, Serrano [...]

There are themed restaurants, and there are themed restaurants.  Like no other, the restaurant, located in Hangzhou in the Zhejiang province of China, has toilets as the dining chairs, and the food is served in miniature bathtubs and toilet bowls.  Just make sure you don’t go to the bathroom on the toilets, even though that [...]