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Posted: 4:23 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013

QUIKKIES: Creepy Facts About Foods You Eat Every Day! 

By Vikki Locke

 

Kristen Wiig is joining the cast of Anchorman 2.


- The NFL is donating its 49ers Super Bowl Championship t-shirts to underprivileged families in Mongolia


- Ratings for Animal Planet's Puppy Bowl jumped by 54% during the Super Bowl blackout.


- Jim Carrey Tweet: "Any1 who would run out to buy an assault rifle after the Newtown massacre has very little left in their body or soul worth protecting."

 

We’re Not Trying To Scare You But…This Is Scary: Creepy Facts About Foods You Eat Every Day from madamnorire.com

Your produce can carry excrement The FDA has deemed certain defects as harmless and allows them in the produce you buy in major stores. Just a few examples: Cinnamon can contain up to 1 milligram of animal excrement per pound, Berries can carry up to 4 larvae per 100 grams and canned pineapple can pack in 20% molded fruit.

Eating healthy is expensive…very expensive Researchers finally crunched the numbers to find out just how much more it costs to eat healthy, versus unhealthy. The results? Shocking. Two thousand calories of junk food will cost you about $3.52 a day. The same number of calories from nutritious food costs you about $36 a day. The worst part is 81% of that price you’re paying isn’t for the actual food, but for marketing, manufacturing and packaging.

You’re not entitled to knowing where your salad comes from When it comes to fresh produce, grocers must inform you where the food came from. But with mixed produce—like prewashed and packaged bags of “mixed greens”—you’re not entitled to any of that information. This poses a real problem considering the CDC named leafy greens one of the top foods to carry food borne illnesses. But if you hear an announcement of an E. Coli outbreak in spinach from a certain country, you have no way of knowing if that spinach made it into your mixed green bag.

Fruits and veggies aren’t as potent as they used to be The USDA reports that fruits and vegetables today contain significantly fewer nutrients than they did two generations ago. Researchers examined 43 types of produce and found an average 15% drop in iron and a 20% drop in Vitamin C.

Calorie counts aren’t always honest Out of 42 sit-down and fast-food chains analyzed, researchers found that nearly 20% of them were under-reporting the calorie content of their food by 100 calories or more. That’s alarming considering that regularly eating 100 more calories than necessary could add up to a 10 lb. weight gain in just one year.

 

Hate Your Co-Workers? Get A Bubble Desk

 Work presents many problems for workers -- among them is sharing space with some people you'd probably prefer to avoid. There may be a solution. A new product called the "bubble desk," designed by the French firm of Christian Pottgiesser, allows office workers to enclose themselves at their workstations, reports Britain's Daily Mail. [CHECK IT OUT!]

 

Cat Uses All 9 Lives: The world’s longest cat has died from cancer. Stewie measured 48.5 inches. His owner, Robin Hendrickson, says, "Stewie was always very social and loved meeting new people. He has touched many lives and for that I am grateful. I knew that although we could fight it, the end was near," said Hendrickson. "I wanted to simply make him comfortable and let him enjoy the time he did have."

 

 

 No Show: Next year's Super Bowl may not have a halftime show because the game is being played in New York. A source tells the NY Post, ''It’s because of the cold weather. It’s not only the acts and the singers, but also the crews that have to put the stage together. You know, the assembly has to be done a certain way. It’s choreographed and rehearsed so it can be assembled and disassembled as fast as possible. And you just can’t assemble the stage and break it down fast enough in the cold. There’s no plan right now of what to do in its place.''

Another source says, ''The NFL is freaking out about these issues because they’ve never done a cold-weather Super Bowl.''

 

 Gold Roses: Jewelry Box Direct is selling 24 karat gold roses for Valentine's Day. The roses are dipped in gold in either California or Thailand and retail for around $75 a piece.

 

Special Delivery: Bears QB Jay Cutler proposed to Kristin Cavallari by sending her ring in the mail. She tells E!, "It was so silly. I was in the airport, leaving Chicago. We had just spent however many days together and we were texting and somehow it came up, like, 'Oh, shall we get married?' We're like, 'Yeah, OK.' And then he sent my ring in the mail. So I actually had my ring sitting at home for a couple of weeks before I put it on."

 

 

DELETED: Manti Te'o's Twitter account has been deleted. Before it was removed, it featured a quote from 'The Count of Monte Cristo' that read: "Life is a storm ...You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes."

 

 

A new survey by Match.com reveals that singles in their 20s are the most likely to check out a partner's Facebook profile (29%), text messages (26%), and email (18%) than any other age group. Nearly 1/4 (22%) of all single women still admit to searching a date's pockets, drawers or closets, while singles in their 30s and 40s are the most likely to look through a partner's medicine cabinet (44% and 38%, respectively).

 

 

10 Things You Definitely Should Not Give Your Significant Other On Valentine’s Day from thedailycaller.com

Valentine Golf Balls, nuff said.

Do not suggest the “gift” of a threesome. Not the right time.

Edible Arrangements suggest that your beloved isn’t good enough for real cupcakes and only cupcakes made out of fruit. This makes us sad.

You should DEFINITELY NOT give your woman a $29,000, four feet tall teddy bear with an accompanying diamond ring. This is perhaps the most offensive item on this list. Even if this were free, you should not give it to anyone ever.

Because nothing says, “I’m kind of over you” like a household appliance.

Do you really need an explanation for why you shouldn’t give your boyfriend/ girlfriend a gym membership? You’re on your own on this one.

A candy bra. No matter how awesome you think this is, she probably won’t.

No matter how much you want your husband to take the hint that he should do more stuff around the house, don’t get him a lawnmower. Wait until the day after.

“_______ for Dummies” isn’t the right message to send on Valentine’s Day, no matter how dumb your boyfriend or girlfriend may be.

“Hey honey, I couldn’t think of what to get you for Valentine’s Day, so I decided to pull out all the stops to PLAN YOUR FUNERAL.”

 

 

 

5 Tips To Lose Weight And Keep It Off from abcnews.com

Tip 1: Ditch the Soda
It takes 3 miles brisk walking to burn off calories from 20 oz. soda. Easier to avoid soda.

Tip 2: Start Small
Make small changes you can live with and then build on that feeling of success. Make small consistent improvements to your diet. Better long-term success than radical, wholesale changes.

Tip 3: Write It Down
Keeping a food journal will help you become aware of what and when you are eating. You may be amazed at what you find. Never underestimate the power of food journaling. It’s one of the most tried and true weight loss strategies.

Tip 4: Have a Healthy Stash
Keep your pantry and refrigerator stocked with healthy food. If you get the junk food out of the house, you will have fewer opportunities to eat those empty calories. A terrific route to a healthy diet is to fill up on healthy foods, squeezing out the junk.

Tip 5: Add Movement to the Mix
While changing your diet is most important, exercise can help. For adults, key to keeping weight off is daily exercise. Look for opportunities. Take the stairs whenever you get the chance.

 

 

Anti Social

A new survey by the Pew Research Center reveals that 60% of adults have taken a 'Facebook vacation'. Other findings:

- 27% of users plan to spend less time on Facebook in 2013

- Of those who took a "Facebook vacation"—staying away from the site for a period of several weeks or more—21% said they did so because they were "too busy," while 10% cited a "general lack of interest." Another 10% blamed a "lack of compelling content''. Nine percent said they were turned off by the "excessive gossip or drama," while 8% said they worried they were spending too much time on the site.

 

 
 


 

 

The StarTrib claims Olympic gold medal skier Lindsey Vonn spent time with Kris Humphries before allegedly dating Tiger Woods. Last summer, Vonn and Humphries were spotted on Big Island, on Lake Minnetonka and at his home.

Vonn crashed yesterday at the world skiing championships in Austria. She was taken to the hospital with a knee injury. Vonn tore the anterior cruciate and medial collateral ligaments in her knee and also suffered a lateral tibia plateau fracture, which involves the upper surface of the shin bone. She lost balance on her right leg while landing after a jump.

 

 

Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux have allegedly enrolled in a marriage boot camp. A source tells Grazia magazine, ''Jennifer and Justin are super excited about their big day, but she thought it would be a good idea to start married life rid of any problems. Justin seems to be as much a believer in the therapy as Jennifer is. On arrival, they had to hand over their mobile phones and undertake counseling, couple massages and screaming therapy - where you howl your feelings out at the top of your voice. It was pretty tough going and they had to address all of their deepest fears and worries.''

 

Channing Tatum and UFC champ Cung Le wrestled at Tatum’s New Orleans bar, Saints and Sinners, over the weekend. A source tells the NY Post, “They were putting each other in headlocks and chokeholds. At the end of their match, the two gave each other a big bear hug, and everyone realized they are friends.'

 

 

Courteney Cox is going to guest star on Matthew Perry's show, Go On. E! says Anne (Julie White) meets Cox's character and tries to set her up with Ryan (Perry).

 

The Price Is Right Reveals Celebrity Week Contestants

Monday, Feb. 18: Musician brothers Nick and Drew Lachey play for Camp Joy

Tuesday, Feb. 19: Real Housewives of Atlanta and The New Normal star NeNe Leakes plays for Saving Our Daughters

Wednesday, Feb. 20: The Talk co-host Sharon Osbourne plays for The Sharon Osbourne Colon Cancer Program

Thursday, Feb. 21: NBA Hall of Fame inductee and sports commentator Charles Barkley plays for The Mustard Seed School

Friday, Feb. 22: Singer and The X Factor judge Demi Lovato plays for Free the Children

 

 

Vanilla Ice is launching his own line of chandeliers and lighting

 

A photo album helped Pink reunite with her husband. She says, ''Eleven months after we broke up, he asked me to fly to Las Vegas to perform on New Year's Eve at his club. I wanted to see him. And I looked hot. Anyway, after sound check I told him that he needed to come to my room. I had made him a photo album of all the cards he had ever given me, of all the photos of our entire relationship. I spent months on this album. On the last page, I pasted a photo of me from a really bad movie I made years ago with my neck slit and blood everywhere. Next to it I wrote, 'This is me without you.' On the next page, there was a picture of a baby. And I wrote: 'The rest is unwritten.'''

 

 Bruno Mars' sisters, Jaime, Presley, Tahiti and Tiara, are getting their own reality show on WE TV. It will follow their group The Lylas

 

 Katy Perry is planning to launch her own fashion label

 

Carrie Underwood wants a woman to win Idol. She says, "You never know who or why people vote a certain way. The way the voting goes has a lot to do with the audience watching the show. I don't know how I pulled off a win the year I was on. That year, they said a guy was gonna win and they were wrong, fortunately. Thank goodness. I'm always excited to watch the show and definitely will throw in some votes of my own. I would like to see another female take it home, I think it's time."

 

 

 

QUIKKIES COURTESY OF SHEETHAPPENS

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