The New Jersey Beef Recall has been expanded due to additional samples tested by the New York Health Department that found more E coli contamination in meat produced and packaged at Topps meat packing plant in New Jersey. An additional 21.7 million pounds of beef are being recalled.
Source: USDA Recall Site
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“I trust the perfection of the universe”
Send out love and harmony, put your mind and body in a peaceful place, and then allow the inverse to work in the perfect way that it knows how.
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When I think of weight loss motivation I think of what motivates me is the desire to see the end result. However, quite simply motivation is defined as the direction and intensity of one’s effort. So in respect to weight loss motivation can be construed as self motivation to lose the weight once and for all.
Motivation often wanes when we are three weeks into a diet and we aren’t getting those fast results we had hoped we would see. You have to remember that slow and steady wins the race in weight loss. You should only be losing about two to three pounds a week for safe weight loss. There are other contributing factors to motivation though. We want the approval from others. We want people to see that we have finally lost the weight and look great. I have a friend named Paula who lost weight and she looks fabulous. I try to keep her motivated to keep it off by offering positive words of reinforcement.
Peer pressure is another thing that motivates people to lose weight. The most blatant form of peer pressure is the media hype that focuses on thin being in. I had to applaud Tyra Banks when she told the media to kiss her fat black ass on national TV. The media had distorted her image to gain readership and when I actually saw this gross misrepresentation of how one actually looks to how the media tries to depict them to make a buck I was sickened. With the media there will never be a happy medium they drag celebrities through the mud for being too thin and then drag them through the same puddle of mud for being too fat.
There are things that we can do to keep us motivated to keep losing the weight. Yes this sounds redundant I am sure but all I ask is that you try at least one of the five things I am going to mention that I am using to keep me motivated to lose weight and keep it off.
Now for men I realize this would be too feminine of a list to try so maybe you could try:
In order to stay motivated to lose weight you still need to reward yourself. The trick is learning to reward yourself without the food reward system
Make a batch of these to freeze for easy breakfasts and snacks. If you don’t have currants — tiny, dried, sweet Zante grapes — substitute dark or golden raisins or snipped dried plums (prunes).
Double-A Applesauce Muffins
Makes 18 muffins
Ingredients:
1 3/4 cups whole-grain pastry flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup fat-free plain yogurt
1 large egg
3 tablespoons dark brown sugar
2 tablespoons canola oil
2 medium Golden Delicious apples, grated
3/4 cup unsweetened applesauce
1/2 cup currants
To Make:
Preheat the oven to 375°F. Coat 18 muffin cups with cooking spray. (Don’t use paper liners.) In a large bowl, stir together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt. In a medium bowl, whisk together the yogurt, egg, brown sugar, and oil until smooth. Stir in the apples, applesauce, and currants.
Pour the apple mixture into the dry ingredients and stir until just blended. Spoon the batter evenly into the prepared cups, filling them nearly to the top. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, or until springy to the touch and lightly browned. Turn out onto a wire rack to cool.
Per muffin: 100 calories, 19 g carbohydrates, 2 g protein, 2 g total fat, 10 mg cholesterol, 3 g dietary fiber, 115 mg sodium
This story ran Wednesday and I just got to read it today. I thought I would share it with my readers because it affects all of us. I think that this is going to be a positive step in the right direction for getting big pharma to take more responsibility for it’s advertising practices. This new legislation will also allow for better access to generic drugs a measure I could have used last year when I found out that Zoloft had gone generic by my case worker at voc rehab instead of through my medical card provider who actually encourages the filling of prescription drugs in the generic form first before going with the brand name. As it was they didn’t even pay for my Zoloft I had to go through voc rehab to get that expense covered or go through my nurse practitioners office to get samples. Yeah it has been about a year now since this not so nice roadblock in my depression treatment was thrown in my way, and I should build a bridge and get over it, however, I have to keep reminding people of this because it could have happened to them. I hope that in the future that somewhere along the line people who are on a state medical card will get access to information about the prescritopns they get covered regularly through the medical card such as when it will be offered as a generic, when and perhaps a few other things.
So with that being said here is the story that ran this week.
Published: September 19, 2007
WASHINGTON (AdAge.com) — The House of Representatives today voted 405 to 7 to endorse new drug-approval procedures that allow the Food and Drug Administration for the first time to fine marketers for misleading direct-to-consumer drug ads.
Curbs, including a ban on ads for all new drugs in a products first two to three years, did not make it into the bill passed today in the House.
Ad groups today hailed the legislation, which could be considered by the Senate tonight and sent to President George W. Bush next week, as a major win for the industry because it avoids ad curbs that had been initially a threat. The final compromise legislation leaves out a number of curbs that could have had a significant impact on the more than $4.5 billion spent annually on DTC ads.
‘Significant victory’
“It is one of the most significant victories for advertising and commercial speech in the past two decades,” said Jim Davidson, lobbyist for the ad and media groups. “It was an earned victory attributable to very hard work on the part of a broad coalition of media and advertising associations and companies.”
Originally both House and Senate leaders had suggested the FDA be allowed to ban ads for new drugs in a product’s first two or three years and further proposed that all ads for new drugs carry a special logo and a warning that not all side effects may have been found. There had also been proposals to require drug makers to devote more ad space to warnings and strike a better balance between positive and negative messages.
None of those made it into the final bill.
Instead, as passed, the legislation’s main effect is to boost the number of people at the FDA who will review ads. It also gives the FDA new authority to fine advertisers up to $250,000 a day for continuing to run any ads challenged as misleading and up to $500,000 a day for a second instance within three years.
In addition, the bill gives the FDA resources to study whether requiring ads to include a phone number to report drug problems would be beneficial.
Range of FDA issues
The new limits are part of broad legislation that also affects how the FDA inspects foods and drugs and tracks reports of drug problems and the fees marketers pay to get FDA approval.
Advances in some of those other areas were praised by representatives and senators. “This bill will give FDA urgently needed new resources, strengthen FDA’s ability to protect consumers from dangerous drugs, provide important incentives to develop drugs for children, safeguard the food we give our families and feed to our pets, help reduce the cost of medicine by ending abusive practices that deny consumers access to generic drugs, and address many other urgent priorities that face the nation,” said Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., who chairs the Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee.
Though he said he wasn’t happy with some of the compromises made, “after so many recent instances in which Americans have been harmed by unsafe prescription drugs and contaminated food, America cannot afford inaction on this important measure.”
Our home on Runboard has been doing better. We retained two core members from our early days on Yahoo and MSN. Since then and moving onto Runboard we had struggled a bit but we are now up to 24 members. I am now only 9 members away from needing the 33 members we had when we moved from MSN. You can visit my forum and look at my evolving fall theme. I have only been adding minimal things at best until more interest has been shown again. However, there is still plenty of good information on the site. So please I encourage anyone to go take a look at the forum and please join Runboard and my forum.
“I am a worthwhile human being”
You are always a valuable worthwhile human being-not because anybody else says so,not because you’re making money-but because you decide to know it.
Thinking of kicking your walking routine up a notch with jogging? You should! It’s a great way to burn even more calories and reap additional cardiovascular benefits at the same time! But remember, the key to success — and to avoiding injuries — is starting off on the right foot! The experts at The American Physical Therapy Association offer these tips for new joggers:
