So our interview with Miley Cyrus, where she calls Twilight a “Cult” and says she hates the “Twilight Franchise” has made it to the national level, including Entertainment Weekly, the AP News, and even Last Night on Jimmy Fallon.
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Here’s something really helpful if you love shopping on Black Friday (The Day After Thanksgiving) as much as I do.
It appears that some of the better deals are at Wal-Mart, Target, and Best Buy.
Check out some of the following websites for all the BF ads:
I learned about this from a few friends of mine and apparently it’s a pampered chef original.
But I wanted to share it with you!
It’s amazing!
Preparation
#1.) AVON. David McConnell started the beauty products company in 1886, but not on purpose. He originally sold books door-to-door, and to attract customers, he gave away tiny bottles of perfume. It turned out no one wanted the books, but the perfume was a hit.
–So McConnell founded the California Perfume Company, which later became Avon.
#2.) NOKIA. The cell phone giant started in Finland in 1865. But back then, they made PAPER. They tried selling a bunch of other things too, but nothing stuck until they eventually got serious about phones in the 1960s.
#3.) WRIGLEY’S. Just like Avon, Wrigley’s chewing gum used to be free. In 1891, William Wrigley Jr. sold soap and baking powder, and the gum was just for advertising. But his customers didn’t like the baking powder, and just wanted the gum. So he started SELLING it.
#4.) TIFFANY’S. Today it’s one of the biggest jewelry stores in the world. But in 1837, Tiffany & Company sold STATIONARY and went by the name “Tiffany, Young, and Ellis.” They didn’t start focusing on jewelry until 1853.
#5.) COLGATE. William Colgate started the company in 1806, selling soap, candles, and starch. It wasn’t until almost 70 years later that Colgate made its first tube of toothpaste.
#6.) ABERCROMBIE & FITCH. All their sweaters say “1892″ on the front, which IS when the company was technically founded. But back then, they sold sporting goods. The version you see at the mall today started in 1988, when Abercrombie was bought out by The Limited.
Kelly Clarkson got into the Halloween spirit at her concert Saturday night by dressing up as Family Guy’s Stewie Griffin.
And the American Idol alum treated the audience to a mashup of her single Already Gone and Beyonce’s Halo.
Finally! They’re practically the same song, except Kelly blows Beyowulf out of the water with this one!
Listen to the mash up (below)!
The 20 Worst Kids’ Foods In America
FROM MSNBC
Here’s a pop quiz:
If you have young children at home, which of the following is likely to eat up the larger percentage of your household income?
A. Books and other educational materials
B. DVDs, CDs, music downloads, and trips to the movies
C. Video games
D. Fast food
You’re probably not surprised to discover that the right answer is D. But you might be surprised to discover that, if you’re a parent, you will most likely spend more on fast food this year than on A, B, and C combined.
Restaurants are no more kind to our children’s health and well-being than they are to our own: The typical burger, soda, and fries that you and I ate as kids contains an average of 214 more calories today than that same meal did in the 1970s — enough to add at least 3 pounds of weight a year to your child’s body, even if he or she ate that fast-food meal just once a week.
Indeed, some of the nutritional stats in the foods restaurants are selling as “kids’ meals” are terrifying. A grilled cheese with as much fat as 25 strips of bacon? A child-size dessert with more than half a day’s worth of calories? And the supermarket aisles offer little salvation.
As a result, childhood obesity rates in America have tripled since 1980 — today, 16 percent of children between the ages of 6 and 19 are overweight or obese. An additional 15 percent of kids are “at risk of becoming overweight or obese.”
Seventy percent of overweight adolescents end up overweight or obese in adulthood. And since obesity increases your odds of heart attack, stroke, and early death, consider the impact of an entire generation of overweight children on our country’s health care system — and families. It’s a chilling thought, especially if one of those children is your own. That’s why we’ve created this list, to help your family make smarter choices today for a healthier tomorrow.
Worst sweetened cereal
20. Cap’n Crunch (1 cup)
146 calories
2 g fat (1 g saturated)
16 g sugars
1 g fiber
The Cap’n’s cereal is the archetypal hypersweetened breakfast. It didn’t make our list by its abundance of fat or calories; it made the list by being among the dominant sources of empty calories in a child’s diet. Aside from the small amount of added vitamins, which are mandated by the government, this cereal is a food scientist’s concoction of worthless foodlike particles and chemicals. Corn flour makes up the bulk of each crunch, and sugar, brown sugar, and coconut oil hold it together. This cereal is also coated with loads of the food colorings yellow 6 and 5, which have been linked to irritability and poor behavior in children.
Worst packaged snack
19. Austin Cheese Crackers with Cheddar Jack Cheese (1 package)
210 calories
10 g fat (2 g saturated, 4 g trans)
370 mg sodium
The calorie count is the least of your concerns with these ubiquitous orange cracker snacks. They made the list because each package contains 2 days’ worth of trans fats. Most of the food industry has figured out how to make foods free of these nasty lipids (which have been proven to raise bad cholesterol); we suggest Austin do the same.
Worst beverage
18. SunnyD Smooth Style (16 ounces)
260 calories
60 g sugars
Remember those commercials where the kid with SunnyD in the fridge always had the coolest mom? What they didn’t tell you was that Mom’s love of the orange stuff was quietly undermining her kid’s well-being. Don’t mistake SunnyD for OJ; there’s just 5 percent real juice in this bottle, which means the other 95 percent is well-marketed sugar water. Do you really want your child slurping down the sugar equivalent of a dozen Chips Ahoy cookies?
Worst side
17. Bob Evans Smiley Face Potatoes
524 calories
31 g fat (6 g saturated)
646 mg sodium
These incessantly smiling potatoes are more than just creepy; they’re more fat- and calorie-packed than Bob’s Sirloin Steak. Let this be a lesson to you youngsters: Just because they’re smiling doesn’t make them nice.
Worst PB&J
16. Atlanta Bread Company Peanut Butter & Jelly
550 calories
15 g fat (3.5 g saturated)
690 mg sodium
34 g sugars
Apparently it’s a bad idea to stick an American classic on French bread. How else could we explain a 550-calorie peanut butter and jelly sandwich? Toss some chips onto that plate and you’ve got a meal that can quickly make a small child big. Make this meal at home instead and you not only save a ton of money, but you can also cut the caloric load by half.
Worst mall snack
15. Auntie Anne’s Pepperoni Pretzel Pocket
650 calories
27 g fat (12 g saturated)
1,120 mg sodium
11 g sugars
Oversize pretzels are already precarious, because they pack a ton of empty carbohydrates. So stuffing a pretzel with sausage is wrapping barbed wire around a fire ax. It will take more than a day of walking around the mall for your kid to burn off all the fat in this greasy fat sponge. (Better warm up that credit card!)
Worst sandwich
14. Au Bon Pain Kids’ Grilled Cheese
670 calories
41 g fat (25 g saturated)
1,060 mg sodium
You wouldn’t even consider feeding your child this if they called it by its real name: an oil sandwich with cheese. So soaked is this sandwich that you’d need to eat 25 strips of cooked bacon to equal the amount of saturated fat found between the two slices. Wait until you get home — in about 5 minutes you can make a pretty mean 300-calorie grilled cheese sandwich.
Worst prepared lunch
13. Oscar Mayer Maxed Out Turkey & Cheddar Cracker Combo Lunchables
680 calories
22 g fat (9 g saturated)
61 g sugars
1,440 mg sodium
Lunchables has established itself as the prepackaged lunch choice for kids, but just because your kids love Lunchables doesn’t mean Lunchables loves your kids. The Maxed Out line is the worst of the lot; Oscar Mayer packs this one with nearly half of an 8-year-old’s daily calorie allotment and sweetens it with more than twice the sugar and fat of most candy bars.
Worst dessert
12. Uno Chicago Grill Kid’s Sundae
860 calories
38 g fat (20 g saturated)
94 g sugars
Consider the repercussions of slapping three Baby Ruth bars’ worth of fat and sugar onto the end of your child’s meal. Weighing in at an astounding 3/4 pound, this abominable sundae is twice as big as the Kid’s Pasta, and twice as caloric as a child’s entire meal should be.
Worst burger
11. Ruby Tuesday Kids Turkey Minis & Fries
873 calories
46 g fat
88 g carbohydrates
When we first pointed out how bad this restaurant kids’ meal was, Ruby Tuesday sprang into action, shrinking the meal down to save … a total of 20 calories. That’s not going to help your child fight obesity and all the health problems that can come with it, not when these mini burgers still have more calories than a Wendy’s formidable Baconator. The best solution? Avoid Ruby’s burgers entirely. Chicken and broccoli, at just 201 calories, is best, but the chop steak plate is like eating a burger without the bun (not to mention all those excess calories).
Worst homestyle meal
10. Boston Market’s Kids’ Meat Loaf with Sweet Potato Casserole and Cornbread
890 calories
46.5 g fat (17.5 g saturated)
131 g carbohydrates
1,500 mg sodium
This is not your mother’s meat loaf — and that’s too bad. This slab-o-meat begins as beef and ends as a science project with 55 ingredients that include the understandable (cheese cultures), the detestable (partially hydrogenated cottonseed oil), and the unpronounceable (azodicarbonamide). Stack the amalgamation next to a sugar-and-cream-injected sweet potato and a starchy piece of cornbread and you’re asking your kid to be the lab rat. We can tell you right now, the results will be big. Roast turkey provides a safe haven for discerning eaters.
Worst pasta meal
9. Romano’s Macaroni Grill Fettuccine Alfredo
890 calories
67 g fat (38 g saturated)
1,480 mg sodium
This plate of noodles has 2 days’ worth of saturated fat — for a full-grown adult! For a kid, this could serve as a precursor for obesity. And to make matters worse, Macaroni Grill likes to throw in a free ice cream with every kids’ meal. They sure don’t make it easy to be a responsible parent.
Worst Mexican meal
8. On the Border Kids Bean and Cheese Nachos
980 calories
57 g fat (29 g saturated)
1,850 mg sodium
On the Border’s Beef Soft Taco meal has been downsized just enough to keep it from topping our list this year. But we’ve spotted several other troubling dishes in the kids’ domain, especially this plate of nachos. It’s hard to imagine how chips, cheese, and beans are transformed into a day and a half worth of saturated fat, but once you see the train wrecks on the adult side of the menu, you begin to understand.
Worst pizza
7. Uno Chicago Grill Kid’s Deep Dish Pepperoni Pizza
980 calories
70 g fat (20 g saturated)
1,860 mg sodium
We analyzed every kids’ pizza in every chain restaurant in America, and these sloppy slices beat out the next closest competitor by 27 grams of fat. Calorie-wise, it’s like eating more than two whole boxes of Bagel Bites.
Worst chicken meal
6. Chili’s Pepper Pals Little Chicken Crispers with Ranch and Homestyle Fries
1,010 calories
75 g fat (13 g saturated)
1,780 mg sodium
A moderately active 8-year-old boy should eat around 1,600 calories a day. This single meal plows through about 65 percent of that allotment. Unless he plans on munching on nothing but celery the rest of the day, he ought to plan on skipping the country-fried crispers.
Worst finger food
5. Denny’s Little Dipper Sampler with Honey Mustard Dressing Dipping Sauce and Deep Space French Fries
1,030 calories
61 g fat (15 g saturated)
1,590 mg sodium
Nuggets, mozzarella sticks, and fries make an unholy trinity of sodium and saturated fat. Parents can choose the convenience of giving their tots something that doesn’t require a fork to eat, but not if it delivers two-thirds of the kid’s daily calories.
Worst drink
4. Baskin-Robbins Small Snickers Shake
1,040 calories
50 g fat
(26 g saturated, 1 g trans)
112 g sugars
Baskin-Robbins has a whole line of these candy-themed shakes to help nudge your child toward a lifetime of elevated blood sugar. How they manage to fit so much fat and sugar into a 16-ounce cup is a mystery of modern food science. This one’s the equivalent of nearly 4 whole Snickers bars. You’re better off giving your kid the real candy.
Worst drive-thru meal
3. Burger King Kids’ Double Cheeseburger with Small Fries and Coke
1,100 calories
52 g fat (17.5 g saturated, 1.5 g trans)
1,870 mg sodium
BK’s double beef earns the distinction of being the fattest meal for an on-the-go kid. It has 18 more grams of fat than the same meal at McDonald’s. The meal might be quick, but it takes a long time for a 90-pound child to burn all those calories.
Worst Chinese entree
2. P.F. Chang’s Crispy Honey Chicken on Brown Rice
1,210 calories
51 g fat (9 g saturated)
610 mg sodium
Although P.F. Chang’s doesn’t offer a proper kids’ menu, this is the item it identifies on its menu as the “Kids’ #1 Favorite.” As a single entrée, this dish will saddle your child with two-thirds of her day’s calories and nearly an entire day’s worth of fat. They put the lazy Susan on the tables at Chang’s for a reason; these dishes need to be shared.
The worst kids’ meal in America
1. Uno Chicago Grill Kids’ Kombo with French Fries
1,250 calories
79 g fat (11.5 g saturated)
2,850 mg sodium
For food marketers, the color of money isn’t green — it’s beige. Any parent knows that most foods kids clamor for, from fries to white bread to chicken nuggets, come in beige. It’s also a marker of cheap, calorie-rich, nutritionally bankrupt foodstuffs. So when you see this monochromatic cluster of cheese sticks, dinosaur-shaped chicken, and fried potatoes, you know your kid’s in trouble. Make it a rule when eating out: All dishes must come with at least two colors (and ketchup doesn’t count).
MSNBC / Children’s Health
So obviously, being a bald man, I don’t need this. But you should check this out…it’s pretty interesting stuff!
10 Drugstore Shampoos You Shouldn’t Buy (Even if they’re on Sale)
If there’s one hair care secret I’d like everyone to know it’s this: you don’t have to spend a lot of money on shampoo to have healthy hair. True, there are great salon and high-end shampoos out there, like any of these that are more than worth their price. But, for most of us, we can get along just fine using a quality drugstore shampoo.
Please note however that I said a quality drugstore shampoo. Because plenty of them just aren’t good enough for your hair. Take, for example, the shampoos below. TotalBeauty.com readers tried them and found they left their hair dirty, dry or greasy — ugh! Peruse the products below, and toss any coupons you may have for them, they’re totally not worth it.
No. 10: Pantene Pro-V Nature Fusion Smooth Vitality Shampoo, $8.33
TotalBeauty.com average reader rating: 5.8 (out of 10)
Why: Most readers weren’t impressed by this. “I don’t think this shampoo and conditioner did anything out of the ordinary for my hair,” one reader says. Another reader says it gave her “the weirdest breakouts on my upper arms.”
No. 9: Suave Professionals Radiant Brunette Shampoo, $3.48
TotalBeauty.com average reader rating: 5.8
Why: Most readers did not find that this enhanced their hair color. Instead it “left my hair rather tangled” and one reader says it actually “stripped away the color!” Others complain that this left them with “straw-like [and] dull” hair. One reader says, “I had colored my hair [and] it went a little too dark. I went to a salon … this is what they used to strip my hair of the color. LOL!”
Check out the tribute that our “On Air With Ryan Seacrest” producer (and Beech Grover) Jason Hammer wrote and performed to pull for his city in Battle Of The Burbs!
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