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It’s no shock that Americans in general have an unhealthy lifestyle and make poor food choices.  The phrase YOU ARE what you eat, eventually does show up on your physical body.

Research shows that there is a rise in chronic diseases due to those poor food choices and sedentary lifestyle.  Most of the diets that are marketed deal with reduced calorie intake, but don’t really address the food choices.

Mark Davis, M.D. author of The Millenium Diet: The Practical Guide for Rapid Weight Loss (while I realize millennium is spelled incorrectly that is the way it is written in this book), explains the vicious pattern of cause and effect with many of the foods we eat on a regular basis.

Last time we checked, a day lasts 24 hours – so shouldn’t your lipcolor?

The longwear, late hours experts at Maybelline New York think so.  that’s why they created New Maybelline SuperStay 24 2-Step Lipcolor, the longest lasting longwear lipcolor out there.  How long?  As long as your non-stop day:  24 hours, to be exact.

by hykuI spend far too much time aimlessly surfing the web each day.  I admit it.  But that’s where I get most of my entertainment news, I’m not sure entirely if that’s a good or bad thing.  In any case I came across some fun information today about Buzz and Woody going on a cruise.

Well not really Buzz and Woody – but really Tim Allen and Tom Hanks – well not really them either.  See Disney signed them up to do a live-action movie based upon the ‘Jungle Cruise’ ride in the Disney Parks.  How fun does that sound?!

Horizon Fat-Free Milk Plus DHA Omega-3 is the latest product to join the company’s line of organic milk fortified with DHA Omega-3.  The new Fat-Free Milk Plush DHA Omega-3 provides consumers with the same healthy benefits of DHA-fortified milk, but with less fat and calories.  It is the first and only fat-free milk product enhanced with DHA Omega-3 on the market.

I am pretty much inept at growing things.  No matter what I’ve tried to grow in the past, if you saw it, you’d think a drought passed through.  It’s a power struggle between me and the soil, and the dirt always wins.  Of course, my husband can grow nearly anything, which is pretty much the only reason we don’t have Fake plants in our home.

I can’t even keep cut flowers alive, so it makes me wince when someone gifts me with them.

Do you have a wacky or hilarious last-minute dinner drama moment?  I’m sure you do, we all do!  So I’m going to let you in on mine, the one that I’ve kept a secret for a long time.

It has to do with making honeyed carrots.  I had one of those great microwave pots from Pampered Chef.  I loved it.  I made virtually all my veggies in it for dinner.  My family doesn’t care for carrots terribly much, but if I add some honey to them and sweeten them up, they’ll eat them. 

Have you ever wished you could just while away a day at the edge of the ocean, just relaxing with a cool breeze bringing in the scent of the sea?

The other day I was sitting in my living room, with a Shoreline scented candle burning, while I was surfing the web on a site with a Bamboo rug.  Just then something triggered my memory.  Smells and photos

Getting a great dinner on the table that your family turly appreciates isn’t always easy.  Johnsonville Sausage makes bringing out the “thank yous” at your dinner table a snap with its selection of Italian Sausage.

I write the Switched-On Schoolhouse Series twice a month to share our family’s experience using this software based curriculum in our home.

When I was in Junior High I took three years of Home Economics.  I’m dating myself by telling you it was almost 25 years ago.  We’re talking old school, girls only, cooking and sewing.  Now I can honestly say I did learn a thing or two.  I learned foundational cooking and baking skills that have served me well over the years.  I can also sew decently, the most important thing learned from those units being hemming since I am only 4’9”.  But that was the extent of our learning in Home Ec…cooking and sewing.

New York Times bestselling authors and archaeologists Kathleen O’Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear continue the tale that began with People of the Longhouse with THE DAWN COUNTRY (Forge Books: Hardcover; $25.99; March 15, 2011), the second book of the Iroquois quartet.  An epic tale about a seminal figure in Iroquois and US history, Dekanawida the Peacemaker, The Dawn Country picks up where the first book, People of the Longhouse, left off.