So I don’t have time to write everything that I REALLY feel about the following but I am curious as to what others think. This is the mentoring tip I received in an e-newsletter:
Mentor Tip of the Month
While we encourage our students to leave the slang at the door when they enter an internship, sometimes it still comes out every once in awhile.
This month’s mentor tip gives you some insider information to understand your student intern or to up your cool factor by dropping a piece of slang into your conversation sometime.
• Wut It Dew – How are you doing?
• Coogi – cool, good
• Swag – style
• Fresh, tight, or clean – dressed nice
• Yo – hello
• On my mama – I’m so serious

Diet & Nutrition & African Americans – BlackDoctor.org – 8 Foods That Shrink Belly Bloat

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Here is another interesting message from my e-mail in-box and the reason why I must go see FOOD INC ASAP!

This is interesting . ..
Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys. When it killed the turkeys, the people who had put all the money into the research wanted a payback so they put their heads together to figure out what to do with this product to get their money back. It was a white substance with no food appeal so they added the yellow colouring and sold it to people to use in place of butter. How do you like it? They have come out with some clever new flavourings….

DO YOU KNOW… the difference between margarine and butter?
Read on to the end…gets very interesting!

Both have the same amount of calories.
Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams compared to 5 grams.
Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over eating the same amount of butter, according to a recent Harvard Medical Study.
Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in other foods.
Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few
only because they are added!
Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the flavours of other foods.
Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been around for less than 100 years .

And now, for Margarine..

Very high in Trans fatty acids.
Triple risk of coronary heart disease .
Increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) and lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol)
Increases the risk of cancers up to five fold….
Lowers quality of breast milk.
Decreases immune response.
Decreases insulin response.

And here’s the most disturbing fact…. HERE IS THE PART THAT IS VERY INTERESTING!

Margarine is but one molecule away from being PLASTIC..

This fact alone was enough to have me avoiding margarine for life and anything else that is hydrogenated (this means hydrogen is added, changing the molecular structure of the substance).

You can try this yourself:

Purchase a tub of margarine and leave it in your garage or shaded area. Within a couple of days you will note a couple of things:

* no flies, not even those pesky fruit flies will go near it (that should tell you something)
* it does not rot or smell differently because it has no nutritional value ; nothing will grow on it. Even those teeny weenie micro organisms will not a find a home to grow.

Why? Because it is nearly plastic . Would you melt your Tupperware and spread that on your toast?

Share This With Your Friends…..(If you want to ‘butter them up’)!

Chinese Proverb:
‘When someone shares something of value with you and you benefit from it, you have a moral obligation to share it with others.’
Pass the BUTTER PLEASE

Saw this in Green Piece Indy Newsletter about my alma mater and current FT employer…
University Place Conference Center and Hotel
We would love to go on about this hotel on the campus of IUPUI, but we couldn’t fit it all into one paragraph. Highlights include recycling on guestroom floors, CFLs in all guestrooms, using green cleaning products, offering BeeKind toiletries (a product that supports the bee population), switching from bottled water and juices in meeting rooms and break stations to water coolers and glass pitchers, donating leftover toiletries to a local shelter and leftover conference supplies to the local Backpack Attack school supply drive, offering cage-free eggs, hormone-free milk, sustainable seafood, and local dairy products in the hotel restaurants; a refueling and no-idling policy for the hotel shuttle, and a slew of green policies for hotel staff, too. Look for coupons in Green Savings Indy!

http://greenpieceindy.com/blog/?p=180

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Navigating the Naturals Market – HAPPI

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INTERESTING – Anyone out there reading my oh-so-random postings these days – I’d LOVE to hear your thoughts!

Nia Long to Beyoncé: Stay in Your Lane

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Best line today…Let’s get that idea out of your notebook and into your bank account.
~Richelle Shaw

This commentary is thought provoking! I was JUST speaking with a friend yesterday about the sad, sad state of black male/female relationships. Dating, Married or otherwise ALL relationships have challenges but it seems that cheating, communication, disrespect, inequity and just down right disfunction are WAY to prevalent these days.

Knowing Why Michelle Chose Barack Won’t Help You Find a Mate

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Not business as usual for small businesses | IndyStar.com | The Indianapolis Star

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