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Food and Products banned from Melamine Scare
Sep 27, 2008 Author: admin | Filed under: Banned Products, Diet and Health, Health and Fitness, Melamine ScareMore new products you would not even expect found with melamine. This is truly a crisis.
I do not understand why there is not more in the news about this.
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I love to go the Asian stores in my local area here in the San Francisco Bay Area.
I always buy certain candies that I love there so I was very concerned if my chewy candy and chocolates
were part of the banned foods. I did manage to find a list from Singapore, and Malaysia.
I have included a USA today article about candy sold here in America.
Chinese candy sold in U.S. has harmful chemical
By Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY
New Zealand says one of China’s most popular candies – a kind frequently sold at Asian markets in the United States – contains dangerous levels of the industrial chemical melamine.
In an extension of the broadening scandal in China over contaminated milk, testing by the New Zealand Food Safety Authority found 180 parts per million of melamine in White Rabbit Creamy Candies.
The agency’s website called the contamination “unacceptably high” and advises consumers to avoid the candy. Melamine levels were high enough to cause health problems, such as kidney stones, in some consumers, according to the agency.
That amount is about 1 milligram of melamine per candy, estimates Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition at New York University. “It’s not much, but it shouldn’t be there at all,” she says.
The candies are manufactured in Shanghai by Shanghai Guan Sheng Yuan Food.
News of the levels come as the scope of the milk adulteration scandal in China widened, with four infants dead from contaminated baby formula and at least another 53,000 sickened.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is sampling and testing White Rabbit Creamy Candies and other Chinese “milk-derived ingredients and finished food products containing milk,” such as candies, desserts and beverages, says spokeswoman Stephanie Kwisnek. No contaminated products have been found on U.S. store shelves, she says.
The candy, a chewy, milky taffy, comes in small cylinders about half the size of a AA battery, wrapped in a white waxed paper. The ingredients are corn starch syrup, cane sugar, butter and milk.
Candy from China makes up just 0.7% of the candy sold in the United States, says Susan Snyder Smith of the National Confectioners Association in Vienna, Va. No figures are available for how much White Rabbit Creamy Candy is sold here.
On Monday, 99 Ranch, a large Asian supermarket chain with 26 stores on the West Coast, removed White Rabbit candies from its shelves, says spokeswoman Jennifer Tsao. Other Asian markets across the United States have also pulled the candies.
Consumers exposed to tiny amounts of melamine shouldn’t worry, says Angelika Tritscher of the World Health Organization. “Melamine at low doses is actually not considered to be very toxic.”
Melamine or its IUPAC name 1,3,5-triazine-2,4,6-triamine, is an organic base with chemical formula C3H6N6. Since it is only slightly soluble in water, when it is illegally used in milk industry, melamine will be dissolved in formaldehyde (carcinogenic/cancer causing) or other organic solvents before mixing into the milk!
Melamine is sometimes illegally added to food products in order to increase the apparent protein content. Standard tests such as the Kjeldahl and Dumas tests estimate protein levels by measuring the nitrogen content, so they can be misled by adding nitrogen-rich compounds such as melamine.
Although melamine by itself is nontoxic in low doses, but when combined with cyanuric acid (at times, present in drinking water) it can cause fatal kidney stones/urinary problems. Below is some references of the melamine tainted food. All these references are received via email and I am consolidating for the sharing purpose. I urge all the food authorities to work with WHO to compile and share a complete list of banned food or recalled melamine tainted products to protect the life of innocent consumers.
According to an email received, the following food are recalled from shelves in Singapore:
1 M&M
2 Snickers
3 Mento’s Yoghurt Bottle
4 Dove Chocolate
5 Oreo Wafer Sticks
6 Dutchlady Sterilised Milk
7 Wall’s all natural mango
8 Mini Poppers Ice Cream
9 Magnum Ice Cream
10 Moo Sandwich Ice Cream
11 Mini Cornetto
12 Youcan Ice Cream
A longer list that includes brands and descriptions of melamine tainted food products recalled provided by Food Technology Research Centre in MARDI, Malaysia:
1 BAIRONG GRAPE CREAM CRACKERS
2 DOVE H/NUT ALM & RAISIN CHOC
3 DOVE HAZELNUT CHOC
4 DOVE MILK CHOCOLATE
5 Dreyers Choc Cake Ice Cream 887ml
6 Dreyers Choc Cake Ice Cream 887ml
7 Dreyers Cookie & Cream Ice Cream 887ml
8 Dreyers Cookie & Cream Ice Cream 887ml
9 Dreyers Mint Chip Ice Cream 887ml
10 Dreyers Mint Chip Ice Cream 887ml
11 Dreyers Rocky Road Ice Cream 887ml
12 Dreyers Rocky Road Ice Cream 887ml
13 Dreyers Strawberry Ice Cream 887ml
14 Dreyers Strawberry Ice Cream 887ml
15 Dreyers Toast Almond Ice Cream 887ml
16 Dreyers Toast Almond Ice Cream 887ml
17 Dreyers Vanilla Ice Cream 887ml
18 Dreyers Vanilla Ice Cream 887ml
19 DUTCH LADY STER M LF BANANA
20 DUTCH LADY STER MK LF PLAIN
21 DUTCH LADY STER MK LF CHOC
22 DUTCH LADY STER MK LF SBERRY
23 DUTCH LADY STER M LF HNYDEW
24 DUTCH LADY STER M LF HNYDEW
25 DUTCH LADY STER MILK PLAIN
26 DUTCH LADY STER MK LF CHOC
27 DUTCH LADY STER MK LF SBERRY
28 DUTCH LADY STER M LF BANANA
29 FIRST CHOICE CALCIUM SESAME CRACKERS
30 FIRST CHOICE CALCIUM SALTINE CRACKERS
31 FIRST CHOICE CALCIUM S ONION CRACKERS
32 FIRST CHOICE CALCIUM SEAWEED CRACKERS
33 GINBIS PARTY ANIMAL BUTTER BISC
34 GINBIS PARTY ANIMAL SEAWEED BIS
35 GINBIS PARTY ANIMAL CNUT
36 GINBIS ANIMAL BISCUIT
37 Koala Cocoa Biscuit 40g
38 Koala Cocoa Biscuit 40g
39 KRAFT OREO WAFER STICKS 18S
40 KRAFT OREO WAFER STICKS 5S
41 KRAFT OREO W/STICK WH CHOC 18S
42 KRAFT OREO W/STICK WH CHOC 5S
43 Lotte Koala Cocoa Funpack 210g
44 Lotte Koala Cocoa Funpack 210g
45 M & M Chocolate Peanut 200g
46 M & M Chocolate Peanut 200g
47 M&M CHOC CANDIES PLAIN%
48 M&M CHOC CANDIES PEANUT%
49 M&M CHOC CANDIES-PLAIN
50 M&M CHOC CANDIES-PEANUTS
51 M&M FUNSIZE MILK
52 M&M FUNSIZE PEANUT
53 M&M Chocolate Candies Plain 200g
54 M&M Chocolate Candies Plain 200g
55 MEIJI UJIKINTOKI 2978
56 MEIJI UMAKABO CHOCOLATE
57 MEIJI FAMILY PACK-GREEN TEA
58 MEIJI CHESTNUT & REDBEAN
59 MENTOS BOTTLE YOGHURT PROMO PK
60 MENTOS BOTTLE YOGHURT
61 Monmilk BREAKFAST MILK MALT
62 Monmilk BREAKFAST MILK WALNUT 6S
63 Monmilk BREAKFAST MILKMALT 6S
64 Monmilk CHOCOLATE MILK 6S
65 Monmilk COFFEE MILK 6S
66 Monmilk HI CAL LOW FAT
67 Monmilk HI CAL LOW FAT MILK
68 Monmilk HI CAL LOW FAT MILK 6S
69 Monmilk HI CAL MILK
70 Monmilk HI CAL MILK 6S
71 Monmilk MILK DELUXE 12S
72 Monmilk PURE MILK
73 Monmilk PURE MILK
74 Monmilk PURE MILK 6S
75 MonmilkBREAKFAST MILK WALNUT
76 NABISCO IN A BISKIT CHICKEN
77 NESTLE NES D/STICK MINI VANILLA
78 NESTLE NES DISTICK MINI CHOCO
79 NESTLE MILK & BERRY STARS CRL
80 NO FRILLS WAFER BLUEBERRY
81 NO FRILLS WAFER CHOCOLATE
82 NO FRILLS WAFER PEANUT
83 Orion Fresh Pie 138g
84 Orion Fresh Pie 138g
85 Orion Tiramisu 138g
86 Orion Tiramisu 138g
87 PEI TIAN CREAM BISCUIT
88 Rabbit Milk Sweet 150g
89 SILANG NATURAL OAT CRACKER
90 Snicker Candies Funsize 240g
91 Snicker Candies Funsize 240g
92 SNICKERS PEANUT CHOCOLATE%
93 SNICKERS SNACKSIZE BARS PNUT 5
94 TAKE ONE BABY BITES 24S
95 TAKE ONE BABY BITE CK VG
96 TAKE ONE BABY BITE CARROT
97 Vitasoy Chocolate Drink 4s 125ml
98 Vitasoy Chocolate Drink 4s 125ml
99 Vitasoy Melon Soya Bean Milk 4s 125ml
100 Vitasoy Melon Soya Bean Milk 4s 125ml
101 Vitasoy Q Soya Milk 4s 125ml
102 Vitasoy Q Soya Milk 4s 125ml
103 WANT WANT MILK CANDY
104 Want Want Flavoured Milk 250ml
105 Yili Hi Cal Low Fat Milk 1L
106 Yili Hi Cal Low Fat Milk 6s 250ml
107 Yili Hi Cal Milk 1L
108 Yili Hi Cal Milk 6s 250ml
109 Yili Pure Milk 1L
110 Yili Pure Milk 6s 250ml
111 Youcan Masterbean Multipack
112 Youcan Passion Multipack
113 Youcan Silk Sliced and Passion Strawberry
114 Youcan Stawberry Multipack
115 Youcan Traditional Sesame Multipack 4s
116 Youcan Unusual Multipack 4s
To identify the save milk products including milk powder/beverages/milk added food listed by Malaysia Health Ministry, please refer here.
Some simple tips:
1. Check the label of the milk products. They shall includes food that contained milk in smaller quantity as well like beverages, yogurt, cheese, soya milk or cookies.
2. If you have doubt of the products like cake, bread or candy, stop eating or buying them. Better be save and sorry.
3. Read, check out and keep abreast with the latest news.
4. If possible, breast fed your baby.
5. Search for alternative protein or buy safe raw food e.g. tofu or meats and cook/eat at home.
FDA bans milk-flavoured candy from China
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has ordered its offices in border provinces, ports and airports to temporarily ban the entry of milk-flavoured toffee from China, for fear that the candy may possibly contain melamine, according to FDA Secretary-General Chatree Banchuen.
Milk powder contaminated with the industrial chemical melamine has sickened more than 54,000 children in China, while nearly 13,000 infants have been admitted to hospital, 104 in serious condition with kidney stones and agonising complications. Four babies died.
Mr Chatree said some consumers had expressed worries that the popular White Rabbit brand of milk-flavoured toffee imported from China with an edible inner wrapping may also contain melamine.
Because of the threat of additional contamination he ordered FDA officials on high alert and banned the import of the category of toffee candies for the time being. Testing of toffee samples in the market is being done to determine whether it can be safely consumed.
As for the infant formula milk powders that are available in Thailand’s markets, the FDA chief said he was confident that the products were free of melamine as most of the products were produced from raw materials imported from New Zealand and European countries.
However, dairy product for adults — including yogurt — may use milk powder from China, but less than 10 per cent, he said, which could pose minimal risk.
Mr Chatree also recommended that consumers avoid milk-flavoured toffee from China until the authorities complete their assessment and confirm that there is no contamination.
Melamine, usually used to make plastics and fertiliser, can cause kidney stones and lead to kidney failure. It has been found in candy, buns and milk cartons sold internationally.
Since the scandal broke earlier this month, Bangladesh, Brunei, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Taiwan have placed at least partial import bans on Chinese dairy products.
FDA expands checks for Chinese milk products
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Food and Drug Administration has expanded its checks for possible melamine-contaminated food products from China to include candy and other items, a spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
Chinese authorities are trying to roll back exports of milk products contaminated with the industrial chemical melamine.
Infant formula tainted with the chemical has put nearly 13,000 Chinese babies into the hospital with painful kidney stones. Four have died.
“The FDA has expanded its Asian market sampling and import surveillance assignments to include additional products such as dairy-based candies, dairy-based desserts and other such products reported to the agency as having been tested in other countries and found positive for melamine or its analogs,” FDA spokeswoman Stephanie Kwisnek said by e-mail.
“We are testing and we continue to test the products. So far, the FDA has not found any positive samples in the products it has tested.”
Melamine, which can be used to cheat quality checks by mimicking food protein, has been found in candy, buns and carton milk sold to other countries and regions, unleashing fear in markets already shaken by a string of “made-in-China” scandals last year.
China has the world’s third-biggest dairy sector by volume, after India and the United States, the Chinese dairy products industry association recently estimated.
Japan, Brunei, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Taiwan have already banned Chinese milk products.
The FDA says is has contacted the companies that make infant formula for distribution in the United States and been assured that none import formula or source materials from China.
Inspectors have also visited Chinese markets and stores to look for imported Chinese infant formula.
“Additionally, FDA is sampling and testing milk and milk-derived ingredients and finished food products that could contain these ingredients from Chinese sources. Milk-derived ingredients include whole milk powder, nonfat milk powder, whey powder, lactose powder and casein,” the agency said in a statement last week. (Reporting by Lisa Richwine; Writing by Maggie Fox, Editing by Will Dunham)
Cookies With Melamine Found in Netherlands
By VOA News
30 September 2008
Officials in the Netherlands say two types of Chinese-made cookies have been found with elevated levels of the industrial chemical melamine.
The Dutch Food Safety Authority said Tuesday the chestnut and chocolate flavored cookies from the “Koala” brand are now off the market because of their melamine concentration.
New melamine-tainted products are being announced on an almost daily basis.
In South Korea, officials say the chemical was found in Nabisco Ritz cracker cheese sandwiches and in rice crackers made by the Chinese company, Danyang Day.
Since the melamine scandal broke in early September, more than 50 governments around the world have either banned or recalled Chinese-made products containing milk.
The World Health Organization has issued guidelines to help authorities decide on the health concerns of melamine levels in food.
Chinese authorities warned earlier this month that tons of melamine-contaminated milk powder were exported to Taiwan.
Already some 53,000 children have been sickened in China and four have died after drinking milk or milk products laced with the chemical.
China’s official Xinhua news agency says police in northern China have arrested 27 people in their investigation of the milk scandal.
Police tell Xinhua that melamine was being produced in underground plants and then sold to breeding farms and purchasing stations.
The chemical which is used in making plastic, is believed to have been used to make foods such as watered-down milk appear to be higher in protein.
Lose weight using a treadmill workstation desk!
Sep 27, 2008 Author: admin | Filed under: Fad Diets, Health and Fitness, Just like us, Lose 10 pounds, Weight lossThis is such a cool idea. Featured in the NYT health section.
Workers in office using treadmill desk workstation
I Put In 5 Miles at the Office
Chris Machian for The New York Times
Walking 9 to 5 Zandra Hooks, right, and Kirk Hurley can answer phones and do computer work (not to mention burn calories) on their Walkstations at Mutual of Omaha.
By MANDY KATZ
Published: September 16, 2008
TERRI KRIVOSHA, a partner at a Minneapolis law firm, logs three miles each workday on a treadmill without leaving her desk. She finds it easier to exercise while she types than to attend aerobics classes at the crack of dawn.
Andrew Shurtleff for The New York Times
Dr. Joe Stirt on his home-office treadmill.
Brad Rhoads, a computer programmer and missionary in Princeton, Ill., faces a computer monitor on a file cabinet and gets in about five miles a day on a treadmill while working in his home office.
“After a while, your legs do get kind of tired,” said Mr. Rhoads, 40, who started exercising in March, when doctors advised him to lose weight after open-heart surgery.
Ms. Krivosha and Mr. Rhoads are part of a small but growing group of desk jockeys who were inspired by Dr. James Levine, an endocrinologist at the Mayo Clinic. In 2005, Dr. Levine led a study showing that lean people burn about 350 more calories a day than those who are overweight, by doing ordinary things like fidgeting, pacing or walking to the copier.
To incorporate extra movement into the routines of sedentary workers (himself included), Dr. Levine constructed a treadmill desk by sliding a bedside hospital tray over a $400 treadmill.
Without breaking a sweat, the so-called work-walker can burn an estimated 100 to 130 calories an hour at speeds slower than two miles an hour, Mayo research shows.
Enthusiasts began following Dr. Levine’s example, constructing treadmill desks that range from sleekly robotic set-ups to rickety mash-ups that could be Wall-E’s long-lost kin. But the recent introduction of an all-in-one treadmill desk from Details may inch work-walking into the mainstream, as dozens of businesses invest in the hardware to let their employees walk (and, ideally, lose a little weight) at work.
Since last November, about 335 Walkstations, have been sold nationwide to companies including Humana, Mutual of Omaha, GlaxoSmithKline and Best Buy.
The Walkstation, which Dr. Levine helped develop, costs about $4,000 and comes in 36 laminate finishes with an ergonomically curved desktop. Its quiet motor is designed for slow speeds, said David Kagan, director of marketing communications at Details, a division of Steelcase.
STILL, to most, work-walking is “a freaky thing to do,” said Joe Stirt, 60, an anesthesiologist in Charlottesville, Va., who works and blogs in his off hours while walking up to six hours a day in his home office.
Mr. Stirt’s site, www.bookofjoe.com/2007/10/treadmill-works.html, is one of some dozen work-walking blogs, including www.treadmill-desk.com and treadmill-workstation.com.
“I know lots of people who are using them,” Dr. Stirt said of the treadmill desks. “But there are probably a hundred times more who we don’t read about on the Internet.”
There is even a burgeoning social network (officewalkers.ning.com), with around 30 members, that Mr. Rhoads started in March.
To the uninitiated, work-walking sounds like a recipe for distraction. But devotees say the treadmill desks increase not only their activity but also their concentration.
“I thought it was ridiculous until I tried it,” said Ms. Krivosha, 49, a partner in the law firm of Maslon Edelman Borman & Brand.
Ms. Krivosha said it is tempting to become distracted during conference calls, but when she is exercising, she listens more intently.
“Walking just takes care of the A.D.D. part,” she said.
Still, work-walking can require crafty maneuvering. When colleagues drop in on Bruce Langer, another work-walker, he pivots, then keeps striding backward while facing them.
“It’s more polite and, from a workout standpoint, it works different muscles,” said Mr. Langer, a vice president of Tealwood Asset Management in Minneapolis.
In 2005, Salo, a professional placement firm in Minneapolis, contacted Dr. Levine after fashioning its first treadmill unit. (Employees called the cobbled-together unit “the Frankendesk.”) By 2007, Salo had become a test site for early Walkstation models and now has 16.
At Mutual of Omaha’s 150-person call center in Omaha, four Walkstations have been in use since July as part of a small company study to figure out whether work-walking could maintain productivity while reducing employees’ cholesterol, weight and blood-sugar levels. Sixteen subjects of different ages, weights and fitness levels work-walk two hours a day, said Peggy Rivedal, the manager of employee health services. A similarly diverse control group works the old-fashioned way.
After leaving the military two years ago, Kirk Hurley, 40, a customer service representative at Mutual of Omaha, gained 75 pounds. In two months of work-walking two hours a day, he has lost 16 pounds.
“You don’t really feel the physical strain on your body because your mind’s occupied with your work,” he said.
Treadmill desks will not likely replace the sit-down kind any time soon. In corporate settings, they are usually in open areas where employees can just jump on. At a few firms, including Salo, they have replaced conference tables.
SOME business colleagues arrive at meetings with walking shoes in hand, said Amy Langer, a Salo founder (and Mr. Langer’s wife).
But not every employee has the enthusiasm to keep work-walking day after day. Take the trial Walkstation at Humana, a health insurer in Louisville, Ky.
After a year on site, the treadmill is in use about 60 percent of the workday, mostly for conference calls, said Grant Harrison, the vice president of consumer innovation. Many workers, he said, may “try it out, but they don’t make it a part of their daily life.”
Nor does everyone have the coordination to walk and work, said Andrew Wood, the director of ergonomics and corporate services for Muve, a weight-management consultancy affiliated with the Mayo Clinic.
“If you can’t walk and chew gum at the same time, this may not be the workstation for you,” Mr. Wood said. But it should be a piece of cake for most people, he added.
James O. Hill, an obesity researcher and the director of the University of Colorado’s Center for Human Nutrition in Denver, shares this opinion: “There are not very many people who can’t walk,” he said. “You should have a doctor’s note to not walk.”
Will work-walking free you from the gym forever? Not if you’re seeking serious weight loss or peak cardio-respiratory fitness. “Walking on the treadmill could be enough to prevent weight gain, but it’s not going to melt the pounds off,” Dr. Hill said.
Still, something is better than nothing, say workwalkers like Mr. Rhoads.
“At least a little bit of exercise will just be part of my day and part of my working,” he said. “The one thing I always do is work.”
Correction: September 25, 2008
An article last Thursday about desks that include treadmills stated that Dr. James Levine, an endocrinologist at the Mayo Clinic, invented the first known treadmill desk. After the article was published, Seth Roberts, an emeritus professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, pointed out that he had created such a desk in 1996, eight years before Dr. Levine.
Christian Bale and Kermit the Frog — Brothers from a different Mother!
Aug 31, 2008 Author: admin | Filed under: Before and After, Celebrity Sags and Bags, Celebrity Weight LossThis is simply hilarious!
Christian Bale and Kermit the frog in the same poses and facial expressions.
This is brilliant! You will love it.
Please check out the collection of photos this person managed to put together.
I was laughing so hard.
Here is just a few to start off with.
chris bale batman and kermit
See the full list here
http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/27350111.html#cutid1
Who is Sarah Palin?
Aug 29, 2008 Author: admin | Filed under: Weight loss
Sarah Palin is currently the governor or Alaska.
Her name has been batted around for John McCains V.P choice.
I did some research on her and I am very impressed!
What a nice looking family she has.
Alright she is in! Go girl power!!
BREAKING NEWS
MSNBC and NBC News
updated 8:11 a.m. PT, Fri., Aug. 29, 2008
WASHINGTON – Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain has chosen Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate, campaign officials told NBC News on Friday.
She would be the first woman to serve on a Republican presidential ticket. The anti-abortion Palin would also be the first Alaskan ever to appear on a national ticket.
Palin, 44, was elected Alaska’s first woman governor in 2006. The state’s voters had grown weary of career politician Gov. Frank Murkowski, whom she defeated in the GOP primary.
Even Hillary Clinton supporter think this was a smart pick. Thanks girls, read what they are saying…
On the group blog Feministe, Jill Filipovic, a 20-something New Yorker, worried that the Palin pick would “woo white suburban politically moderate female voters” from the Dems.
Palin “has a solid resume. She’s not an old white dude, which makes McCain look less stodgy. Biden will have a harder time debating against her without coming across as a bully (especially since he’s something of a loose cannon prone to idiotic slips of the tongue, despite being an excellent debater). She could potentially woo white suburban politically moderate female voters. She’s likable and has a very all-American story. She has a son in the military. The media is already swooning over her.
“All that said: She doesn’t have much foreign policy (or any other governing) experience, which puts a dent in McCain’s argument that experience is everything. But… yeah, this was a smart choice on McCain’s part. Damn.”
No Quarter USA, an online hub for anti-Obama Hillary supporters, had this comment from Danny in Alaska, a disaffected Hillary Democrat who had pledged not to vote for Obama, on a news post. He called Palin an independent and said a “vote for MCCAIN IS NO LONGER A PROTEST VOTE! I want bumper stickers.”
This is a great post from another blog, http://camp2008victorya.blogspot.com/
Here is some Wiki Info
Sarah Heath Palin (born February 11, 1964) is the current Governor of Alaska, and a member of the Republican Party. She is the youngest and first female governor of Alaska. Brought to statewide attention because of her whistleblowing on ethical violations by state Republican Party leaders,[1] she won election in 2006 by first defeating the incumbent governor in the Republican primary, then a former Democratic Alaskan governor in the general election. On August 29, the Associated Press reported that “speculation [has] moved to [Palin as a] darkhorse” pick for the vice president running mate slot by presumptive Republican nominee John McCain.[2] The CNBC news service is now reporting that Palin will in fact be the GOP vice-presidential nominee.[3]
She is reported to be a possible choice for the Republican Party’s nomination as Vice President of the United States in the 2008 election. Formal announcement of the presumptive nominee will be made in Dayton, Ohio on August 29, 2008, by Presidential candidate John McCain.
Her husband Todd Palin is hot too! Yipee, finally some eye candy for the girls!
Todd Palin, who is a lifelong Alaskan, a production operator on the North Slope and a four-time champion of the Iron Dog Sled Races. Man that is some serious sledding. You may of seen Cuba Gooding Jr in the Disney movie,”Snow Dogs“. Pretty cheezy, but my kids liked it, so what the heck.
A better dog sled movie is “Iron Will” 1994
Anyway, it is a snowmobile race not a dog sled race. Which I did not know, but found another great photo of him and his wife!
Todd will be the first man to be a V.P’s wife in office. How cool is that!
This is very exciting to have a women on the ticket, especially one like Sarah Palin.
You go girl!
Post Spice Skinny Diet?
Aug 25, 2008 Author: admin | Filed under: Celebrity Weight Loss, Diet books, Fad Diets, Lose 10 pounds, Weight loss
Celebrity weight loss secrets: Posh’s favorite diet book,
Victoria Beckham shunning “moron” food
Not that Victoria “Posh Spice” Beckham needs to lose any weight, but she’s recently been spotted with the book Skinny Bitch, a guide to vegan eating with a sassy, Hollywood attitude. One critic says the book dispenses pretty common weight-loss advice: stop eating junk food, sugar, sweeteners, caffeine, dairy, refined carbs and alcohol. The book is apparently militantly anti-meat, calling people who try to lose weight while eating meat morons and referring to the Atkins Diet as the rotting meat diet. It’s more an advertisement for vegetarianism than it is a diet book. There’s a joke in there somewhere about the authors being bitches because they aren’t eating junk food, sugar, dairy and alcohol, I’m sure…
Reviews and Information on Diet Books and Products
Aug 25, 2008 Author: admin | Filed under: Lose 10 pounds, Weight loss
Oprahs latest diet/fad/weight loss thing, 21 day cleanse
May 27, 2008 Author: admin | Filed under: Celebrity Weight Loss, Fad DietsI somehow landed on the Big Kahunas website this week and saw that
Oprah is doing a new diet called the 21 day cleanse.
The thing is we all know none of these diets are new.
I for one wonder what happened to the Fit for Life
couple you know Harvey and Marilyn Diamond?.
That was some yummy food. I still use the split pea soup recipe
and they had some yummy avocado snacking things
I forgot about. Some haters called them a cult, but I just liked the food.
( I did not actually do the diet, I just used the recipes I liked!)
Anyway I looked them up and they both married other people
and she is all into some new raw food thing and wow she has aged well.
Her new man ain’t too bad either.
Let’s face it when you have money, life is easier in many ways.
Sorry I digress…
You gotta love the big O. She has struggled with her weight forever!
I think she looks better now then she ever has and how old is she now, 54?
My gosh 50 really is the new 40.
So this 21 day cleanse thing sounds like this old book
I found in a thrift store many moons ago, from like
1960. Nothing is new…
My mom was totally into raw food and soy and wheatberry bread, back in the early 70’s.
No one would trade lunches with me and hey who can blame them, a raw honey and peanut butter
sandwich on the heaviest grossest wheat berry bread, with carob and sesame candy for my treat.
That was some gross stuff.
How I longed for a normal wonderbread sandwich with Welches grape jelly.
Luckily for the family, my Moms attentions was diverted
by Amway or Avon or something and she stopped
force feeding us that junk! ( it was few years though)
Hey Moms- don’t force your kids to follow your fads.
Moderation in all things is really the best method.
If you want to hear Oprah talk about her 21 day cleanse, she is blogging about it here.
I wish I had a chef to cook it all for me, then maybe it would be fun and taste good too.
How fierce is the Oprah looking in this photo?
You go girlfriend, I love you!
Celebrity Weight Loss
May 27, 2008 Author: admin | Filed under: Before and After, Celebrity Sags and Bags, Celebrity Weight LossOne way to feel inspired or depressed is to look at some celebrity success stories with weight.
Of course there are a few failures too… it wouldn’t be any fun if we didn’t include those…
Success-
Valerie Bertinelli:Lost 40 Pounds using the Jenny Craig Program
Love her to death. Queen of the lifetime damsel in distress movies and really a total B-list Goddess.
She is great. She stuck with hubby Eddie Van Halen through thick and and thin, ( they did divorce eventually) and now in her new book, she says she ain’t no saint either….
Valerie- don’t tell me that!
Sex and the City Gals
May 27, 2008 Author: admin | Filed under: Celebrity Sags and Bags, Just like usI never watched this show when it was on HBO.
I don’t have HBO. There is so much bad TV, I felt guilty watching more.
Of course with the writers strike and the utter glut of reality TV now,
I started watching Sex and the City in reruns.
I like it better with the swearing and raunchy parts deleted.
I can never decide if SJP is beautiful or just makes us think she is.
One thing I admire about her is the way she hasn’t changed herself and certainly should be an
inspiration to odd looking girls everywhere that attitude can take you very very far.
This blog is all about revealing that celebs are human too!
We all have flesh and it all droops and hangs eventually.
The gals of Sex and the City.
See even someone as skinny as her has a bad angle.
She is getting old like
the rest of us.
Growing old with style is
Kim Cattrall- You go girl!
The online blogs made a big deal when these photos came out,
but I think she looks great for a women in her 50’s!
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