Do booze and barbells mix? How does a stint on the Stairmaster with a vodka chaser sound? We ask these questions after coming across two recent stories about the blending of alcohol—specifically vodka—with physical fitness. A trend in the making?
That old 2-liter ginger ale bottle you just took to the recycling center could end up as part of the shirt on your back. A company called 8bottles turns eight PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottles into a handsome 100% Post-Consumer polo shirt.
Scientists have discovered that zapping potatoes with electricity gives the vegetable new life and vitality. In short, it makes them more nutritious. In a study using electric and ultrasound treatments, antioxidant levels increased by up to 60 percent.
The people from Sunkist have launched a campaign which attempts to position fresh lemons as an alternative—or s’alternative, as they put it—to the salt shaker. To publicize its marketing effort, the grower has created the S’alternative Recipe Contest.
There’s a company that lets you print your company name, logo or message on fresh ripe fruit that can be sent to customers or prospects. It’s certainly a compelling way to say “You’re the apple of my eye,” and it can make eating fruit more fun for kids.
The federal government is backing plans to halt the spread of the ravenous and invasive lionfish, a species that has spread throughout the Caribbean and up and down the East Coast of the U.S. in recent years. The solution: we need to start eating it.
For those of us who are tired of handing over our credit card to a stranger, there’s a new way to pay the tab at a restaurant or bar. The app is being hailed as a secure, cost-efficient way for consumers to ante up without letting go of that card.
If the results of a new School Nutrition Association survey of 538 school districts across the nation are any indication, school districts are heeding Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! call to action and working to make school lunches healthier.
Campers at the Kids Culinary Academy of Vermont want to go way beyond s’mores and hot dogs roasted over an open fire. Kids today see cooking as a way to become a star, rather than achieving that status by becoming an actor or rock singer.
It’s been revealed that Black Sabbath rocker Ozzie Osbourne’s dressing room requests for his upcoming concert in Russia include such wild and outrageous stuff as cherries, raspberries, black currant (that’s more like it…sort of), and blackberries.
