8 Ways to Get Your Family to Eat Vegetables.
There are children who devour plates of crunchy salads and gobble up steamed broccoli, like it was candy, but what do you do if your kids refuse to eat anything green? Children need the vitamins and minerals vegetables provide. Vegetables from the Cabbage Family are exceptional sources of calcium, vitamins A and C, and beta-carotenes, especially kale and collards. Most kids (and many adults) don’t like the strong taste and texture of these leafy green vegetables. Rather than trying to get your child to eat food she doesn’t like, fix the vegetables in a way that she will enjoy. Don’t load your child’s plate with huge helpings that may be overwhelming. Give him a little and let him ask for more. Encourage your child to taste each dish but don’t force her to eat more if she doesn’t like it. Best of all, set a good example. If you are eating healthy, chances are your children will also.
Posted in Food | 1,472 views | 20 September 2007 | No Comments »
9 Great Ways to Get Thrown Off an Airplane.
There are many ways to get booted off an airplane, but some are bolder, more idiotic or more absurd than others. Jim Benning offers “successes” from recent history.
Sometimes it seems that everybody’s getting thrown off an airplane. There’s the Hooters waitress removed from a plane, temporarily, and chastised for her skimpy skirt. There’s the mom ejected from a flight for breast-feeding her baby. Where do they rank among our, uh, favorites? Read on.
Posted in Uncategorized | 4,241 views | 19 September 2007 | No Comments »
12 Simple Ways To Save Money On Your Wedding and else…
On average, couples spend about $27,000 for a wedding. Yikes! We’re not even including the honeymoon or engagement ring into the figure. For someone in school, forking over that much money is pretty much an impossibility. However, your big day doesn’t have to be that expensive. Here’s a list of 12 ways you can have a wedding on the cheap.
Posted in Save Money | 3,879 views | 18 September 2007 | 3 Comments »
6 Easy Ways to Wreck Your Teeth.
No one wants to have nasty breath, or big dental bills. Nonetheless, there are several very common habits that can produce both of those unpleasant results. And they can also leave your smile looking more Pirate of the Caribbean than Christie Brinkley.
Should your looks, breath and bank balance not be enough motivation to break those tooth-busting habits, maintaining your overall health should be. “It is absolutely clear that teeth are connected to the rest of the body,” says American Dental Association spokesman Dr. Matthew Messina. While the exact mechanism remains unclear, studies have shown links between bacteria in the mouth and heart disease, diabetes and low-birth-weight babies. “It’s about bacterial load,” Messina says. “If you’re fighting bacteria in your mouth, you have fewer resources to fight other things in your body.”
Here are the six most common tooth-defying mistakes and how you can avoid them…
Posted in Health | 2,765 views | 17 September 2007 | No Comments »
7 Weird Ways to Die Young!
What advice would you give to a non married, pessimistic pop star who has recently lost weight and lowered their cholesterol level by taking vitamin supplements?
Easy - stay in bed until after lunch of course!
We all know lots of tips about staying healthy and get advice from every TV chat show and billboard. But check out these weird facts if you want to (or want not to ) die young!
Here’s how to make sure you die at an early age - hint… the more of these tips you follow the better (or worse, depends how you look at it).
Posted in Uncategorized | 3,322 views | 17 September 2007 | No Comments »
8 Ways to Reduce Your Daily Evil Calorie Intake.
So your on a weight loss kick but you are not losing much weight. Evil calories are everywhere and you are struggling to beat them. When every calorie matters try implementing a few of these ways to reduce those evil calories.
These 8 tips are not hard to do. It will take a little bit of guts in some cases but most of you should find them pretty simple.
Posted in Fitness | 1,784 views | 16 September 2007 | No Comments »
Shopping addict? 9 ways to kick the habit.
Many people love to shop, perhaps women slightly more than men, but you need to be careful because excessive shopping can lead to financial disaster. So how do you know when your addiction has gone too far? How do you pay down the bills after you’ve shopped till you drop? CNBC’s Sharon Epperson, author of the book “The Big Payoff,” has tips on how to kick the habit.
Are you a binge buyer? Does retail therapy make you feel better after a bad day? How often do you hit the mall or shop online? How much are you willing to spend to make yourself feel better? Shopping without ever thinking about the costs is a big problem. It may even be an addiction. A study by the American Journal of Psychiatry found one out of 12 people (nearly as many men as women) are compulsive shoppers — and their shopping habits often damage their work, relationships and finances.
If you’re juggling credit card bills and pouring money into finance charges just to be able to shop a little more, your spending has probably spun out of control. You may not even realize how much credit card debt you’ve accumulated, or how many other bills went unpaid as you added another pair of shoes to your shelf. Did you think about how much you could have socked away in your retirement nest egg, or for your kid’s college education, or put into emergency reserves, if you’d saved just a little of that money you spent? You need to stop financing your future. To do that, you have to change the way you shop.
Posted in Save Money | 1,478 views | 15 September 2007 | No Comments »
Secret Way to Build Muscle And Lose Fat and 5 ways to beat Fitness boredom.
Are you sick of the same old gym and the same old workouts? Sick of getting up early for your fitness program start? If so, try some of these “beating fitness boredom” solutions! Everyone gets bored with fitness once in a while. Even people like me who absolutely crave sport of one form or another. Sometimes you just couldn’t be bothered. So, if you are having a bit of trouble getting motivated to work out lately, try some of my favourite tricks.
Proper protein intake will vary according to age, gender, goals and so on. No matter what your goals are, or how old you may be the objective is to lower your body fat levels. They peel off pounds with the current fad diet, only to put the weight back on after reaching their goals and return to the habits that made them fat in the first place.
If one of your main goals is to lose weight, you may want to look at the type and amount of aerobic exercise you’re doing. Set specific goals for each day, week, and month of what you need to do to move yourself toward your goals and discipline yourself to accomplish these small goals that will lead you to big rewards. How high you start and how low you go depends both on your and your individual metabolism.
Posted in Fitness | 1,246 views | 14 September 2007 | 1 Comment »
6 Metabolism Boosting Ways Your Body Will Surely Shift From a Fat Storing Machine Into a Fat Burning Furnace.
How can you increase your metabolism?
Lets face it folks, if having a great body was easy then everyone would have one! Some of you may be asking yourself right now if it really is possible to increase your metabolism. The fact is that we are all genetically different and what works for one person is not always going to work for another. Some people can eat pizza all day long and not gain a pound while the rest of us just look at a pizza and gain five. It may not be fair but that is the way the cards are dealt and for us easy weight gainers we just have to work with what we were born with.
Wouldn’t you like to increase your metabolism by pressing a button which would ignite your body into a fat burning inferno? Let’s face it, most fitness enthusiasts, focused on burning fat, always say they wish they had faster metabolisms.
Imagine if you could easily turn your body from an efficient fat storage machine into an emulsifying fat burning oven.
Another words, you are able to burn more fat, at rest, without doing one extra bit of exercise. To turn your body into a fat burning machine, and increase metabolism, all that is necessary is to follow a few simple natural metabolism boosters.
Posted in Lose Weight | 2,566 views | 14 September 2007 | No Comments »
25 ways to get the most out of the Gym.
Next time you are at the gym try some of these tips to get the gym working for you.
- Trainers are worth the money. If you have been at the gym for a long time and still aren’t seeing much progress you should spend one session with a trainer and get their advice and opinion. This could save you time, effort and a lot of emotional energy.
- Leg presses are safer than squats. Squats are the queen of all exercises but if you are new to the gym try using the leg press machine. It will teach you the correct pressing technique as well as allowing you to work your legs in a sage environment. No chance of leg or neck injuries here.
- Most new cardio machines have heart monitors. If you missed this one you might have been asleep while you were running. Almost all new machines have heart rate monitors built into the handles. Just press your hands on the grips and your heart rate should come up on the display screen.
Posted in Fitness | 2,632 views | 13 September 2007 | 1 Comment »