The challenge is one millions Americans face each day - feeding themself and their family with just $3.00 per person, per day. Patt Morrison wrote of her experience trying to do shop with $21 for a week as a vegetarian in the LA Times.In the long run, it takes money to eat thin and healthy. For $3 a day — which is what you get when you divide 30 days into the $155 monthly food stamp allowance for one person — you wind up on the fatty-salty-sugary-canned-processed-bottled diet. Get heart disease on $3 a day! Ask the government how! [empahsis hers]She highlighted that "Several members of Congress took the food stamp challenge, and now two of them, a Missouri Republican and a Massachusetts Democrat, are trying to make the food stamp fund a little bigger and to guarantee that combat-zone pay doesn't knock military families off the food stamp eligibility list (yes, there are food stamp debit cards in the pockets of U.S.

Pepsi, Sunny Delight, Shasta, Rockstar, Polar and Publix Among The ...

In the wake of Coca Cola's settlement of litigation related to the presence of benzene in popular soft drinks (see below), parents and their attorneys called upon the remaining defendants -- including soft drink giant PepsiCo and youth beverage companies Sunny Delight, Shasta and Rockstar -- to reformulate their beverages, remove potentially harmful product from store shelves, and offer refunds to consumers who purchased beverages with ingredients that can combine to form benzene, a known carcinogen. Hundreds of million of bottles of the soft drinks were sold each year -- Pepsi sold more than 200 million bottles of Diet Wild Cherry Pepsi in 2006 alone. Diet Wild Cherry Pepsi, Sunny D Baja Orange, and other products with the hazardous ingredients are still on store shelves. The two ingredients, ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) and sodium benzoate, can combine to form benzene when exposed to heat or light.

Top 10 Ways To Raise Your Consciousness

1. Forgive yourself and others: Life is too short to hold on to regrets, grudges, miscommunications, or disappointments. Free yourself by forgiving and letting go of any negative energy you're holding on to about yourself or others. The process of forgiving yourself and others will result in your feeling light and free; it will raise your vibration.

2. Practise gratitude and appreciation: Whatever you focus on grows. So, when you focus on every thing in your life you feel grateful for all and the wonderful people you appreciate, the universe hands you more to feel grateful about.

3. Live each day as though it were your last: Then you will be living in a state of light, love and unconditional contribution. What would you say to the people you care about?

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NewsCenter Extra: Search Leads to Celiac Disease

ROCHESTER, MN -- For 10 years a mother would search for answers for her Autistic son. Little did she know a change in his diet would change their lives. Twelve-year-old Nathan Zarling has a laugh that is infectious. He is the youngest of three and lives on a farm in rural Plainview. His mother is his teacher, his mentor and his biggest supporter. Nathan was born with autism. A condition that would bring a world of challenges into this young man's life and that of his family. Janine Zarling, Nathan's mom says, "He would come home and litterally crash. He would pound his head on the wall just about every day and we saw a therapist at mayo and he said he's bottling all of his emotions up and he's coming home in his comfort zone and unleashing them." His parents would chalk up his moods, outbursts and picky eating habits to Autism.

Monday, August 6th, 2007

The state of the labor union has not been a particularly happy one in recent years, what with automation, technology and a diminished sense of fraternal solidarity having sapped the threat of the major weapon in labor's arsenal, the walkout. But that has not stopped the talk among a new class of oppressed worker of […]

Spurlock Hopes to Finish Bin Laden Doc In Time for Toronto Fest

Morgan Spurlock is at it again with another spellbinding documentary. This time it has nothing to do with feeding on heart-stopping foods like in Super Size Me, but with the continued search for one of the most famous men in the world, Osama bin Laden. The doc apparently details the hunt for Bin Laden, and Spurlock is currently rushing back and forth from the Middle East to capture completion footage in time for the Toronto Film Festival.The film is already greatly anticipated and its rights were purchased (by The Weinstein Co.) during the Berlin fest -- few details have been released to date, however. Spurlock's lips, along with anyone working on the project, are tightly sealed. Here's one detail -- the director of photography, Daniel Marracino, told Variety, "Visually, this film is going to be gorgeous."Spurlock's body of work often puts him right in the middle of the danger zone.

Driver, Kampman, Colledge, Jennings & Hawk To Receive Awards At ...

The Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame Thursday announced Donald Driver, Aaron Kampman, Daryn Colledge, A.J. Hawk and Greg Jennings all will receive awards honoring last season's accomplishments at the 37th Hall of Fame Induction Banquet, to be held the evening of July 21, 2007, in the Lambeau Field Atrium. Robert Brooks and LeRoy Butler will become the 135th and 136th members of the Hall.

Driver and Kampman will be co-honored as the team's 'Most Valuable Player.' Driver, a repeat winner of the team MVP award, went to his second Pro Bowl following a 2006 season that saw him record career-highs in catches (92) and receiving yards (1,295) to go along with eight touchdowns. He also extended his streak of games with a reception to 80, the second-longest stretch in Packers history.