The Truth about Food Labels

from nerdfitness.com:

http://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/2013/06/27/how-to-not-get-scammed-by-food-labels-plus-were-hiring/#more-19151

Food marketers are clever.

In the quest for the almighty dollar, companies continually find new ways to make you feel like buying their product is the best possible choice. For a while, it was all about bigger, better, greasier, more delicious.

But as our country became bigger and bigger, the topic of conversation turned to “how can we get healthier?”

So marketers had to change up their tactics. Instead of promoting the unhealthy, they started rebranding and repackaging their products with healthy buzzwords to make you THINK you’re eating healthier, while still making incredibly unhealthy products that keep you addicted to them.

That Lucky Charms Leprechaun is full of sh**! If anybody thinks that sugary cereal is healthy because the box says “made with heart healthy whole grains” they’re kidding themselves. But making the healthy choice isn’t always so obvious: ( Read more... )

Summer TV is Boring

Summer TV is (for the most part) boring. You end up searching the ends of the cable channels for something to watch.

Recently I've been watching Comedy Central's "Drunk History." If you haven't seen it, they find/get someone blotto drunk then have them tell a 'historical' story. Then they bring in actors to dress up and act out/lip sync this hilariously drunken explanation of a historical event.

Examples:

LOL!