Americans today use nearly a billion additional gallons of gasoline each year, compared with 1960, solely because they weigh more.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4333

Wow.

not pretty to look at but important.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2008/jun/13/ethiopia.internationalaidanddevelopment?picture=334992148

i think there are four major (and inter-connected) problems in this world:

education, energy, food and health care

looking forward to devoting as much of my life as possible to helping provide solutions to them.

bad ass.



we're capable of so much more than we realize.

Pretty darn awesome.

Been doing a lot of reading today on DHA and the impact it has on so many things.  Strongly (strongly strongly strongly) recommend you do some research yourself on the impact that DHA (or lack thereof as is so often the case with SAD) can have on the human body.  Decided to calculate the cost of various forms of DHA tonight.  Pretty interesting.  Here's what I found:

$13.59/43.2 G of DHA Nature Made Fish OIl (Costco.com) = $0.31/G

$11.25/12 G of DHA NOW Omega Supreme (NutritionGeeks.com) = $0.94/G

$40/40 G of DHA Vital Choice Sockeye Salmon Oil = $1.00/G

$20/12 G of DHA Omega Zen-3 (Sunfood.com) = $1.67/G

$25.19/6 G of DHA Neuromins (SmartBomb.com) = $4.20/G

$89/9.63 G of DHA Vital Choice Wild Alaskan Salmon = $9.24/G

These were calculated by taking the recommended dosages or serving sizes and multiplied by the amount of DHA per dose/serving.  On a per cost/gram basis Fish Oil from Costco is less than a third as expensive as the next leading contender.  However, I'm a little dubious as to how that's sourced and if you're looking for a vegan form of DHA it looks like NOW's Omega Supreme oil might be the way to go.  I've heard a lot about Omega Zen-3 but compared to Omega Supreme it's almost twice the cost per gram.  Neuromins is over four times the cost so unless I'm missing something here I'm not sure why you'd want to go that way.

And the worst choice (at least on a cost/gram basis)?  Salmon itself.  Almost 30 times more expensive than Costco fish oil and about 10 times more expensive than NOW Omega Supreme.  Seems like a pretty inefficient way to get your DHA...

Now I'm not sure all of the other things that go into this analysis and I'd love to hear thoughts on this form of analysis.  At the end of the day it seems like we all should get more DHA in our diet and given that this can get pretty expensive I hope this data helps some people make better choices!

You owe it yourself to watch this movie.  Hell, you owe it to the world to watch this movie.

Crazy that we let something like this happen...again (remember Rwanda?). 

Crazy that so much of the stuff we consider *important* simply pales in comparison with things like this.



At a minimum, please help to raise global consciousness about something like this by educating yourself.

What did the Church Lady use to say...isn't that conveeenient???

35 firms OK'd to bid on Iraq oil deals

Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty. Think big.

-Daniel Burnham

watching the bruins play right now and was forced to watch a commercial for applebee's (i fucking hate commercials). for shits and giggles i thought i'd check out nutritional info for some of the stuff applebee's sells. wow...

http://www.calorie-count.com/calories/item/113225.html
http://www.calorie-count.com/calories/item/113222.html
http://www.calorie-count.com/calories/item/113217.html (that's a salad!!!)

of course this is convenient...

We provide nutritional information on all of our Weight Watchers® items, including fat, fiber and calorie counts and Weight Watchers Points® values. We do not provide nutritional information on other Applebee's® items - with approximately 1,900 locations in the U.S. alone there are many different vendors, which makes it extremely difficult to obtain nutritional information for our items.

unbelievable.

Been inspired by a few people to give this a shot. 

10 days...nothing but juice (and a few assorted oddiities like hemp oil and bee pollen!)

You can see more @ JuiceFeasting.com or if you're like me and can't figure out how to give that site your money just check the web for a myriad of juice feasting blogs.  Here's a great one!

http://rawfoodrightnow.blogspot.com/2008/01/heidi-announcement-i-am-juice-feasting.html