5 Foods to Avoid at Fast Food Restaurants

Okay, we all do it once in awhile. You know when you are in a rush or the kids want to visit the playground. We all end up going to fast food joints every now and then no matter how hard we try to avoid it. Here are 5 foods to avoid when you do visit.

1. McDonalds: Double Quarter Pounder® with Cheese++ (740 Calories, 42g Fat, 1380mg Sodium)
2. Burger King: Double Whopper w/ Cheese (990 Calories, 64g Fat, 1520mg Sodium)
3. Carl's Jr: Guacamole Bacon Six Dollar Burger (1140 Calories, 85g Fat, 2010mg Sodium)
4. Wendy's: 1/2 lb Double with Cheese (710 Calories, 40g Fat, 1440mg Sodium)
5. Subway: 12" Meatball Marinara (1120 Calories, 48g Fat, 3080mg Sodium)

Great Tips on Food Photography

Since I visit a lot of site on food like biggestmenu.com and yelp.com, I often find myself taking pictures of food. Here is a great link on food photography.

Seven Ways to Lower Cholesterol

1. Eat a bowl of oatmeal every morning. Doing this for 8 weeks straight can reduce cholesterol by as much as 10%.

2. Eat soy for lunch. Long thought to have cholesterol-lowering effects, soy is good and cheap, and can help lower cholesterol by 20%.

3. Eat garlic for dinner.

4. Eat half an onion a day. Your co-workers might not like it, but many studies have shown that onion as well as garlic help reduces cholesterol.

5. Use olive oil.

6. Eat an apple a day.

7. Eat fish with omega-3 acids. Omega-3 fatty acids are noted for their triglyceride-lowering effect, but they also help the heart in other ways such as reducing blood pressure and the risk of blood clots.

Clayton Kershaw on the Front Page of Yahoo

Dodgers young 19 year old phenom made it the front page of Yahoo. I thought that was pretty cool. Check out his pitch.

I Laughed so Hard, Tears Came Out

Airborne Lawsuit

A Settlement has been proposed in a class action lawsuit that alleges that Airborne Health, Inc. (and other defendants) (“Airborne”) falsely advertised certain therapeutic properties, including the ability to cure or prevent the common cold, when marketing products under the Airborne brand name, as listed below. Defendants deny any wrongdoing or illegal conduct but have agreed to settle the litigation. This website provides information on the lawsuit and proposed Settlement.

Click here to get your refund

You know the weirdest part of all this? I really thought it worked. There were numerous times where I thought I was getting sick, so I took it and actually got better. Maybe it's just a mind thing.

College Tuition

My wife and I just had our first daughter about two months ago. At the same time I read that Stanford is now offering free tuition for any students whose family makes less than $100,000. So that got me thinking, how much will it cost to send my 2 month old daughter to college?. After some digging around, I found a website that claims it will cost me over $300,000 dollars to put my daughter through a 4 year college that cost $25,000 now. In addition I will need to put in about $600 dollars a month in order to be able to pay for 100% of it. I was shocked! I thought that number couldn't be right, but after looking at it closely, if you assume the rise in cost of college education in the past 5 years, it would be about that amount in 18 years. In 2006 it rose about 6% which far outpaced inflation. So I was wondering could it keep at this rate forever? Or will it hit a wall and stop increasing?