| Smoke Out Delivery Dude for Fast Food
A knock on my door usually means one of two things: Either the Chinese food delivery man finally found my address, or my dealer wants to show off the latest Big Buddha strain he just got off some bro downtown for hella cheap. But unless Hermes is also sporting bloodshot eyes, I feel rude answering the door with a cloud billowing out of my living room. Smoking etiquette requires a sesh with my dealer for sure, but every time I'm handed my Kung Pao chicken, I wonder if a Trainwreck spliff would trounce my measly tip. Once in a while, some mad dasher from Domino's will give my roomies and me a "Smells good in here" or a "Looks like I got here just in time." I used to just neglect the small talk for what it was worth, but I've come to understand how easy it is to include your meal ticket into the rotation.
AgFeed Named Safe Animal Food Supplier In China
AgFeed Industries, a manufacturer, marketer and distributor of animal nutrition products targeting China's vast and growing animal feed market, has been honored as one of China's Top Ten Suppliers of Safe Animal Food. AgFeed won the award in the Safe Agricultural Products category by the China National Agricultural Wholesale Market Association, China's agricultural channel CCTV-7, and China Agricultural Movie & Television Association. Junhong Xiong, CEO of AgFeed, commented, "Safe animal food is essential for healthy animal growth and food safety for humans. As China's standard of living continues to rise, demand for high quality meat product is increasing dramatically. AgFeed is proud to receive this national recognition. As a leader in China's vast animal nutritional food market, AgFeed adopts strict quality-control procedures to ensure product safety.
The fat of the land
In recent years, here's what the scientific, medical and nutrition communities have said about dietary fats: Fats are bad for you; fats are good for you. Fats cause cancer; fats don't cause cancer. Fats cause weight gain; fats don't cause weight gain. Get the picture? Don't worry, we're here to help. Here's a guide to help clear up some of the confusion about fat and its effects on the human body. What is fat? Fat is oil. Dietary fat has lots of destinations after it's eaten. Its primary use is to burn as fuel. "Ironically, [fat] is a lightweight way to store fuel," said Dr. James Shoemaker of St. Louis University School of Medicine. In addition to being stored or burned, fat acts as a shock absorber between organs, as insulation to regulate body temperature, as padding beneath the skin and as a means to dissolve vitamins.
A 2000-Calorie Appetizer Is Too Much
Washington (eCanadaNow) - A 2,000-calorie appetizer. A 2,000-calorie main course. Another 1,700 calories for dessert. Those aren't typos. It's more like par for the course at Ruby Tuesday, On the Border, the Cheesecake Factory, and countless other top table-service chain restaurants. But since those chains make almost zero nutrition information available on menus, their customers don�t have a clue that they might be getting a whole day's worth of calories in a single dish, or several days, worth in the whole meal. And rather than compete to make their products healthier, restaurant chains are competing with each other to make their appetizers, entr'es, and desserts bigger, badder, and cheesier than ever before. "Burgers, pizzas, and quesadillas were never health foods to begin with, but many restaurants are transmogrifying these foods into ever-more harmful new creations, and then keeping you in the dark about what they contain," said Michael F.
Get a bird's eye view of our planet
Photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand's awe-inspiring Earth from the Air images have arrived in Norwich - with 120 large-scale photographs displaying astonishing natural landscapes located throughout the heart of the city. This has created a spectacular free, 24-hour, outdoor exhibition.Created by world famous photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand, every stunning aerial photograph tells a story about our changing planet. Seen together, they are an outstanding visual testimony to the world we live in today, a world with a growing population, shrinking biodiversity, polluted lands and oceans, a changing climate and a shortage of water, but a world nevertheless, of beauty and wonder. .
Grocers pull recalled peanut butter
Several area grocery stores pulled recalled jars of peanut butter off their shelves Thursday, taking no chances after the brands were linked to a salmonella outbreak. Food Lion in Stanleytown, Kroger and Wal-Mart all removed the recalled peanut from their shelves on Thursday. Wal-Mart carried both the Great Value and Peter Pan brands, while Food Lion had the Peter Pan brand. ConAgra Foods Inc. told consumers to discard certain jars of Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter after the spread was linked to a salmonella outbreak that has sickened almost 300 people nationwide, The Associated Press reported. Lids of jars with a product code beginning “2111" can be returned to ConAgra for a refund, the company said. Affected jars were produced by ConAgra at a plant in Sylvester, Ga.
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