Simple Food Soynut Butter
January 22nd, 2008
I must admit that I love me some peanut butter, but these super cute and super healthy soynut butters from Simple Food might just convince me to branch out!
In addition to the No Salt, No Sugar version for purists, the offerings include Slightly Salted, Slightly Sweet, Cinnamon Sugar and even Chocolate!
The butters are peanut-free, tree nut-free, gluten-free, certified organic, vegan AND kosher, so whatever your particular dietary hangup, these soynut butters are bound to fit the bill.
To be honest, I just can’t wait to open my pantry door and see these adorable jars sitting on the shelf! Now I just need to find the perfect jelly…
FDA Bans Cold Meds for Kids
January 17th, 2008
If your kid is suffering through a runny nose and cough this winter, you may be tempted to reach for the same cold medicine you take for your own cold symptoms.
According to an FDA ruling issued today, however, cold medicines for children, especially children under the age of 2, can be potentially life threatening.
According to MSNBC,
Thursday’s advisory marks the government’s first ruling on the issue: Don’t give the drugs to children under 2. And it comes now because the FDA is worried that parents haven’t gotten that message despite all the publicity last fall.
They may still have infant-targeted drugs at home, or they may buy drugs meant for older children to give to hacking tots instead, said Dr. Charles Ganley, FDA’s nonprescription drugs chief.
“We still have a concern,” Ganley said. “It falls out of people’s consciousness. We’re still in the middle of cold season right now.”
Time to head into your medicine cabinet and throw away all of those boxes of children’s cold and flu meds!
Election 2008: This Season’s Best New Show
January 14th, 2008
The NY Times ran a story today talking about how the Hollywood writer’s strike has been the best thing for CNN’s election coverage since… well, since a woman and an African-American man became the front runners for the Democratic presidential nomination.
According to the NY Times,
“This one is special,” he said. “You have the Clintons, a powerful dysfunctional family — remember they were the ones that spoofed ‘The Sopranos’ — you have this out of nowhere handsome stranger in Obama that is straight out of ‘Heroes.’ John McCain, left for dead in a previous episode, roars back to life, and Mitt Romney, who is a dead ringer for John Forsythe. And I am not the first to point out that Mike Huckabee is Jim Nabors.
“And then it all ends in this amazing ‘American Idol’ big episode on Super Tuesday. How can you not watch that? My wife had some minor surgery the other day and the nurse asked her if she wanted to just lay there in the recovery room and rest a little bit. And she said, ‘No thanks, I have to get home and watch ‘The Situation Room.’ ”
All of this is great, but what are we going to do after the season finale on Super Tuesday?
Please, Mayor Bloomberg, enter the race and keep the show going until November!
Here Comes Another Bubble
January 13th, 2008
The mantra of this blog has always been “Know better. Do better.”
Well, this YouTube video is less about doing good, but after my years spent in the first round of the Internet bubble, it does remind me that we should all know better. Plus, it’s just kinda funny.
Enjoy!
Select a Candidate Quiz
January 13th, 2008
Which candidate are you voting for in the upcoming elections?
With the endless media discussion of who cried and who didn’t, who is most likeable and who is most electable, do you really know where your candidate stands on the issues? Will they vote the way you would?
Check out the Select a Candidate Quiz sponsored by news station WQAD:
Obviously, this particular set of issues doesn’t capture the universe of reasons to vote for a candidate, but I have to admit that I took the quiz with some surprising results!
Have fun with it and remember to get to your state primary!