Eating out invariably raises a number of tricky questions: sit-down or drive-thru? Burgers or pizza? Thin or stuffed crust? And if you're dining with your family, add the biggest question of all: Will the food we eat today bring a fatter tomorrow for our kids? And fewer tomorrows for the rest of us?
So the choice between McDonald’s and Burger King shouldn’t be based solely on whether you're more terrified by the scary clown Ronald McDonald or that creepy masked Burger King. Choosing one over the other could be the difference of hundreds of calories in a meal, more than 10 unnecessary pounds over the course of a year, and countless health woes over the course of a lifetime.
During more than a year of research, my coauthor and I discovered vast dietary discrepancies between many of the places Americans love to eat most. So to help you separate the commendable from the deplorable, we put 43 major chain restaurants under the nutritional microscope — both for your benefit, and that of your family.
How did we judge the restaurants? We started by calculating the average number of calories per kid entrée, then rewarded restaurants for having healthy adult options that would appeal to the young palette, and for providing healthy vegetable sides and non-soda drink options. Finally, we docked points for those restaurants still harboring nasty trans fats.
The result is a Restaurant Report Card that holds each eating establishment fully accountable for the fare they’re serving up to all of us — moms, dads, kids, teens, and twentysomethings — along with a survival strategy for making it through any meal unscathed.
Did your favorite restaurant make the grade?
A
Chick-fil-A
Chick-fil-A excels in every category we tested for. With a slew of low-calorie sandwiches, the country’s “healthiest” chicken nugget, a variety of solid sides like fresh fruit and soup that can be substituted into any meal, and nutritional brochures readily available for perusing at each location, Chick-fil-A earns the award for America’s Healthiest Chain Restaurant (for kids, for the adults who drive them there, plus anybody else wise enough to make it their fast food choice).
Your Survival Strategy: Even the smartest kid in the class can still fail a test, so be on your toes at all times, even at Chik-fil-A. Skip salads with ranch or Caesar dressings, any sandwich with bacon, and avoid milkshakes at all costs.
A-
Subway
A menu based on lean protein and vegetables is always going to score well in our book. With more than half a dozen sandwiches under 300 calories, plus a slew of soups and healthy sides to boot, Subway can satisfy even the pickiest eater without breaking the caloric bank.
But, despite what Jared may want you to believe, Subway is not nutritionally infallible: Those rosy calorie counts posted on the menu boards include neither cheese nor mayo (add 160 calories per 6-inch sub) and some of the toasted subs, like the Meatball Marinara, contain hefty doses of calories, saturated fat, and sodium.
Your Survival Strategy: Cornell researchers have discovered a “health halo” at Subway, which refers to the tendency to reward yourself or your kid with chips, cookies, and large soft drinks because the entrée is healthy. Avoid the halo, and all will be well.
B+
Boston Market
With more than a dozen healthy vegetable sides and lean meats like turkey and roast sirloin on the menu, the low-cal, high-nutrient possibilities at Boston Market are endless. But with nearly a dozen calorie-packed sides and fatty meats like dark meat chicken and meat loaf, it’s almost as easy to construct a lousy meal.
Your Survival Strategy: There are three simple steps to nutritional salvation: 1) Start with turkey, sirloin, or rotisserie chicken. 2) Add two noncreamy, nonstarchy vegetable sides. 3) Ignore all special items, such as pot pie and nearly all of the sandwiches.
B
McDonald’s
Though not blessed with an abundance of healthy options, Mickey D’s isn’t burdened with any major calorie bombs, either. Kid standards like McNuggets and cheeseburgers are both in the acceptable 300-calorie range.
Your Survival Strategy: Apple Dippers and 2% milk with a small entrée makes for a pretty decent meal-on-the-go. McDonald’s quintessential Happy Meal® makes this possible — just beware the usual French fries and soda pitfalls. Adults should go for a Quarter Pounder without cheese.
C+
Domino’s
Domino’s suffers the same pitfalls of any other pizza purveyor: too much cheese, bread, and greasy toppings. If you don’t order carefully, you might bag your child a pizza with more than 350 calories per slice. To its credit, Domino’s does keep the trans fat off the pizza, and it also offers the lowest-calorie thin crust option out there.
Your Survival Strategy: Stick with the Crunchy Thin Crust pizzas sans sausage and pepperoni. If your must order meat, make sure it's ham. And whenever possible, try to sneak on a vegetable or two per pie.
C
Burger King
BK has only four legitimate kids’ entrées on the menu, and none of them — French Toast Sticks, hamburger, mac and cheese, chicken tenders — are particularly healthy. And while the recent addition of Apple Fries provides a much-needed healthy side alternative for kids, the menu is still sullied with trans fats.
BK pledged to follow in the wake of nearly every other chain restaurant and remove trans fats from the menu by the end of 2008, but so far, we’ve seen little action.
Your Survival Strategy: Adults can sign on for the Whopper Junior and a Garden Salad, and escape with only 365 calories. The best kids’ meal? A 4-piece Chicken Tenders®, applesauce or Apple Fries, and water or milk. Beyond that, there is little hope of escaping unscathed.
D
Chipotle
We applaud Chipotle’s commitment to high-quality produce and fresh meats, but even the most pristine ingredients can’t dampen the damage wrought by the massive portion sizes served up here. The lack of options for kids means young eaters are forced to tussle with one of Chipotle’s massive burritos or taco platters, which can easily top 1,000 calories.
Your Survival Strategy: Stick to the crispy tacos or burrito bowls, or saw a burrito in half.
F
Applebee’s, IHOP, Olive Garden, Outback, Red Lobster, T.G.I. Friday’s
These titans of the restaurant industry are among the last national chains to not provide nutritional information on their dishes. Even after years of communication with their representatives, we still here the same old excuses: it’s too pricey, it’s too time-consuming, it’s impossible to do accurately because their food is so fresh. Our response is simple: If every other chain restaurant in the country can do it, then why can’t they?
Your Survival Strategy: Write letters, make phone calls, beg, scream, and plead for these restaurants to provide nutritional information on all of their products. Here are the phone numbers for each of the restaurants that refuse to tell us the truth!
By David Zinczenko, with Matt Goulding
2008 Men's Health. All Rights Reserved.
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Sunday, August 10, 2008
Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony Picture ( Wonderful )
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Thursday, August 7, 2008
Remove unused file to make your windows faster with this Free Software
CCleaner Portable is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. But the best part is that it´s fast (normally taking less that a second to run) and FREE! :)
Cleans the following:
Notes for Portable version.
Start the CCleaner by double-clicking on portable.exe instead of CCleaner.exe and use CCleaner normally.
Known limitations:
CCleaner Portable requires administrator or power user rights to run. These rights are needed for registering the required CCleaner components.
CCleaner Portable Settings:
To change CCleaner Portable Settings you need to manually edit the values in portable.ini under [PORTABLE] section.
Since version 1.37 CCleaner supports loading/saving settings to an INI file (CCleaner.ini) rather than the registry. CCleaner Portable uses this option and it should not be disabled. CCleaner settings are stored in CCleaner.ini under [Options] section.
What´s New in version 2.10.618:
CCleaner Portable
Cleans the following:
- Internet Explorer: Temporary files, URL history, cookies, Autocomplete form history, index.dat.
- Firefox: Temporary files, URL history, cookies, download history.
- Opera: Temporary files, URL history, cookies.
- Windows: Recycle Bin, Recent Documents, Temporary files and Log files.
- Registry cleaner: Advanced features to remove unused and old entries, including File Extensions, ActiveX Controls, ClassIDs, ProgIDs, Uninstallers, Shared DLLs, Fonts, Help Files, Application Paths, Icons, Invalid Shortcuts and more... also comes with a comprehensive backup feature.
- Third-party applications: Removes temp files and recent file lists (MRUs) from many apps including Media Player, eMule, Kazaa, Google Toolbar, Netscape, MS Office, Nero, Adobe Acrobat, WinRAR, WinAce, WinZip and many more...
- 100% Spyware FREE: This software does NOT contain any Spyware, Adware or Viruses.
Notes for Portable version.
Start the CCleaner by double-clicking on portable.exe instead of CCleaner.exe and use CCleaner normally.
Known limitations:
CCleaner Portable requires administrator or power user rights to run. These rights are needed for registering the required CCleaner components.
CCleaner Portable Settings:
To change CCleaner Portable Settings you need to manually edit the values in portable.ini under [PORTABLE] section.
- DebugMode - Show CCleaner
- Portable debug window. ( 0 - Disabled (default) ; 1 - Enabled )
- CCleanerPath - Full or relative path to folder containing CCleaner files.
- CCommandLine - Add parameters in CCleaner command line.
- IfInstalled - Changes the behaviour when CCleaner is installed on the system. ( 0 - Backup installed CCleaner (default) ; 1 - Run installed CCleaner ; 2 - Error message )
- /DEBUG - Adds /DEBUG in CCleaner command line.
- /AUTO - Adds /AUTO in CCleaner command line.
- /REG - Registers CCleaner component´s and writes settings in registry.
- /UNREG - Unregisters CCleaner component´s and removes CCleaner registry entries. *
- /NOIC - Skip CCleaner installation check.
- /DBG - Shows the CCleaner Portable debug window.
- /FORCE - Starts CCleaner even when there is fatal errors.
- When using /UNREG CCleaner Portable skips the CCleaner installation check.
Since version 1.37 CCleaner supports loading/saving settings to an INI file (CCleaner.ini) rather than the registry. CCleaner Portable uses this option and it should not be disabled. CCleaner settings are stored in CCleaner.ini under [Options] section.
What´s New in version 2.10.618:
- Added Type Library cleaning to Registry Cleaner.
- Improved File Extension scanning in Registry Cleaner.
- Added /SHUTDOWN command-line parameter to shutdown the computer after cleaning. Only works with /AUTO.
- Added Shutdown option to system tray menu.
- Added support for Vista common dialogs.
- Fixed bug in Uninstaller Tool where some items were hidden.
- Fixed multi-monitor issue with dialogs.
- Fixed incompatibility with Windows Search 4.0.
- Added seconds to filename when saving .REG files.
- Improved RegEdit location navigation.
- Improved Google Earth cleaning and detection.
- Memory usage optimizations.
- Minor bug fixes.
CCleaner Portable
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
New Google Box For Offices Can Search 10 Mln Files
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc said on Tuesday it is an offering an upgraded version of the hardware appliance its sells to companies and government organizations for Google-style Web search of office documents.
The Web search leader said the latest version of the Google Search Appliance, a pizza-sized box that holds a self-contained search system for managing an organization's electronic files, can store up to 10 million documents in a single box.
The new product has the same capacity as a previous version that came in a five-box rack. Google already sells a 12-box version of the appliance in a rack the size of a stand-up refrigerator that can search up to 30 million documents.
The appliances contain Google software to power the search services, running on storage hardware from Dell Inc.
Once installed in a network, the appliances help staff find documents in various different corporate store houses, from EMC Corp's Documentum, IBM's FileNet, Open Text's LiveLink and Microsoft Corp's SharePoint.
New features in the latest model include greater encryption powers and the ability for Google Alerts to notify users when new documents are stored on the network by colleagues.
Network administrators will be able to manage Google Search Appliances in 27 languages, adding Turkish, Czech, Vietnamese and Portuguese. The boxes can, in turn, deliver search results to office workers in 40 different languages.
Mountain View, California-based Google does not disclose revenue for search appliances, which are part of its enterprise software and services business aimed at corporate buyers.
Roughly 98 percent of its revenue comes from advertising sold alongside services on Google.com and affiliated sites.
But because Google does not reveal revenue for the business, it is hard to verify its claims to be the market share leader in enterprise, as well as consumer, search.
"We estimate, with obviously imperfect information, that we are the market leader," Matt Glotzbach, product management director for Google Enterprise, said in a phone interview.
Rival providers of search used inside company networks include Microsoft, IBM, and Autonomy of Britain.
source: www.times.com
(Editing by Braden Reddall)
The Web search leader said the latest version of the Google Search Appliance, a pizza-sized box that holds a self-contained search system for managing an organization's electronic files, can store up to 10 million documents in a single box.
The new product has the same capacity as a previous version that came in a five-box rack. Google already sells a 12-box version of the appliance in a rack the size of a stand-up refrigerator that can search up to 30 million documents.
The appliances contain Google software to power the search services, running on storage hardware from Dell Inc
Once installed in a network, the appliances help staff find documents in various different corporate store houses, from EMC Corp's
New features in the latest model include greater encryption powers and the ability for Google Alerts to notify users when new documents are stored on the network by colleagues.
Network administrators will be able to manage Google Search Appliances in 27 languages, adding Turkish, Czech, Vietnamese and Portuguese. The boxes can, in turn, deliver search results to office workers in 40 different languages.
Mountain View, California-based Google does not disclose revenue for search appliances, which are part of its enterprise software and services business aimed at corporate buyers.
Roughly 98 percent of its revenue comes from advertising sold alongside services on Google.com and affiliated sites.
But because Google does not reveal revenue for the business, it is hard to verify its claims to be the market share leader in enterprise, as well as consumer, search.
"We estimate, with obviously imperfect information, that we are the market leader," Matt Glotzbach, product management director for Google Enterprise, said in a phone interview.
Rival providers of search used inside company networks include Microsoft, IBM, and Autonomy
source: www.times.com
(Editing by Braden Reddall)
Monday, August 4, 2008
Breast vs bottle
Health workers are keen to promote the advantages of breastfeeding.
Experts, including the World Health Organization, recommend that a baby is breast fed exclusively for at least the first six months.
However, many women still prefer to use formula milk, and campaigners argue that the government needs to do more to encourage women to breastfeed.
The benefits of breastfeeding include:
The benefits of bottle feeding include:
Others may experience lumps in the breast caused by blocked milk ducts.
Both conditions can be treated, for example, by changing breastfeeding position. Women with severe mastitis may need antibiotics. Although organisations exist to help breastfeeding mothers, many complain that they still do not get enough advice.
They often, for example, experience difficulty weaning babies onto formula milk once the baby is used to breast milk and they have to go back to work.
Women who return to work can continue to breastfeed at night and in the morning while giving their baby formula milk during the day.
However, they will not get as much protection as a baby who is wholly breast fed.
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Experts, including the World Health Organization, recommend that a baby is breast fed exclusively for at least the first six months.
However, many women still prefer to use formula milk, and campaigners argue that the government needs to do more to encourage women to breastfeed.
The benefits of breastfeeding include:
- Nutrition: Breast milk is the ideal food for a baby. It is nutritionally balanced, with the perfect amount of proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins and iron to help the baby to grow.
- Boosting immunity: The baby receives the mother's antibodies to help it fight infection
- Less likelihood that the baby suffers constipation, diarrhoea and wind
- More protection against gastroenteritis, childhood diabetes, allergies like eczema and chest and ear infections
- Convenience: There is no need to get up in the night to sterilise bottles. Breast milk is always at the right temperature, is available immediately, is easy for the baby to digest, contains all the nutrients the baby needs and is free
- Reduction in the risk of the mother contracting early breast or ovarian cancer and fracturing her hips
- A speedier return to the pre-pregnancy figure for the mother as breastfeeding helps the womb to contract and also burns up calories
The benefits of bottle feeding include:
- Convenience: The mother does not have to do all the feeding and can leave the baby with others while she catches up on sleep or gets a break from the baby. Breastfeeding mothers can express their milk into a bottle to give themselves a break, but many find this uncomfortable
- Less anxiety: The mother can measure how much milk the baby is taking in, although breastfeeding mothers can tell if their baby is not getting enough milk through monitoring their weight gain
- More sleep: Formula milk is more difficult to digest for the baby so they tend to sleep longer.
- Comfort: If a breastfeeding mother misses or delays a feed, her breasts may overfill and become painful and start leaking milk.
Others may experience lumps in the breast caused by blocked milk ducts.
Both conditions can be treated, for example, by changing breastfeeding position. Women with severe mastitis may need antibiotics. Although organisations exist to help breastfeeding mothers, many complain that they still do not get enough advice.
They often, for example, experience difficulty weaning babies onto formula milk once the baby is used to breast milk and they have to go back to work.
Women who return to work can continue to breastfeed at night and in the morning while giving their baby formula milk during the day.
However, they will not get as much protection as a baby who is wholly breast fed.
source : bbc
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Sunday, August 3, 2008
F1 RESULT GRAND PRIX OF HUNGARY 2008
F1 RESULT GRAND PRIX OF HUNGARY 2008
1. Heikki Kovalainen (FIN) Vodafone McLaren Mercedes
2. Timo Glock (GER) Panasonic Toyota Racing
3. Kimi Raikkonen (FIN) Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro
4. Fernando Alonso (ESP) ING Renault F1 Team
5. Lewis Hamilton (GBR) Vodafone McLaren Mercedes
6. Nelson Piquet (BRA) ING Renault F1 Team
7. Jarno Trulli (ITA) Panasonic Toyota Racing
8. Robert Kubica (POL) BMW Sauber F1 Team
9. Mark Webber (AUS) Red Bull Racing
10. Nick Heidfeld (GER) BMW Sauber F1 Team
11. David Coulthard (GBR) Red Bull Racing
12. Jenson Button (GBR) Honda Racing F1 Team
13. Kazuki Nakajima (JPN) AT&T Williams
14. Nico Rosberg (GER) AT&T Williams
15. Giancarlo Fisichella (ITA) Force India F1 Team
16. Rubens Barrichello (BRA) Honda Racing F1 Team
17. Felipe Massa (BRA) Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro
18. Sebastian Bourdais (FRA) Scuderia Toro Rosso
Not Classified:
20 Adrian Sutil (GER)Force India F1 Team
15 Sebastian Vettel (GER)Scuderia Toro Rosso
1. Heikki Kovalainen (FIN) Vodafone McLaren Mercedes
2. Timo Glock (GER) Panasonic Toyota Racing
3. Kimi Raikkonen (FIN) Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro
4. Fernando Alonso (ESP) ING Renault F1 Team
5. Lewis Hamilton (GBR) Vodafone McLaren Mercedes
6. Nelson Piquet (BRA) ING Renault F1 Team
7. Jarno Trulli (ITA) Panasonic Toyota Racing
8. Robert Kubica (POL) BMW Sauber F1 Team
9. Mark Webber (AUS) Red Bull Racing
10. Nick Heidfeld (GER) BMW Sauber F1 Team
11. David Coulthard (GBR) Red Bull Racing
12. Jenson Button (GBR) Honda Racing F1 Team
13. Kazuki Nakajima (JPN) AT&T Williams
14. Nico Rosberg (GER) AT&T Williams
15. Giancarlo Fisichella (ITA) Force India F1 Team
16. Rubens Barrichello (BRA) Honda Racing F1 Team
17. Felipe Massa (BRA) Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro
18. Sebastian Bourdais (FRA) Scuderia Toro Rosso
Not Classified:
20 Adrian Sutil (GER)Force India F1 Team
15 Sebastian Vettel (GER)Scuderia Toro Rosso
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