Artwork by Madam Toussaint
There are different versions of this tongue twister nursery rhyme but this is closest to the one I remember.
Aren’t ingredients important? The wrong butter almost took Betty’s batter out! Seems worthwhile to consider the ingredients we put in our batters and our bodies.
Photo Credit: Sea Turtle
I guess the short answer is healthy. The longer answer is addressed in a list on about.com featuring 50 ways to fill an Easter basket and nowhere on this list is candy.
It’s not just sugar in a chocolate bunny worth avoiding here, there’s also the dyes, especially that funny tasting one on those marshmallow chicks. Another consideration allergies. You might as well through food sensitivities in there too. (more…)
I know I’m such a snitch, but at the risk of getting stitches for that I had to post this.It’s all true- I have pictures.
Chef Jamie Oliver is bringing his food revolution to America and promoting healthy diets for kids all across the country not unlike our new first lady Michelle Obama.
Wendy showed a clip of “Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution,” which brought her to tears…then he fed her! (more…)
Here in New York City there’s a war going on outside no man is safe from. No not that war or those wars, The Soda Tax Wars.
Our mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is calling for a penny-per-ounce tax on soda to deal with budget cuts for health care and education.
Of course this is all under the guise of this new measure being for your own good, after all you and your kids are fat remember? Who can forget this charming anti soda ad?
The fact is the city is looking for money and health issues are a smokescreen for that. I’ve seen ads on TV with a Latino store owner talking about how this tax will hurt his Black, Latino and lower income customers in the Bronx. Check it out below. (more…)
I became diabetic in May of 1990. It’s hereditary.
My moms is diabetic but even growing up seeing her having to take insulin shots and things of that nature, I didn’t take heed because I was still waking up to a glass of Quik, you know what I’m saying?
Oreo cookies for breakfast, just stupid shit. It didn’t make it any better that we were on the road performing, eating KFC, McDonalds, shit like that and I was going hard when we was younger…
We did Low End. We did Midnight, Beats, Rhymes, The Love Movement, all of that but I wasn’t always taking care of myself and it finally caught up to me when we broke up. ~Phife
Phife of the legendary Hip Hop group A Tribe called Quest has recently had an interview with okayplayer.com where he opened up about his struggle with diabetes. (more…)
